Chronic Friedlander's pulmonary infection treated with chloromycetin; case report.

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  • H STEINBERG
  • M N TOWBIN
چکیده

The Introduction in the past decade and a half of the sulfonamides and antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial infections has led to a variety of regimens In the therapy of Frledlander’s pneumonia. Both the sulfonamides and streptomycin have been used with varying degrees of success.’2 More recently aueromycln has been employed with gratifying results.3 Among the newer antibiotics, chloromycetin has, to our knowledge, never been

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Diseases of the chest

دوره 21 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1952