Word: streptococcus
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Heart specialists have found rheumatic fever a complicated, baffling disease. Though it is usually preceded by a streptococcus infection (e.g., a "strep" throat, scarlet fever), researchers have not been able to establish the connection between the germ (hemolytic streptococcus) and R.F. It seems to thrive best in crowded slums, but it is not unusually prevalent among Negroes. It is chronically high in sparsely settled Colorado...
Research Mystery. The researchers are up against a deceptive and insidious disease. In its first stage it looks like an ordinary respiratory infection, perhaps a mere sore throat, and is often overlooked or mistaken for another disease. Recent research has shown that the infection is usually group A streptococcus (but not streptococcus of other groups), and occasionally scarlet fever...
...escape. He had just started his tenth when he returned to the U.S. to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He soon became ill with a streptococcus infection which developed into uremia. Gustav Mahler, composer of nine symphonies, returned to Vienna on a stretcher, and died there...
...Come Too. In Philadelphia, eight-year-old streptococcus victim Mary Ann Potter said, "I wouldn't mind dying if only papa would go along with me," then died. Three hours later her father had a fatal heart attack...
...Penicillin, given by injection or by mouth, is effective against pneumococcus pneumonia, streptococcus infections (e.g., childbed fever), pneumococcus and meningococcus meningitis. Penicillin is usually preferred to sulfa drugs in these diseases, since it is more powerful, and less likely than sulfa to cause complications...