Word: bacterium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small that it cannot be seen through the most powerful magnification (about 1,500 times), or the right cultures for its food requirements were not found. Germs which will pass through an earthenware filter are called " filterable viruses." Dr. Olitsky previously collaborated in the discovery of the supposed influenza bacterium (TIME, March 17). It is wholly distinct the germ of the common cold...
Tularaemia, a newly discovered disease of man, may be widespread in the United States, according to a recent bulletin of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service. It is caused by the Bacterium tularense, which is transmitted to man by the bite of the blood-sucking fly, bedbug and similar insects from infected rabbits, squirrels and rodents. The disease is seldom fatal to humans, but is accompanied by pains, septic fever lasting from three days to six weeks, prostration, swollen and suppurating lymph glands, and ulcers on the site of the bite, followed by several months...
...discovery" is simply the summarizing of scientific papers published during the past three years by Drs. Frederick L. Gates and Peter K. Olitsky, of the Institute staff. A new microorganism, bacterium pneumosintes, has been isolated from the noses and throats of several patients with influenza, has been independently cultivated, and has produced influenza-like symptoms when injected into rabbits. Numerous other varieties of bacteria, such as Pfeiffer's bacillus, are usually present in these puzzling respiratory diseases, and it is not clear that the new organism is the invariable causal agent of influenza, though it is believed that...
...Never fear, John Bull! Even if the "dry" Bogey-man does get you, it is only half an hour by air from Dover to Calais. And we venture to suggest that France will remain wet, until William Anderson has cut down the last grape vine, and the last yeast bacterium has turned up its toes and died...