Typhoid–Bacillus Infection of a Surgical Wound: Treatment with a Urethane-Sulfanilamide Mixture

Abstract

ALTHOUGH the occurrence of localized areas of suppuration caused by the typhoid bacillus is on the whole infrequent, McCrae1 believes that during typhoid fever no part of the body in which abscesses may occur is exempt. Eberthella typhosa and pyogenic cocci, acting either alone or in combination, are the usual etiologic agents in this type of complication, which may occur without any apparent inciting cause, or as the result of injury to tissue by needle punctures, spontaneous hematomas or surgical procedures. In most cases of abscess appearing in the course of typhoid fever, the lesions appear in various tissues without . . .