Treatment of Bacterial Endocarditis

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Abstract
Oxytetracycline. Reports of therapy with oxytetracycline in 27 collected cases of bacterial endocarditis75, 113, 134, 136, 154, 164, 169–172, 174 175 176 177 178 indicate that the results were qualitatively similar to those obtained with chlortetracycline and equally difficult to evaluate (a few of these patients who were also treated with the latter antibiotic have been included among the cases treated with that agent). Although comparisons with the small numbers of cases involved are not warranted the results appear to be quantitatively slightly less favorable, for only 7 of these 29 patients achieved a favorable result and cure during the course of treatment with oxytetracycline (27 per cent recoveries from . . .