AUREOMYCIN IN ACUTE INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
- 1 October 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 31 (4) , 678-681
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-31-4-678
Abstract
Aureomycin was used in a 17-yr.-old girl with severe infectious mononucleosis which had become progressively worse by the 10th day of the disease. By that time, the patient had had a total of 1,800,000 U. of penicillin in oil intramusc. and the temp. continued to rise to 104.5. She presented a severe pharyngeal exudate, splenomegaly, cervical lymphadenopathy and severe cough. 24 hrs. after aureomycin therapy was begun, there was a precipitous drop in the temp., the spleen was no longer palpable, the cervical glands were smaller and less tender and the patient was strikingly less toxic. The temp. remained normal 72 hrs. after the beginning of treatment.Keywords
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