Word: streptococci
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Year after year Dr. Rosenow has published painstaking research papers showing how he: 1) invariably finds a certain kind of streptococci in brains and spinal fluid of animal and human poliomyelitis victims; 2) finds the same germs in milk, water and the throats of about 33% of well people during polio epidemics; 3) finds very few of the germs between epidemics; 4) makes a streptococcus serum that protects animals from poliomyelitis...
...which began to save lives so dramatically that the experts dropped everything else to test them out. In 1933, Dr. Fleming himself lent a hand with M & B 693, also known as sulfapyridine. The sulfas almost seemed to be the dream drugs he had looked for. They stopped deadly streptococci, even cured pneumonia. But the more sulfa drugs were used, the clearer it became that they 1) sometimes delayed healing by irritating wound walls, 2) did not work well in serum or pus. When used internally, they can cause severe, sometimes fatal, toxic reactions (TIME...
...Mice and Men. Then eight mice were inoculated with a deadly strain of streptococci. Says Dr. Florey: "We sat up through the night injecting penicillin every three hours into the treated group [four mice]. I must confess that it was one of the more exciting moments when we found in the morning that all the untreated mice were dead and all the penicillin-treated ones alive." During that historic night, Dr. Fleming's vision turned into a medical reality...
...Propamidine is a new synthetic British antiseptic which attacks streptococci and staphylococci in wounds. Applied in a salve made of vaseline, it makes many wounds sterile in ten days. The salve is irritating to normal skin...
Pasteurization will not satisfy Dr. Soper. If it is careless, tubercle bacilli survive (TIME, Jan. 4). He gives instances when even careful pasteurization (about 144° F. for 30 minutes) did not kill all harmful bacteria. Among those left alive: streptococci involved in some poliomyelitis epidemics, spore-forming organisms (chiefly intestinal bacteria of cattle, capable of causing diarrhea in infants), acidophilus and pneumococci-like organisms...