Bacillary Dysentery Treated with M.&.B. 693
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Bacillary dysentery is rife in India and the mortality is particularly high amongst the younger age-groups. The public health measures adopted to control or eradicate the disease are far from being satisfactory even in cities and towns, not to speak of rural areas which constitute the major part of India. Taking these facts into consideration if a quick and radical treatment can be instituted at a cheap rate, it will be greatly welcomed from all quarters. Reitler and Marberg (1941) successfully treated 20 cases of bacillary dysentery of various types with sulphapyridine with the result that all were cured within 48 to 72 hours after the drug treatment was started. Later on, Bell (1941) used it in an epidemic of bacillary dysentery at a colony in Southampton where all his fourteen cases recovered in the same space of time. Whereas in the former series there were
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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 ...
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دوره 77 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1942