UNDULANT FEVER IN INFANCY

Undulant Fever

During the last four years a considerable number of case reports of undulant fever in the United States, apparently caused by infection with B. abortus, have appeared. Kern' has recently reviewed the literature of the subject and reported two additional cases, the first to be recognized in Pennsylvania. He especially calls attention to the fact that since the first proven case in this country w...

Sulphonamides in Undulant Fever

Undulant fever in children.

Since the discovery of the part played by the brucella abortus organisms in the production of undulant fever in man, increasing numbers of cases have been reported. In this country a series of three hundred cases has been recorded by Dalrymple Champneys (1936). This series agrees with all others published in that, first, it shows a great preponderance of cases amongst males-out of two hundred a...

The Incidence of Undulant Fever in Children.

Treatment of Undulant Fever with Sulphanilamide

use; they often give rise to severe reaction, especially when given intravenously, and the beneficial effect is perhaps largely due to protein shock. When trypaflavin was introduced, great hopes were entertained, and good results were claimed; the same may be said of mercurochrome, and of fouadin, a trivalent antimony preparation, but none was established as a really effective therapeutic agent...