[Prevalence of typhoid carriers after treatment with chloramphenicol].

Chloramphenicol and other antibiotics in the treatment of typhoid fever and typhoid carriers.

Treatment of the Typhoid Carrier State with Chloramphenicol *

The efficacy of chloramphenicol: in the treatment of acute typhoid fever is well established.84' 9 l0'1 18 However, treatment of the typhoid carrier state with this antibiotic, for varying periods of time and at dosage levels generally accepted as high, has been unsatisfactory.2 Untoward reactions have also been reported,' 2,6 of which anorexia, nausea, and a bitter taste in the mouth were the ...

Management of Typhoid Fever and Bacterial Meningitis by Chloramphenicol in Infants and Children

Chloramphenicol inhibits protein synthesis in bacteria and is usually bacteriostatic but is bactericidal against Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Neisseria meningitis. Chloramphenicol penetrates all body tissues well. The cerebrospinal fluid concentration averages 60% of the serum level, while brain levels are 9 times higher because of high lipid solubility of this drug. Ch...

Ampicillin Treatment of Typhoid Carriers.

THE change in the clinical course of typhoid fever due to treatment with chloramphenicol has been one of the more dramatic triumphs of the antibiotic age. A prolonged fever has been converted into a short sharp febrile illness, so that the patient suffering from the disease, instead of being dangerously ill for several weeks, may well be sitting up in bed after three or four days on chloramphen...

کوندرودیسپلازی متافیزال معرفی دو بیمار مبتلا به نوع Schmid

Typhoid fever is an endemic disease in Iran and other developing countries. This disease has gradually become resistant to the first line of drugs, and because of this resistancy we have studied a new alternative drug (cefixime) on typhoid fever patients and compared it's effectiveness with chloramphenicol. For this purpose, by a randomized clinical trial in Emam Khomeini hospital between 1995-...