No abstract

SYNPOSIS One hundred catalase-positive, coagulase-negative, Gram-positive cocci isolated in significant numbers from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections, provisionally subdivided by their sensitivity to novobiocin, were classified according to a slightly modified version of BairdParker's schemes (1965 and 1972). It appeared that strains of Micrococcus were nearly all of subgroup 3, and that these were important pathogens of young women presenting with urinary infections in general practice. All such strains were resistant to novobiocin. Strains of Staphylococcus were heterogeneous, and were found principally in infections arising in hospital, among older people. Most staphylococci were sensitive to novobiocin.It is suggested that it is easy and-sufficiently accurate to separate staphylococci and micrococci isolated from cases of urinary tract infection on the basis of their sensitivity or resistance to novobiocin. The distinction is useful because of its therapeutic and epidemiological significance.

BJomAL 1173 is more confusing than helpful to the family doctor who has to advise the mother on measles vaccination. I have taken part in the Medical Research Council Trial of Vaccination Against Measles.' 2 During the period from 1 February 1964 to 2 June 1964, 39 children in the age group from 8 months to 2 years were vaccinated (22 female and 17 male) with the following vaccines: Nine received vaccine "A" (one subcutaneous injection of 0.5 ml. of live vaccine prepared from the Goffe strain by Wellcome Laboratories, batch M.V. 20.1); 10 received vaccine "B" (one subcutaneous injection of 0.5 ml. of live vaccine prepared from the Schwarz strain by Glaxo Laboratories, batch 18); and 20 received vaccines KA or KB (one intramuscular in ection of 1 ml. of inactivated vaccine K prepared by Pfizer from the Enders-Edmonton strain, batch 6, followed four weeks later by an injection of " A " or " B " live vaccine as above).

No abstract

No abstract