Word: micrococcus
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...Germany this year a "super-microscope" of this sort was announced (TIME, June 6). In the issue of the British journal Nature which reached the U. S. last week was a picture taken by Professor L. C. Martin of London's Imperial College which showed a germ called Micrococcus flavus magnified 16,000 times. Last week in Richmond, Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Manufacturing Co. showed fluorescent-screen projections, made with his electron microscope, of tungsten crystals in which the molecules themselves could be distinguished in the molecular structure...
...fellow members of Mexico's ruling National Revolutionary Party were already eagerly discussing a temporary President while Cardenas took a long rest somewhere out of Mexico. Boning up on Malta fever. Cardenas' enemies found that it is properly called undulant fever, and that its germ, the Micrococcus melitensis, can be got from drinking raw milk or even from patting diseased cattle. Chances against Cardenas dying of it were 50-to-1 but he might be sick with it for from four months to two years, and there was nothing much to be done about it. except cold packs...
...which the Chemical Foundation gave Johns Hopkins for a five-year investigation of the Common Cold (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928), last week produced three clear facts: 1) colds are not the result of chemical changes in the body as has been theorized; 2) colds are not directly caused by micrococcus coryza described by Dr. John Arthur Franklin Pfeiffer of Baltimore (TIME, June 23), or by any other visible germ; 3) colds are apparently caused by a virus, which the finest of filters cannot trap and whose source has not yet been ascertained...
...Francis, officer of the U. S. Public Health Service, caught the disease while studying its microorganism, Micrococcus melitensis. It is the second febrile disease he has contracted in the public health service. The other was rabbit fever, which hunters, butchers and furriers are apt to catch from infected rabbits (TIME, June 18 & Nov. 26). Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif., where in 1910 it was first identified. Doctors, however, prefer to call it Francis Disease, in honor of Dr. Francis, who isolated the germ (Bacterium tularense) to his own harm, malaise and inconvenience...
Lobular pneumonia may be contracted through the air passages or by invasion through the blood system of many different kinds of germ?Micrococcus lanceolatus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, the tubercle bacillus, occasionally even the glanders bacillus, actinomyces (rayed fungoid), oidiomyces (egg-shaped fungoid...
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