AN OUTBREAK OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY IN A BOYS' SCHOOL.

Bacillary Dysentery in Cyprus

The severity of the illness varied from a few loose stools to the passage of bloody fl.uid up to fifty times per day. Other symptoms included fever, nausea, occasional vomiting and abdominal cramps. There was no obvious relationship 'between the severity of the symptoms and the organism isolated. Abdominal tenderness was a common physical sign. Prostration and dehydration were surprisingly infr...

Chemotherapy in Bacillary Dysentery

Chemotherapy in Bacillary Dysentery

on them. They were treated with sulphanilamide; some of them cleared up within seven to fourteen days and others showed no improvement. These resistant cases were then given sulphapyridine (M.&B. 693) and they all cleared up within four or five days. It appeared from these observations that:? 1. Sulphanilamide is effective against some of the organisms of bacillary dysentery. 2. Sulphapyridine ...

Bacillary Dysentery in Human Volunteers *

In connection with a study to determine whether man could be successfully immunized against bacillary dysentery it was necessary to determine the infective dose of dysentery bacilli by feeding living Shigella to human volunteers. The only previous information concerning the susceptibility of man to experimental infection is contained in a few published observations' 3 of accidental laboratory-i...

Sulpha Drugs in Bacillary Dysentery

It is now generally accepted that the sulphonamide drugs have a beneficial effect in bacillary dysentery. Sulphaguanidine, sulphapyridine, succinyl sulphathiazole, phthalyl sulpliathiazole and sulphanilyl benzamide and even sulphanilamide are being found to be more or less beneficial in dysentery cases. But the question arises of the choice of a drug in acute infections and/or removing the pers...