Word: streptococci
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...population will learn to defeat man's antibiotic weapons. The varieties of bacteria which have not yet shown resistance to antibiotics probably never will learn to do so, said Internist Dowling. These, fortunately, include most of the bacteria which cause acute infections: the pneumococcus, more than half the streptococci, meningococcus, gonococcus and the spirochete of syphilis...
...Rammelkamp's team began this discovery while working at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo., where many cases of rheumatic fever had developed. The researchers started with the fact that about three weeks after the beginning of a strep infection, the victim develops antibodies in his system as the streptococci are disposed...
...worked. When penicillin killed off the streptococci early, rheumatic fever was prevented in almost every case. Dr. Rammelkamp's conclusion: "Since roughly 60% of all strep throats are severe enough to make the patient seek a physician's advice, it is now possible to prevent 60% of rheumatic fever cases...
...higher forms of life. As the walrus has adapted itself to the Arctic and the cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed to the initially hostile environment created by the new drugs. In the last few months, bacteriologists have bred strains of pneumococci, streptococci and other common germs which are practically immune to the sulfa drugs, penicillin...
...respiratory disease which hit the Navy and the Army Air Forces in 1944 failed to respond to the sulfa drugs which had previously been effective against similar infections. Last week a group of Stanford bacteriologists traced the epidemic to a sturdy strain of streptococci which had "become more resistant by mutation...