Word: salmonella
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...until Mass General Bacteriologist Lawrence J. Kunz examined some of the children's stool specimens did he discover the alarming and unexpected reason: the relatively uncommon bacterium Salmonella cubana...
Detection of any kind of highly infectious Salmonella* anywhere in the U.S.-particularly in a hospital-is enough to set disease detectives working overtime. Salmonellosis is a particularly severe diarrhea, often accompanied by vomiting, acute cramps and fever; and it can be fatal to feeble youngsters and oldsters. In the Boston case, it fell to Pediatrician David J. Lang to find out whatdunit. From case records, Dr. Lang concluded that while some of the children had been infected with S. cubana when they entered the hospital, others had picked up the infection there. That made the job tougher. Dr. Lang...
...Food and Drug Administration proposed, and the Borden Foods Co. agreed last week that all stocks of the company's powdered-milk product, Starlac, were to be recalled from stores. Reason: FDA microbiologists had found that some samples of Starlac contained salmonella bacteria, which can cause severe diarrheal disease. No cases of salmonellosis have yet been attributed to Starlac, but neither the FDA nor Borden was taking chances. The company also recalled powdered Frosted Shakes, packaged in the Starlac plant...
Starlac was not the first dried-milk product in which salmonella bacilli have been detected. Since the U.S. Public Health Service traced a 1965 outbreak of salmonellosis to powdered milk from a Midwestern processor, the FDA has been systematically examining the plants of 27 manufacturers of instant nonfat dried milk...
Contagious Cuddling. The germs in question comprise the bacteria Shigella and Salmonella along with Escherichia coli, a common cause of infant diarrhea. Since these organisms reproduce slowly by cell division, microbiologists used to think that it would take a long time for drug-resistant strains to multiply and populate a hospital. Not so, indicates recent research. In addition to cell divi sion, these bacteria have a second way of passing on their "R factor" (drug resistance). When they cuddle up close to other bacteria, the R factor is transmitted by means of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), which bears chemical instructions...