Word: streptomycinate
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Gorini has done extensive investigation of the effect of streptomycin, an important drug on the translation of genetic formation in bacteria. His colleagues believe his findings will lead to new discoveries in the study of disease, since genetic-coding he has studied in backing is essentially the same as that in cells...
...Selman Waksman, 75, Nobel-prizewinning antibiotics pioneer, in Montevideo's American Hospital after removal of a perforated appendix (despite fears of allergy caused by prolonged contact, doctors successfully used streptomycin, which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua...
...chest X ray indicated recent changes in the lungs-but again, nothing definite. This and other hints suggested that the anemia might be complicated by a tuberculous infection. So the doctors at once prescribed vigorous treatment with the most potent combination of anti-tuberculosis drugs: streptomycin, PAS (para-aminosalycylic acid) and isoniazid...
Resistant Strains. One early fear about isoniazid has been justified: from 3% to 6% of new TB cases are caused by isoniazid-resistant bacilli. But the multiplication of these resistant strains can usually be checked by giving isoniazid with a second drug (streptomycin, para-aminosalicylic acid or cycloserine), and occasionally switching the combination...
...research fellows. Drs. Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas Weller. The work was bedeviled by bacteria contaminating the cultures, making them useless before a slow-starting virus multiplied. Virologists began adding antibiotics to their cultures to keep out bacteria; Enders hit upon a particularly successful combination of penicillin and streptomycin. Yet even in uncontaminated cultures, Enders failed to isolate and grow the obstreperous measles virus...