Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ever since U.S. hospital authorities learned, to their horror, that dangerous, penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus bacteria were floating merrily in supposedly sterile hospital corridors, no nook or cranny has escaped attention from sanitation experts. Faulty air-conditioning systems, surgical masks, dirty mopheads and bedside water carafes have been implicated as germ carriers. In a speech to last week's American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco, Dr. Howard E. Lind of Brookline, Mass. proposed another target for bug hunters: the pillows on patients' beds...
...elder Grueninger said the Medical Center originally diagnosed his son's case as ordinary pneumonia and sent him home. his son returned to the Center one or two days later," according to Mr. Grueninger, he was admitted to the Bent Brigham Hospital, and the diagnosis was changed to staphylococcus...
...Staphylococcus aureus' unpleasant traits is a tendency to develop strains resistant to antibiotics. But antibiotics worked in Nixon's case...
...sick even to cry, the tiny, four-week-old infant lay limply on its bed in a British hospital Tests of blood and pus samples, drawn from an inflamed abscess on the child's right hip, produced a chilling diagnosis: Staphylococcus aureus, of the dreaded "hospital type,"* which is resistant to penicillin and most antibiotics. With little hope of success, physicians administered massive doses of penicillin and streptomycin. Neither worked, and the child hovered near death. Finally, doctors tried an experimental drug, one so new that it still had no name, bore only a laboratory code number...
...confused with a penicillin-sensitive strain of Staphylococcus aureus (Phase Type 53-77) that caused an infection in Vice President Nixon's left knee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...