Word: streptococcus
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...gram of sulfadiazine a day last year protected a quarter of a million Navy men for months from a dangerous streptococcus infection which was going the rounds of the Navy, causing sore throats, scarlet fever, even meningitis. Only about one man in 1,000 had a bad reaction...
...sulfa drug which Professor Raiziss says is even better than Promin, another diaminodiphenylsulfone derivative, hitherto the best anti-t.b. drug. Three good points about Diasone: it is only slightly toxic, therefore can be used in fairly large quantities with safety; it is as good as sulfanilamide in curing streptococcus infections in mice; it is almost as good as sulfadiazine in curing type II pneumonia. The big question: Will Diasone help human patients...
...Major Donald William Ingham of the Medical Service, Camp Crowder, Mo., reported 700 cases of rheumatic fever (heart disease caused by streptococcus infection) at two Army posts. The disease is also frequent in the Navy. Lieut. Colonel Irving Sherwood Wright, chief of medicine, Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., said that rheumatic fever cases should never be returned to duty; they are often germ carriers, always poor risks if put on heavy jobs. Average cost of an Army rheumatic fever case...
...cureall, penicillin has so far been uSed to treat only a limited group of infections: staphylococcus aureus (causing bone infections, cellulitis, face carbuncles, certain types of pneumonia), hemolytic streptococcus, gonorrhea...
...Queens Hospital has been a proving ground for new treatments. Says Dr. Larsen: "The literature and the drug houses often exploit something that eventually proves to be worthless. We were able to publish the first adverse report in America on the uselessness of mercurochrome as a specific cure for streptococcus infections...