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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Author(s) -
V. Doycheva,
Y. Mitova,
Ts. Mincheva,
J. Donkov
Publication year - 1940
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1940.tb79649.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , world wide web
It is worthy of note that the children who recovered were the older ones of the group. Chemotherapy was necessary for three weeks in Case I, but for only eight days in Case II. In the hands of Silverthorne and Browri'v" sulphan llamide has reduced the mortality rate from hremolytic streptococcal meningitis from 98·9% to 44'4%. There is no question of the value of this drug in this disease; but we have had no experience of "M & B 693". Until conclusive evidence is available to establish which of these drugs is the more effective in streptococcal infections, we prefer to use sulphanilamide. susceptibility of pneumococci to "M & B 693" depends not on the t ype so much as on the individual strain of the organism. It seems that vigorous administration of "M & B 693" is the most hopeful therapy yet available for pneumococcal meningitis. Nevertheless this remalns the most lethal of the common .forms of purulent meningitis.