The Treatment of Chronic Human Amebiasis with Aureomycin

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Abstract
AS a part of a survey of intestinal parasites among veterans of World War II, every patient admitted to the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Hospital on the Medical Service during the first ten months of 1949 was asked to collect 3 random stool specimens to be examined for ova and parasites. In March, 1949, a young packing-plant employee, hospitalized for treatment of acute brucellosis with bacteremia due to Brucella abortus, was found to have trophozoites and cysts of Endamoeba histolytica in 3 successive stool specimens, although he at first denied any past symptoms of amebiasis. He was treated with oral administration . . .