Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1949 · 43 citations · 1 references
During the past nine months a study has been made by members of the medical service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital concerning some of the possible therapeutic uses of aureomycin. Forty- eight patients with a variety of infectious processes were selected for treatment. In many cases the patients had been treated unsuccessfully with one or more chemotherapeutic agents before aureo- mycin was given but in each instance an effort was made to curtail other drugs during the period that aureomycin was used. Whenever possible the infectious agent was recovered before treatment with aureomycin was started, and other cultures were made during and following this therapy. The sensitivity to aureomycin of the bacteria re- covered was tested in vitro in each instance.
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