A staphylococcal aggressin

Report on a Case of Staphylococcal Pneumonia with Staphylococcal Septicæmia

PERSONAL HISTORY. IHE patient, a female, aged 10 years, weighing 5 st. 6 lb., height 4 ft. 10 in., has a congenital heart lesion, recognised since birth and described below. No disease in infancy. Chicken-pox. Measles and lobar pneumonia (consolidation both sides)' all in sixth year. Lobar pneumonia again at seven years. Influenza age 8; nil since, apart from a mild catarrhal cold with no tempe...

Evidence of a staphylococcal neurotoxin.

It is evident that the addition of 15 mg NaCl per ml of basal medium, with L. leichmannii (strain ATCC 7830) as the test organism, gave rise to a valid sloperatio assay at higher concentrations of vitamin Bu. In the case of one of the samples studied, this alteration was the means of obtaining results in statistical agreement with those obtained using L. leichmannii (strain ATCC 4797) and in go...

A case of staphylococcal endocarditis.

Introduction Staphylococcal endocarditis has a very high mortality rate3' 5 and difficulties in its therapy have not been lessened by the emergence of strains of the organism resistant to the commonly used antibiotics. Recently, encouraging reports of the use of vancomycin in resistant staphylococcal infections have appeared." 2, 4 Since the number of patients treated is small, the following ca...

A Case of Staphylococcal Polyarthritis

Staphylococcal Pneumonia

STAPHYLOCOCCAI pneumonia is a well-recognised complication of epidemic influenza. Chickering and Park (1919) described 155 cases, and more recently 66 cases were recorded by Finland, Peterson, and Strauss (1942). Smaller series have also been reported, and both the virus influenza A and the staphylococcus were isolated from patients by Scadding (1937) and Michael (1942). It can also occur as a ...