Word: diphtheria
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...five, Tom caught diphtheria. "He practically died...
Since then, "guided and directed mutation with precisely predictable features" has produced bacteria that mutate after infection with viruses. Formerly harmless strains of diphtheria bacilli will, after viral infection, secrete the poison of virulent diphtheria. Because the bacterial lines breed true, said Dr. Horsfall, both these are cases of "infective heredity" induced by environmental factors...
...medicine's attention were the bacteria, hulking big microbes (by comparison with viruses) that generally attack by producing systemic poisons rather than by invading the body's cells. Antibiotics have wiped out or brought under control virtually all the major bacterial diseases: tuberculosis, some forms of pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, gonorrhea, syphilis and most of the other illnesses that stir memories of Paul de Kruif's heroic Microbe Hunters...
...North Korean refugees, the population of 14,000 on the islands was so near starvation that some were surviving by eating seaweed and small crabs. Infant mortality was 40%. Not long after he arrived, Moffett saw islanders bury in the beach 53 children who had died of diphtheria. Rice, barley, cabbage and sweet potatoes could be grown only four months a year. For the remaining eight months, the islands depended on the catch brought back by 23 fishing boats...
...study the broad topic of oxidative phosphorylation. Of particular interest to him is ATP, the major energy-storing compound of the living cell. ATP is involved in the cytochrome oxidizing processes mentioned above. Thus, Pappenheimer's work at Amsterdam will probably yield additional information concerning his old friend, diphtheria toxin...