Streptomycin Therapy for Certain Infections of Intestinal Origin

Abstract
SEVERAL reports have already been published concerning the laboratory and clinical investigations on the efficacy of streptomycin in various infections carried out in Army hospitals under the auspices of the Surgeon General during the past eighteen months.1 2 3 4 5 The purpose of the present communication is to enlarge on and bring up to date experience with treated infections of intestinal origin. The Army series is compared with the cumulative experience in these infections as recently reported by the Committee on Therapeutics and Other Agents of the National Research Council.6 BrucellosisThe most recent report of the Committee revealed that, as of September, . . .