Word: pneumococcus
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...streptococcic infections of various types, including streptococcic septicemia (blood poisoning), streptococcic sore throat, peritonitis, puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), etc. Meningitis, gonorrhea and certain types of pneumonia have also been conquered. So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus. ¶ Although there have been only ten fatalities in 4,000 cases,** with "no correlation between these reactions and the dosage," sulfanilamide often produces such unpleasant by-effects as nausea and vomiting, dizziness, rash and fever. These disappear with the disease...
Usual cause of lobar pneumonia is a pneumococcus, of which there are 32 types. Of those most studied...
...Sutliff first will present the problem, which he describes as follows: "The newer studies of lobar pneumonia have demonstrated something of the chemical constitution of the bacterium known as the pneumococcus which causes the disease. The organism consists of a proteim center and a capsule or outer coat that contains a carbohydrate. Although the pneumococci are otherwise very similar they differ in the exact composition in their capsules. It is possible to differentiate promptly 22 fairly common varieties that may cause the disease, lobar pneumonia...
Died. Keith Preston, 42, able colyumist of the Chicago Daily News; of pneumococcus meningitis; in Evanston...
Zeiss microscope makers of Jena showed a cinema reel of unicellular life-isolated bacterium pneumococcus (pneumonia), bacterium streptococcus (pus), saccharomyces (yeast). It is possible to infect and kill an animal with a single germ. Such a germ proliferates to form a colony...