Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just when the adjournment of Congress promised a wide-open campaign trail, Richard Nixon discovered that he was not only running against Jack Kennedy but against a crippling opponent named hemolytic Staphylococcus aureus. A few days after he banged his left knee on an automobile door during his quick campaign trip to Greensboro, N.C., he began to sense that something was wrong. The knee swelled, but instead of going to a doctor, Nixon just bandaged the leg himself. Ten days after the accident he turned himself in to Walter Reed General Hospital for tests. A doctor drained off a sample...
...Staphylococcus aureus' unpleasant traits is a tendency to develop strains resistant to antibiotics. But antibiotics worked in Nixon's case...
...sick even to cry, the tiny, four-week-old infant lay limply on its bed in a British hospital Tests of blood and pus samples, drawn from an inflamed abscess on the child's right hip, produced a chilling diagnosis: Staphylococcus aureus, of the dreaded "hospital type,"* which is resistant to penicillin and most antibiotics. With little hope of success, physicians administered massive doses of penicillin and streptomycin. Neither worked, and the child hovered near death. Finally, doctors tried an experimental drug, one so new that it still had no name, bore only a laboratory code number...
...confused with a penicillin-sensitive strain of Staphylococcus aureus (Phase Type 53-77) that caused an infection in Vice President Nixon's left knee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Chemical companies often call for molds or bacteria to make such things as citric acid for soft drinks. Airplane manufac turers order fungi to test the mildew proofing of their airplanes. Three strains of mutated Staphylococcus aureus, a con tribution from Russia, are used for screen ing anti-cancer drugs...