Word: staphylococcus
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...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...
...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...
...Cocoanut Grove fire casualties (TIME, Dec. 7) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Each patient got sulfadiazine to prevent streptococcus infection on burned surfaces and then, if he still had a temperature six days later, intramuscular injections of 5,000 units of penicillin every four hours to prevent staphylococcus infection. It is notable that no patient so treated died of staphylococcus blood poisoning...
...Seems Likely. . . ." Among the first to experiment with penicillin in the U.S. were Drs. Dorothy H. Heilman and Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic. Judging from their work and that of others, penicillin should be highly useful against an impressive array of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (pus formers), Diplococcus pneumoniae (usual germ of lobar pneumonia, often present in cerebrospinal meningitis and septicemia), gonorrhea germs, Neisseria intracellularis (cerebrospinal meningitis), Streptococcus viridans (heart infection), Actinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw of cattle...
...severe cases there is no standard treatment, for every case is individual. Some people, for instance, suffer from a secondary invasion of staphylococcus germs into their broken skin. Others develop various types of inflammation. These conditions should all be treated by a dermatologist with specially compounded lotions and salves, X rays, various fungicides, and-very rarely-with phenol-camphor...