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Word: vancomycins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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...enfeebled are especially subject to "staph" infections; many pneumonia deaths are suspected (though not yet proved) to have been caused by staph. To fight the guilty strains of germs-which are resistant to most widely used antibiotics-doctors are trying two new antibiotics not yet released for general use, vancomycin and one developed in Japan called kanamycin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Staph of Death (Cont'd.) | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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