Word: staphylococcus
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Although Dr. Kolmer did not make the point, it is ironically true that modern medicine, armed with penicillin and other antibiotics, would have a better than two-to-one chance of saving a patient from the type of infection (Staphylococcus albus) that killed young Coolidge...
...give a chance for resistant strains of staphylococci to multiply and poison the system. In such cases (so far, rare), the patient gets symptoms like those of cholera, and will die in a day or two, Dr. Sloss said, unless the drugs are promptly stopped. Effective drug against the staphylococcus bugs: erythromycin...
Finland said there had been "an appreciable number of fatalities" among patients who become infected with penicillin-resistant germs of the staphylococcus group. Most infections from this germ are minor, however, and cause irritations such as boils...
...drugs, considering the good it does, and it is still enormously effective against some kinds of germs-Dr. Maxwell Finland of Harvard Medical School grants penicillin all that. But, he warned New England colleagues last week, it has lost much of its punch against germs of the staphylococcus group. Reason: it has been too widely used...
...recent series of staphylococcus infections at Boston City Hospital, Dr. Finland found that three times out of four, the germs came of a strain that had learned to defy penicillin. Since many of the patients had never had penicillin before, the resistance had not developed during their treatment; they must have picked up germs already resistant, from other patients who had been dosed with penicillin. Most staphylococcus infections are minor (e.g., boils), but even so, said Dr. Finland, "there was an appreciable number of fatalities among the cases which did not respond to penicillin...