Word: staphylococcus
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...sooner had the A.M.A. issued the ominous warning than its timeliness was grimly proved. Warning: there is growing danger of in-hospital epidemics caused by Staphylococcus aureus, a common germ some of whose strains are resistant to most antibiotics (TIME, March 24). Proof: the belatedly disclosed deaths since Dec. 1 of 16 babies in Houston's Jefferson Davis Hospital (run by the city and Harris County). So far this year, 81 babies were infected; in February alone, 21 mothers also caught the infection...
Sulfa drugs and antibiotics have worked miracles against most kinds of germs, but with one species, Staphylococcus aureus, their too-liberal use has backfired. Last week US. physicians were pondering massive evidence in the A.M.A. Journal showing that 1) infections acquired in hospitals are a deadly and growing peril; and 2) antiseptic methods are as important as ever...
...deadly, have been tamed. Part of it is that physicians, surgeons and hospital staffs have become too confident: relying on their antibiotics, they are careless about general cleanliness and even surgical asepsis (TIME, April 1). But most of the trouble is in the nature of the beast itself: Staphylococcus aureus has the greatest capacity of any known disease germ for developing strains that are resistant to one antibiotic after another...
Ready for business. Pharmacist Feuillet handed his formula to a pharmaceutical firm for production. He called the drug Stalinon (for some of the ingredients, not for Joe), let it be known that the concoction, to be taken orally, was deadly to staphylococcus infections, mortal to boils and sties, extremely unfriendly to acne. In January 1954 thousands of boxes of Stalinon went to drugstores all over France and French North Africa...
Morris, in his investigation, obtained trays of cut chicken not used for the meal and had them crushed. A smear test revealed the presence of "staphylococcus organisms, which generate a poisonous toxin when they are left in warm...