Word: gonococci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they examined over a thousand inmates of New York State's model Attica Prison. Of these, 392 had once had gonorrhea. All had been discharged by doctors as cured. When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci...
...Rochester scientists urged that physicians should remember two vital facts: 1) gonococci quickly develop resistance to sulfanilamide and its relative sulfapyridine, even when these drugs are given in increasing amounts; 2) only sure test of the presence of tricky gonococci is careful laboratory culture...
That soap and hot water will kill pneumococci, streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Last week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York University told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine from virus and soap solution...