Streptomycin in the Treatment of Salmonella Enteritis in Infants

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Abstract
THE susceptibility of various strains of salmonella in vitro to streptomycin has been adequately demonstrated by West et al.1 However, the clinical efficacy of this antibiotic in salmonella enteritis has not been too extensively investigated, and relatively few cases have been reported thus far among children. Seligmann et al.2 used streptomycin in 5 cases of enteritis due to Salmonella typhimurium in the newborn period and observed only a transitory sterilization of the bowel, and in all 5 cases the pathogenic organism reappeared in the stool, usually within forty-eight hours after the drug had been discontinued. A relatively small oral dose . . .

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