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According to the MDPH, Neisseria meningitidis, the bacteria that causes meningococcal meningitis, is spread through saliva during kissing, sharing of food, drinks or cigarettes, and sneezing or coughing...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Plasmodium falciparum. Staphylococcus aureus. Streptococcus pneumoniae. Enterococcus faecium. Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The list of microbial scourges that have developed immunity to one or more of the drugs used to treat them is growing ever longer, and in a number of cases physicians are running out of options. In U.S. hospitals, more than 20% of all enterococcus infections, which include infections of the gastrointestinal tract, heart valve and blood, are now resistant to vancomycin, for many years the antibiotic of last resort. Even more worrisome, insensitivity to vancomycin--which nurses and physicians in intensive-care units refer...
Although meningitis can result from infection by any of several different viruses and bacteria, the most virulent form is caused by the meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis. This comes in four different breeds known as types A, B, C and D, only one of which is usually implicated in an epidemic. But Brazilian microbiologists believe that types A and C are rampaging simultaneously in the current outbreak, and doctors favor administering vaccines against both in a single inoculation...
...Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic. Judging from their work and that of others, penicillin should be highly useful against an impressive array of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (pus formers), Diplococcus pneumoniae (usual germ of lobar pneumonia, often present in cerebrospinal meningitis and septicemia), gonorrhea germs, Neisseria intracellularis (cerebrospinal meningitis), Streptococcus viridans (heart infection), Actinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw of cattle...
Congress last week agreed to inject the U. S. with $3,000,000 this year, $5,000,000 next year and $7,000,000 in 1940 to exterminate the germs which cause syphilis (Treponema pallidum), gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), and the third but least harmful of the major venereal diseases, chancroid (Hemophilus ducreyi). The money is to be allotted to State and city health officials to buy medicines, to pay doctors and clinics for treatment of venereal victims...
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