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S Bass

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PubMed1982

Bacteremia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae of nonvaccine serotypes.

Comparison of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae blood isolates showed a 2.5-fold increase in nonvaccine strains from the Cleveland Veterans Administration Hospital compared with those from other Cleveland area hospitals. Death was more frequently associated with nonvaccine than vaccine serotypes. No patient at any of the hospitals involved in the study received pneumococcal vaccine. This suggests that Cleveland Veterans Administration Hospital represents a unique population of patients within the Cleveland area and emphasizes the need for continued serotyping of blood and body fluid isolates.

Adult↗
PubMed1974

Medical students in community physicians' offices.

Can the medical student benefit from spending time in the offices of community physicians? Eight consecutive final-year medical students visited the offices of 39 physicians, 31 family physicians and eight specialists, in the communities of Richmond and Delta, British Columbia. The students describe the value of their experience, common problems seen, continuity of care, practice variation, opportunities in specialist office practice and the standard of practice observed. We strongly suggest that some medical student instruction must take place in the community to ensure improved patient care from doctors with a reality-based training. All students, whatever their eventual area of work, would benefit from this experience and we recommend that other centres try similar experiments.

British Columbia↗
PubMed1973

Six medical students in a community hospital.

This paper describes part of an education experiment at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver.Six final-year medical students spent approximately 12 weeks in a community. Their time was divided between the hospital and various doctors' offices. They answered a simple questionnaire to describe their experiences and commented favourably upon the opportunities for direct patient contact, learning basic skills, informal teaching by both family physicians and consultants, and the variety of work available.They had the opportunity to follow up the progress of the patient and learn the natural history of common illnesses. They achieved their basic objectives. We conclude from their reports and informal conversation that the experiment was successful and recommend other institutions to try similar programs.

British Columbia↗
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Antimicrobial resistance of three species of Bacillus to thirty various antimicrobial agents.

Three frequently used strains of Bacillus were tested using antimicrobial susceptibility test discs to determine their resistance to various antimicrobial drug agents. The organisms selected were B. subtilis ATCC 6633 (used for USP B and F tests), B. stearothermophilus ATCC 12980 (used as a biological indicator for steam sterilization) and B. coagulans ATCC 51232 (used as a biological indicator for steam sterilization). The results indicated that for the thirty antimicrobial drug agents tested, the only organisms which exhibited any resistance to these agents was B. subtilis, and it only showed resistance to two drugs (Aztreonam and Bacitracin).

Bacillus↗