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...enemy in this case (as in most U.S. outbreaks of in-hospital infection) were resistant strains of the common Staphylococcus aureus, usually found in boils and infected wounds. Scene of the counterattack was London's huge Hammersmith Hospital. By late 1957 no less than 88% of Staph aureus cultures there were resistant to penicillin, 82% to tetra-cyclihe, and 70% were immune to attack by a combination of the two drugs. Then Dr. Mary Barber, 48, a topflight bedside bacteriologist, and her anti-staph team went into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooling the Hot Staph | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...thickness, sterilized gauze mask, he breathed heavily through it. The bacteria count in the air increased fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains of staph are the deadliest bacteria now plaguing hospitals in the U.S. and all other countries where modern, miracle-drug medicine is practiced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Danger in the Hospital | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

With the wholesale, often haphazard use of antimicrobial drugs (sulfas and antibiotics), easy-to-kill bacteria are becoming rarer, while resistant strains, especially of Staph. aureus, are rampant. As Boston's Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter told the surgeons: "These drugs kill the sissies among the bacteria and leave the toughs." Philadelphia's Dr. Robert I. Wise reported a nationwide eruption of "hot" staph strains since 1950. Doctors and nurses are the greatest menace: in some areas, 67% of them are healthy carriers of hot staph, as against 30% of their patients. By contrast, the rate among people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Danger in the Hospital | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Playmates, the obvious suspects, were exonerated. Checking the parents, the doctors found that the girls' mother was a nurse in a small hospital 100 miles away. And this hospital had had an epidemic of resistant staph just before the girls got their abscesses. Tricky test-tube work showed that the mother was carrying the same resistant staph in her nasal passages. She was a "healthy carrier." More work showed that 43 of 59 patients and staff members also carried staph, mostly in mild form. The mother is now getting a combination of antibiotics in hopes of making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tracking the Staph | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...token cut (to 35) has been made in the number of maternity beds to reduce overcrowding. Three rooms are being readied to replace the lethal nursery. But officials admit that these measures may prove useless: the whole maternity service may have to be moved to a new, clean, staph-free location...

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

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