Word: toxin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from one person hospitalized for the sickness showed no signs of staphylococcal food poisoning, a disease that appears one to six hours after ingestion of either improperly refrigerated meat or handlercontaminated milk products. But a stool sample could not reveal staph bacteria, because of the peculiar nature of the toxin...
Isselbacher's research focuses on gastro-intestinal problems, while Pappenheimer is noted for his work in diphtheria toxin research...
...Diphtheria toxin is a bacterial protein which causes a multitude of nasty effects in man. Pappenheimer has headed a project which figured out how it does this," David M. Gill, assistant professor of Biology, said yesterday...
...evil genius could not devise a toxin with more evil properties," Meselson said...
Other doctors, meanwhile, have borrowed a leaf from Coley's book and have been trying, with some success, to awaken sleeping immune systems to combat cancer. The techniques of this approach vary widely. Some doctors still use Coley's bacterial-toxin formula; others inject vaccine made from killed mumps virus and diphtheria bacteria. Many, however, prefer a live-bacteria tuberculosis vaccine called BCG (for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, after the Frenchmen who developed...