Treatment of Typhoid Fever with Chloromycetin
- 1 February 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 242 (5), 177-179
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195002022420504
Abstract
IN THE summer of 1949, 4 patients with typhoid fever were admitted to Belmont Hospital. All were treated with Chloromycetin. One patient (Case 4), a forty-four-year-old woman who died less than forty-eight hours after admission, had other conditions that were responsible for her death. The other 3 cases responded dramatically to Chloromycetin.The first patient had an acute attack of typhoid fever. The second patient was the sister of the first and was asymptomatic; this case was discovered as a result of routine stool examinations. The third patient had been treated previously at another hospital and had a relapse of . . .Keywords
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