Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's TB fighters gathered in Manhattan last week for the National Tuberculosis Association's annual convention, it turned out that one of their newest worries is a disease that looks and acts like tuberculosis, but is something else. More disturbing still is the fact that the germ responsible for at least one type of the illness, formerly believed harmless, is now shown to be immune to at least two of the drugs most widely used to combat...
...Johns Hopkins Hospital study revealed that soap is not the pure, clean substance people think it is. Tests of the hospital's own soap showed it contained 3,500,000 germ organisms per cubic centimeter. Contaminating bacteria from staff members' clothing found their way into solutions used for rinsing surgical gloves and instruments. Henceforth, the hospital will sterilize soap containers by steam under pressure and add chemical germicides to rinsing solutions...
Examining the evidence for court-martialing Major Harry Cargill (Richard Kiley) for treason-he had given Communist lectures and broadcasts, had averred that the U.S. used germ warfare-a thoughtful judge advocate (Arthur Kennedy) is made suspicious by the very conclusiveness of the case. There is not only shattering testimony against Cargill; there is his admission of guilt, and refusal to explain his actions. Time Limit! being a thriller, it would be unfair to reveal more than that Cargill had turned traitor from decent motives; had been, indeed, on the horns of a lacerating dilemma...
Despite the "wonder drugs," which kill specific kinds of germs, physicians are still handicapped in starting treatment because in many cases they do not know what kind of germ they are fighting. Hence, they do not know which drug to use. If they take a specimen from a patient, e.g., sputum, spinal fluid, they can grow the bacteria from it and eventually identify them, but this takes about a week. In Atlanta, Bacteriologist Max D. Moody of the U.S. Public Health Service described a method for achieving this result within an hour...
...specimen fluid is smeared on a microscope slide. Then it is covered with a drop of serum (from an animal) containing the antibody which develops when the suspected species of bacteria is present. This serum is tagged with fluorescein, a luminous substance. If the right antibody hits the right germ, the germ starts to glow under the microscope. If the tester has guessed wrong, no glow, and he tries again with other antibodies...