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Thomas J. Silhavy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Editorial and Policy Changes for 2012
Journal of Bacteriology, 2011Co-Authors: Thomas J. SilhavyAbstract:The first issue of the Journal of Bacteriology was published in January 1916. It was established as the official organ of the Society of American Bacteriologists (now the American Society for Microbiology), “devoted to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in regard to the bacteria and
Andrew Jermy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Medical Research: Pitching the big tent of modern microbiology
Nature, 2017Co-Authors: Andrew JermyAbstract:Andrew Jermy explores the work of a Bacteriologist who championed basic research and reproducibility.
Kathryn Hillier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Babies and bacteria: phage typing, Bacteriologists, and the birth of infection control.
Bulletin of the history of medicine, 2006Co-Authors: Kathryn HillierAbstract:During the 1950s, Staphylococcusaureus became a major source of hospital infections and death, particularly in neonates. This situation was further complicated by the fact that Staphylococcus quickly gained resistance to most antibiotics. Controlling these infections was a pressing concern for hospital workers, especially Bacteriologists who tackled it through the use of a new epidemiologic tool: phage typing. This article argues that during the mid- to late 1950s a series of staphylococcal hospital and nursery epidemics united phage typers, brought international recognition to the usefulness of their technique, and, in the process, contributed to the establishment of the new field of infection control. Through the use of this new tool, phage typers established themselves as experts in infection control and, in some places, became essential members of newly formed infection-control committees. The nursery epidemics represent a particularly important test for phage typing and infection control, for this staphylococcal strain (80/81) was especially virulent and spread rapidly beyond the hospital to the wider community. The epidemiologic information provided by phage typers was vital for devising practical advice on how to control this deadly strain of Staphylococcus and also for transforming the role of the hospital Bacteriologist from mere technician into infection-control expert.
Elizabeth Fee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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George E. Bolling (1876-1945): founder of an early public health laboratory.
American journal of public health, 2010Co-Authors: Elizabeth FeeAbstract:The article focuses on the work of George E. Bolling, Brockton Massachusetts City Chemist of in 1898 and Bacteriologist in 1902. Bolling set up an early public health laboratory as a laboratory assistant in the Brockton Sewerage Department. His work in bacteriology is noted. His public education campaign to reduce infant mortality is mentioned.
Peter Fifield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the Invisible Threat: Bacteriologists in Fiction and Periodical Advertisements, 1894–1913
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2018Co-Authors: Peter FifieldAbstract:This article explores the values attributed to the new science of bacteriology in five early stories of Bacteriologists: H. G. Wells’ ‘The Stolen Bacillus’ (1894), T. Mullett Ellis’s Zalma (1895), W. L. Alden’s ‘The Purple Death’ (1895), Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Max Hensig’ (1907), and Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of the Dying Detective’ (1913). I argue that the new science becomes a vehicle for anxieties about anarchist terrorism and German militarism. Responding to Martin Willis’s (2011) account of the microscope’s creative function at the fin de siecle, I suggest that the distinctive qualities of bacteriological science inflect the plot and style of these tales, as well as the nature of their fictional antagonists. These qualities include the magnification of an otherwise invisible threat and the ensuing distortion of the scientist’s moral judgement, the discrepancy between microbial size and potency, and German dominance in the field. The formal mechanisms of the texts, their patterns of tension and revelation, are also shown to interact with the new dynamics of bacteriological science and its play of visibility and invisibility. Comparing these texts with contemporaneous advertisements, I point out that the Bacteriologist was simultaneously portrayed, to the same audiences, as a vector of threat and a trustworthy authority underwriting new commercial products. This divergence suggests the pliancy of bacteriology’s cultural significance and the limited influence of fiction on commercial uses of bacteriology. I argue that such fiction exploits limited public knowledge of the Bacteriologist to develop an enduring motif of bacteriology as a moral and political danger.
