Typhoid Fever in Children Treated with Penicillin and Sulphathiazole
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more and better penicillin we should come to the stage of attacking it successfully. Bigger's (1946) researches showed that penicillin and sulphathiazole when used together exert a synergic action on Bad. typhosum. In consequence of this research McSweeney (1946) treated six cases of typhoid fever in adults with full doses of sulphathiazole and large doses of penicillin with apparently remarkable results. Evans (1946) carried out experiments the results of which suggest that a retarding effect is exerted by penicillin on the rate of growth of Bad. typhosum in vitro and in vivo. Basu (1947) treated seven critical cases of typhoid fever in adults with penicillin alone with apparently good results in six. The present work embodies the results of treatment of typhoid fever in seven children with
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