Does chloramphenicol remain the drug of choice for typhoid?
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 98 (3), 379-383
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268800062142
Abstract
SUMMARY: Of 2356 strains ofSalmonella typhiisolated in Britain in the 8-year period 1978–85, 2345 (99·53%) were sensitive to all antibiotics tested and 11 (0·47%) were chloramphenicol-resistant; chloramphenicol resistance was plasmid-mediated in 6 strains. It is concluded that chloramphenicol remains a satisfactory first-line choice of drug for tyrphoid fever in Britain.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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