COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF PENICILLIN, AUREOMYCIN AND TERRAMYCIN ON STREPTOCOCCAL TONSILLITIS AND PHARYNGITIS

1 January 1953

journal article
research article
Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics

Vol. 11 (1) , 7-14
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.11.1.7

Abstract

Symptoms subsided more rapidly in treated patients than among the controls. No 1 drug was consistently most beneficial. Penicillin was the most effective drug in eradicating streptococci from the throat.

Keywords

AUREOMYCIN/THERAPEUTIC USE
PENICILLIN/THERAPEUTIC USE
PHARYNGITIS
STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS/THERAPY
TERRAMYCIN/THERAPEUTIC USE
TONSILLITIS

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