Fulminating Staphylococcal Infections Treated with Fucidin⌖ and Penicillin or Semisynthetic Penicillin

1 May 1964

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 60 (5) , 790-798
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-60-5-790

Abstract

Fucidin (R), a new oral antibiotic with a steroid structure, is very effective against infections caused by Staphylocoecus aureus. The use of this new drug alone will probably result in a frequent occurrence of resistant staphylococci. When fucidin is used in combination with penicillin or Methicillin (R) in treating 69 patients with staphylococcal infections, resistance to fucidin or the penicillins does not develop.

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