Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though he wore the conventional double-thickness, sterilized gauze mask, he breathed heavily through it. The bacteria count in the air increased fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains of staph are the deadliest bacteria now plaguing hospitals in the U.S. and all other countries where modern, miracle-drug medicine is practiced...
...been bothered for months with skin abscesses that would not heal despite treatment with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (the commonest germ in wounds and boils) that resists the killing powers of penicillin and many other drugs. Fortunately, the strain was sensitive to the antibiotic vancomycin, and the girls were soon on the mend. But where had they picked up the infection...
...insects, or "islands" of algae and fungi. Often, the walls were slimy. Most had a stale odor, and "a few were literally foul." When the bacteriologists went to work, they found that in 22% of the carafes the water contained colon bacilli, and no fewer than 69% held Staphylococcus aureus-including at least one of the deadly, penicillin-resistant strains that have caused wholesale epidemics and killed babies in some hospital nurseries (TIME, March...
...diarrhea that strikes in major tourist centers. His research team based its findings mainly on the experience of travelers to Europe and Mexico, found that amoebae and the most-feared bacteria could be eliminated as suspects. A probable culprit in many cases: microbes of the common genus Staphylococcus, which may multiply in food kept under poor refrigeration and prepared under unsanitary conditions-but this usually has nothing to do with fecal contamination of food and water. In other cases, overeating and consumption of highly spiced or oily foods may be to blame...
...years ago, to care for the needy ill of the mushrooming oil-rich city and surrounding Harris County, $12 million was set aside. It was plain that Jefferson Davis Hospital was hopelessly inadequate. Overcrowding was rated a major factor this year in the deaths of 18 babies in a staphylococcus epidemic (TIME. March 31). Still no hospital was in sight...