Word: protozoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth, there was something wrong with her eyes and her head became enlarged. She died in a hospital at the age of one month. Pathologists Abner Wolf and David Cowen could not fix the cause of death, but they found some puzzling little organisms in the brain. They were protozoa, to be sure, but what kind? Not until two years later (1939), when the two doctors had a similar ease and were able to transmit the baby's disease to laboratory mice, could they be sure what it was: toxoplasmosis. The luckless youngster on Eighth Avenue, her illness posthumously...
...should be most obvious in acute cases. But because toxoplasmosis is hard to identify, the patient often does not get the treatment soon enough. Last week Microbiologist Don E. Eyles of the National Institutes of Health reported a hopeful new lead: Daraprim, which has already shown promise against the protozoa of malaria (TIME, Sept. 1), is effective against toxoplasmosis in mice when given with sulfadiazine. Now the trick is to extend the benefits from mice...