Word: staphylococcus
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Biologist Ely nurtured a colony of mixed (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria on sodium phosphate whose phosphorus was radioactive. Next he injected them into the tail veins of rats. Few hours later he analyzed the rats' organs for radioactivity, found it greatest in the liver and the lungs, weakest in the brain. Concluded Ely: "The brain, apparently, has an effective means of preventing bacteria from entering it in large numbers." Further significant conclusions will probably appear as work progresses with this new technique...
...little boy with a terrible staphylococcus infection did not improve under sulfapyridine treatment. Penicillin reduced the infection, brought his temperature down to normal. He later died from a ruptured blood vessel...
...year-old boy "extremely ill" with staphylococcus poisoning of the leg developed a kidney infection. Sulfathiazole did little good. Penicillin relieved his pain, cleared up the infection in a month...
Last week doctors hailed an old conqueror of the dread staphylococcus germ. Considered by some scientists a virus, by others an enzyme, this germ-eater is called bacteriophage. Strains of bacteriophage are found in the human intestinal tract, in urine, pus, blood and sewage. About 25 years ago, bacteriophage was first isolated by a British scientist from a dead germ colony. The mysterious substance that killed the bacteria was able to pass through a fine filter and infect other colonies. Some doctors soon dreamed of it as a universal panacea. (Sinclair Lewis dramatized this hope in his novel Arrowsmith.) Compared...
...York State Medical Society meeting in Buffalo last week, Dr. Ward J. MacNeal of Columbia University told how he had used bacteriophage in treating osteomyelitis (an infection of bone often caused by the staphylococcus), had saved not only limbs, but lives. Dr. MacNeal said that in the last ten years he had given bacteriophage to 500 patients with severe infections, had cured 34%-a high proportion...