Torsion or Spontaneous Haemorrhagic Infarction of Testicle in Newborn Infant

Abstract

BJouxfL Garrod (1948).Streptomycin sulphate and the calcium chloride compound behaved similarly in these experiments.Following improvements in the dispensing and injection technique, 75 samples of streptomycin solution proved sterile on culture.We attribute this result, however, not so much to any specific changes in technique as to greater care having been taken when the hazard was understood.It seems advisable to impress on novices and occasionally to remind experienced staff that antibiotic solutions may not be self-sterilizing and that therefore they always require a rigorously aseptic technique in their use.Stable ready- prepared solutions of streptomycin have recently become available commercially, and these should reduce the danger of contamination, besides saving labour and lessening the risk of drug sensitization of staff.Samples of such a solution containing 0.25% phenol were examined.Little bactericidal action was observed over a period of 10 minutes with inocula of 10' streptomycin-resistant cocci per ml. of solution, and care therefore should not be relaxed even when such products are used.We are indebted to Dr. R.