but often leading to disease (boils, sore throats and even pneumonia) if the victim’s resistance is low. When penicillin first appeared, most strains of ”staph” were a pushover for it ...
As with penicillin, only a year passed after this ... Most cases involve only a minor skin infection, such as a boil, but some prove deadly. A 2007 Centers for Disease Control study reported ...
Most staphylococcus infections are minor (e.g., boils), but even so, said Dr. Finland, “there was an appreciable number of fatalities among the cases which did not respond to penicillin.” ...