Word: meningococcus
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...will learn to defeat man's antibiotic weapons. The varieties of bacteria which have not yet shown resistance to antibiotics probably never will learn to do so, said Internist Dowling. These, fortunately, include most of the bacteria which cause acute infections: the pneumococcus, more than half the streptococci, meningococcus, gonococcus and the spirochete of syphilis...
...meningococcus had passed from the brain covering into the brain itself. Some memory cells may have been destroyed; certainly many were damaged, especially in Carolyn's speech center. When her doctor, William Ranson, asked her how old she was, she answered, "Fourteen." She later explained: "I'd mean to say one thing but say something else, even though I knew I was saying it wrong...
...Penicillin, given by injection or by mouth, is effective against pneumococcus pneumonia, streptococcus infections (e.g., childbed fever), pneumococcus and meningococcus meningitis. Penicillin is usually preferred to sulfa drugs in these diseases, since it is more powerful, and less likely than sulfa to cause complications...
...year-old welder was taken to City Hospital in Mobile last fortnight. Doctors said she had meningococcus meningitis. Promptly the ambulance driver was told to take the patient back where she came from-City Hospital, like all Mobile's six hospitals, did not take contagious cases. When the head of the sick girl's rooming house refused to let her in, the driver shouted: "She lives here and she's dying. She has no other place to go. I'm going to put her in here if I have to call the police...
...cheering fact about meningococcus meningitis was reported from the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. Of 50 men ingitis patients treated with sulfa drugs (TIME, Nov. 30), 48 recovered. The two who died did so almost as soon as they reached the hospital, might have lived if they had been treated soon enough. The death rate from spinal meningitis, like that of cholera or bubonic plague, used to be about 70% of all cases. Anti-meningococcus serum, which came into use about 1907, cut the mortality to around 25%. But in World War I meningitis was the sixth cause...