Word: terramycin
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...stool specimens for laboratory analysis: as many as 9,000 may be needed over a period of six months. Only then will it be known which workers are clear of amoebae. For the estimated 700 who will get positive reports, there will be immediate free treatment with fumagillin or terramycin. At full cost, the program would run to $77,000, but manufacturers will supply about $30,000 worth of drugs free...
...most valuable and widely used antibiotics can cause death if the physician employing them is not careful, warned the Mayo Clinic's Dr. P. T. Sloss. The trouble is most likely to develop on the fourth day of treatment with aureomycin or terramycin. The drugs kill many of the bacteria normally found in the intestine, and give a chance for resistant strains of staphylococci to multiply and poison the system. In such cases (so far, rare), the patient gets symptoms like those of cholera, and will die in a day or two, Dr. Sloss said, unless the drugs...
...antagonism between the drugs as there are of cooperation. By & large, they report, any two of four antibiotics in Group I-penicillin, streptomycin, bacitracin and neomycin-work well together. Except in rare cases, however, none of these four should be used with an antibiotic from Group II: aureomycin, Chloromycetin, terramycin. And while no great harm may come of combining two antibiotics within Group II, no real advantage can be expected either; the combination simply works like a bigger dose of either drug alone...
...milk itself was no great problem. Pfizer's pigmen compounded it scientifically of skimmed cow's milk, fat (such as corn oil), assorted minerals and vitamins, and of course, terramycin. But when they tried to feed "Terralac" to newborn pigs In a sort of incubator, they ran into problems of pig psychology...
Sound Sleepers. The Pfizer Co.'s interest in livestock began with the discovery that its antibiotic, terramycin, when mixed with the feed, increases the growth rate of pigs. At first the Pfizer pigmen tried feeding terramycin to the brood sow, in hopes that some of the strengthening drug would filter down in her milk. This proved impractical; it took too much terramycin. Then Pfizer decided to take the piglets away from their mothers at the age of two days and raise them on synthetic sow's milk spiked with terramycin...