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ERNEST JAWETZ, M.D., Ph.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1948;57(5):916-918.

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Mortara and Saito¹ reported recently that streptomycin was effective in treatment for experimental infections of rabbits with Hemophilus ducreyi. Their work suggested a clinical trial of this antibiotic in cases of chancroid. Recently 3 patients suffering from typical chancroid were treated with streptomycin at the United States Marine Hospital in San Francisco. The results of this treatment were so striking as to justify a brief report.

REPORT OF CASES

Case 1.—

A. S., a 34 year old Negro merchant seaman, entered the hospital with a penile chancre and a tender swelling in the right inguinal region of eighteen days' duration. The patient had always been healthy except for three attacks of gonorrheal urethritis, the last two of which had been treated with "sulfa." The patient remembered that fever and a cutaneous rash appeared when he took "sulfa pills" for the second time. His present illness began with a penile lesion, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the United States Marine Hospital, San Francisco.

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