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Clues to a Puzzle. The answer, Dubos concluded, lies in the physicochemical balance of the host. Somehow, his system becomes a more favorable medium for germs to multiply. It is not simply a question of a loss of the host's immunity or an increase in microbial virulence. Dubos...
In the scant hundred years since Pasteur developed the germ theory of disease, medical scientists have concentrated on helping the patient by attacking the germs, first with preventive vaccines, latterly with antibiotics that arrest or alter the course of full-blown disease. Last week, before a packed audience at the...
What started the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Dubos on the new tack was a common and persistent question: Why is it that a man can carry around for years a throatful of disease-causing bacteria without getting sick, and then suddenly come down with a roaring infection caused by...
Acute starvation produces similar susceptibility in humans. So does diabetes. But most victims of diseases contracted under these malign spells recover their resistance to infection when their diet or metabolism is corrected. It may be that even among well-fed and generally healthy individuals, Dr. Dubos suggests, the ability to...
Many Unknowns. Researchers reported many promising new things for the continuing fight against TB: a drug which is related to isoniazid, and looks just as good; a powdered extract of bacilli to make a vaccine which compares with BCG; better understanding of the need for vitamins A and C in...