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These natural transfers can be crucial to the survival of the bacterium. It is through new plasmids, for example, that bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus have become resistant to penicillin. The plasmid acquired by the staph bug contained a gene that directs the production of a penicillinase, an enzyme that cracks apart invading penicillin molecules, making them ineffective. Different plasmids, sometimes passed from one bacterium to another, can order up still another kind of chemical weapon, a so-called restriction enzyme, which can sever the DNA of an invading virus, say, at a predetermined point...
Krause said that analysis of a stool sample 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...
...outbreak. Dr. Louis Gluck, pediatrics professor at the University of California at San Diego and one of the first to report on hexachlorophene's benefits years ago, said: "There's no question about it. The ban on the use of hexachlorophene has resulted in the outbreak of staph...
...were not so sure. Representatives from both agencies and the American Academy of Pediatrics met in Washington to review matters. They reaffirmed the FDA's December position but added a hedge: the cleanser may be temporarily used for bathing if there is a staph outbreak...
Some of those at the meeting suggested that the hospitals themselves were to blame for the staph resurgence. The hospitals, they said, had taken the FDA's warning too literally by completely removing hexachlorophene cleansers from the nursery. The FDA, said a spokesman, only advised doctors and nurses not to wash babies with hexachlorophene; it never told them not to use the cleanser on their own hands...