Terramycin in active diarrheal and dysenteric amebiasis.

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Article1 June 1952TERRAMYCIN IN ACTIVE DIARRHEAL AND DYSENTERIC AMEBIASISW. A. SODEMAN, B.S., M.D., F.A.C.P., R. N. CHAUDHURI, M.B., M.R.C.P. (Edin.), T.D.D. (Wales), D. BANERJEE, M.B., D.T.M.&H. (Lond.), M.R.C.P. (Edin.)W. A. SODEMAN, B.S., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, R. N. CHAUDHURI, M.B., M.R.C.P. (Edin.), T.D.D. (Wales)Search for more papers by this author, D. BANERJEE, M.B., D.T.M.&H. (Lond.), M.R.C.P. (Edin.)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-36-6-1467 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptA number of reports1, 2, 3 have indicated that terramycin is efficient in the treatment of colonic amebiasis. Although some instances of active diarrhea and dysentery were included in these reports, most of the patients described had low grade colonic infections and were in the nondysenteric stage. For this reason the authors are reporting their experiences with this drug in the treatment of 16 patients with active diarrhea or dysentery.Six of these patients (table 1, patients 1 through 6) were observed by one of us (W. A. S.) in the Tulane University of Louisiana at New Orleans. The 10...Bibliography1. MostTobieBozicevichReardon HJEJLV: Terramycin 100% effective against amebiasis, Pub. Health Rep. 65: 1684, 1950. Google Scholar2. Ruiz SanchezRiebelingArreola FREC: El tratamiento de la disenteria amebiana con terramicina; nota preliminar, Medicina, México 30: 365, 1950. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. Knight V: Clinical evaluation of aureomycin, Chloramphenicol, and terramycin, New York State J. Med. 50: 2173, 1950. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. MostVan Assendelft HF: Laboratory and clinical observations on the effect of terramycin in the treatment of amebiasis, Am. J. Trop. Med. 31: 284, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. KilloughMagill JHGE: Terramycin in epidemic typhus, amebic dysentery, and typhoid, J. A. M. A. 147: 1737, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. SiguierChoubracHerman FPMJ: L'auréomycine dans le traitement de l'amibiase intestinale aiguë évolutive, Bull. et mém. Soc. méd. d. hôp. de Paris Nos. 25/26: 1363, 1950; abstracted, Trop. Dis. Bull. 48: 468, 1951. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication January 2, 1952.From the Department of Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, and the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, India.†Visiting Lecturer in the Medical Sciences, 1951-1952, at the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, India.The terramycin used in this study was supplied by Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe management of intestinal parasitic infectionsTerramycin in AmebiasisThe Treatment of Amebiasis With PAA-701—A Preliminary ReportPresent Day Treatment of Amebiasis 1 June 1952Volume 36, Issue 6Page: 1467-1474KeywordsAmebiasisDiarrheaDrugsDysenteryPatients Issue Published: 1 June 1952 PDF downloadLoading ...