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RESULTS OF TREATMENT OF 104 PATIENTS WITH GENTAMICIN
Author(s) -
Stratford Bryan C.,
Dixson Shirley
Publication year - 1971
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.1326-5377.1971.tb88072.x
Subject(s) - gentamicin , medicine , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The details of treatment of 135 incidents of infection in 104 patients are assessed at the bacteriological level. Thirty‐three out of 44 patients with urinary tract infections were cleared, as were 25 out of 49 patients with respiratory tract infections. The results showed that gentamicin was successful in treating 14 of 23 wound infections, and 10 of 20 patients with septicæmia. Side effects were few, and this is accredited to the fact that all patients had serum assays performed each day.