Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back in 1928 Alexander Fleming, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S.,* taught bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. In his small, old-fashioned laboratory, he grew staphylococci in petri plates (flat glass culture dishes). One day he found that mold had spoiled one of his cultures. Staphylococcus grew on only half of the plate. A blue-green mold spotted, but did not cover, the other half...
...rush began last fortnight when a distraught father phoned the city editor of the New York Journal-American, begged him to help get some penicillin for his baby daughter Patricia, who was dying of a staphylococcus blood infection. The city editor made the most of a journalistic opportunity, persuaded an official of WPB, which controls the minuscule U.S. supply of penicillin, to release some for Patricia. Four hours later a Journal-American car, with a convoy of screaming police sirens, drove up to the hospital with ,the drug. Next morning Patricia was much better...
...send me a little of its precious life-saving medicine so that I may have a fighting chance? I am engaged to marry a fine man now serving in the U.S. Army." But Marie got no penicillin: doctors held that it could not save her because her hemolytic staphylococcus infection had affected the heart...
...cureall, penicillin has so far been uSed to treat only a limited group of infections: staphylococcus aureus (causing bone infections, cellulitis, face carbuncles, certain types of pneumonia), hemolytic streptococcus, gonorrhea...
...Science last week Maurice Landy and coworkers of the Army Medical School in Washington announced that they had used the test with positive results: a resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (pus bacteria) was definitely making more PAB than its sulfa-susceptible twin. They attributed its sulfa-resistance to the PAB -possibly a big step forward in chemotherapy...