Word: streptococci
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...Streptococci from unpasteurized milk have caused epidemics of scarlet fever, septic sore throat, dysentery, epidemic ulcer in children, have been involved in infantile paralysis...
...propylene glycol, which is a sort of thin glycerine. Results were much better. Then the researchers found that the propylene glycol itself was a potent germicide. One part of glycol in 2,000,000 parts of air would-within a few seconds-kill concentrations of air-suspended pneumococci, streptococci and other bacteria numbering millions to the cubic foot...
...containing relatively few bacteria." These are soon killed by body tissues, "if given a chance." Infection arises when wounds are washed with soap & water, or flushed with antiseptic. This is "almost sure to introduce many new bacteria, and the entire wound may thus become seeded with infectious organisms." (Streptococci and staphylococci, the British found, are usually spread in the hospital by nurses and doctors who do not use masks, or fail to disinfect their fingers...
...sinuses are useful for: 1) warming up cold air before it reaches the lungs; 2) engulfing bacteria in germ-repelling mucus; 3) acting as a sounding board for the voice. Infections of the sinus mem branes are caused by a number of bacteria, including the staphylococci, streptococci, pneumococci...
Gramicidin. Three years ago, Dr. Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute discovered a germ-killer brewed by bacteria that live in the soil (TIME, April 15, 1940). A product of chemical warfare between germs, the brew, called gramicidin, overcomes certain streptococci, staphylococci, pneumococci. In tests on animals and humans it is from 1,000 to 100,000 times as strong as sulfanilamide in healing local infections. One-millionth of a teaspoonful, as much as a drop of mist, is enough to protect a mouse from 10,000 fatal doses of pneumococci...