TWO APPARENTLY UNRELATED OUTBREAKS OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY

The Treatment of Bacillary Dysentery

Sir,?There are two points arising from your December editorial on the treatment of acute baeillary dysentery on which I think further comment to be necessary. These are, first, the absorption of sulphapyridine from the gastro-intestinal tract, and second, the mention of chronic baeillary dysentery. To deal with absorption first : the rate of absorption of the sulphonamides varies directly, with...

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 ...

Chronic Bacillary Dysentery

THE investigation of chronic diarrhlea forms an important part of the examination of patients invalided from overseas commands, particularly from the tropics. This involves adequate laboratory examination for intestinal protozoa, flagellates, and dysentery organisms. During the course of the laboratory investigations on seven hundred of such patients with a history of chronic diarrhoea, dysente...