Word: streptococci
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disease is not caused directly by streptococci but seems to be an allergic response to their activity. After one attack, a patient is not immunized, but grows more susceptible. Afterwards, any slight streptococcal infection may bring on a new bout of fever...
...fail was described in the British Lancet last month by Professor Howard Walter Florey and colleagues of Oxford.+ The healing principle, called penicillin, is extracted from the velvety-green Penicillium notatum, a relative of the cheese mold. Although it does not kill germs, the mold stops the growth of streptococci and staphylococci with a power "as great or greater than that of the most powerful antiseptics known." Once the germs are checked, the body's white blood cells finish them...
Anthrax bacilli are seen to be joined at the ends by curious disklike couplings. Strings of streptococci are held together by outer membranes which look like sausage casings...
...Emmet Kennard Knott, a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer, began to experiment with the effect of ultraviolet rays on the blood of dogs. In a local veterinary hospital he infected dogs with streptococci and staphylococci, withdrew a large amount of blood from their veins, irradiated it under an ultraviolet lamp, and put it back in circulation. Theoretically, the rays should have killed the germs. Instead, they killed the dogs...
That soap and hot water will kill pneumococci, streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Last week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York University told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine from virus and soap solution...