Word: strepping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many patients' livers are affected, and one-third of mono sufferers have strep throat as well, according to Rosenthal...
...some reason, the people at UHS couldn't put it all together, that I had mono, even though my friends all told me I did," Harkavy says. "The nurse practitioners kept thinking I had strep throat. I told [them] I did not have strep. I had a million strep tests, but [they] didn't give me mono tests...
Rosenthal says testing for strep throat is actually the proper first step, as nearly one out of three mono sufferers also have strep throat...
Even such seemingly prosaic but once deadly infections as staph and strep have become much harder to treat as they've acquired resistance to many standard antibiotics. Both microbes are commonly transmitted from patient to patient in the cleanest of hospitals, and they are usually cured routinely. But one strain of hospital-dwelling staph can now be treated with only a single antibiotic -- and public health officials have no doubt that the germ will soon become impervious to that one too. Hospitals could become very dangerous places to go -- and even more so if strep also develops universal resistance...
...medicine's worst nightmares is the development of a drug-resistant strain of severe invasive strep A, the infamous flesh-eating bacteria. What appears to make this variant of strep such a quick and vicious killer is that the bacterium itself is infected with a virus, which spurs the germ to produce especially powerful toxins. (It was severe, invasive strep A that killed Muppeteer Jim Henson in 1990.) If strep A is on the rise, as some believe, it will be dosed with antibiotics, and may well become resistant to some or all of the drugs...