Word: hemophilus
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...Says M.I.T. Molecular Biologist Malcolm Gefter: "Today, when a vaccine doesn't elicit a protective response, it is possible to detect what is or is not working -- the B cells, the T cells, the lymphokines, whatever." Scientists can then "fix" the vaccine. For example, the 1985 vaccine against Hemophilus influenzae Type B, which causes bacterial meningitis, was only partially effective; although it protected older children, it did not work for babies under two years, who are most at risk. The antigen used to make the original vaccine has been re- engineered to make it more potent, and the new vaccine...
Arber's theories were verified by Smith, 47, a former naval medical officer and member of the U.S. Public Health Service who turned to genetic research. In 1970 Smith published two classic papers that described his discovery of a restriction enzyme produced by the bacterium Hemophilus influenzae and the way it worked...
...more. Four years of war had left much of the world ripe for all sorts of epidemics, and many varieties of pneumonia-causing bacteria were pullulating. So was Pfeiffer's bacillus, which had been mistakenly identified in 1892-93 as the cause of influenza and therefore named Hemophilus influenzae. There is no doubt that among the millions who fell prey to the virus, many were simultaneously attacked by this and other bacteria...
...just about the best drug against psittacosis ("parrot fever"), of which there has been a recent median of 60 U.S. cases a year; against typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, a total of 484 cases; murine typhus, 33 cases; Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 263 cases; one form of meningitis caused by Hemophilus bacilli, exact number of cases not known, but probably less than...
...Alexander developed her serum in 1938. It is made by injecting rabbits with Hemophilus Infiuenzae (bacteria responsible for the disease), then making an extract of the rabbit's blood...