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Report of Six Cases and Summary of the Literature

JOHN C. PERKINS, MD; ROBERT L. DEVETSKI, MD; HARRY F. DOWLING, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1966;118(6):528-533.

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CARRIERS of salmonellae are a major source of endemic and epidemic spread of Salmonella infections in this country. Although the number of S typhosa carriers is probably decreasing with the decrease in new cases of typhoid fever, the number of carriers of other types of salmonellae is apparently on the increase. Before the advent of antibiotics, cholecystectomy was the only successful means of eradicating the carrier state.1 This left a wide field open for the antibiotics, and many attempts have been made to eradicate the carrier state with them. Before attempting to judge their effectiveness, one must first define the carrier state. A number of studies have shown that most adult patients with infections caused by S typhosa² and other salmonellae ^3-5 lose these microorganisms during the first three months after the acute illness. After this period only a few carriers become noncarriers, and after one year the carrier . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals and the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.

Footnotes
Received for publication March 17, 1966; accepted Sept 29.

Reprint requests to the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 840 S Wood St, Chicago 60680 (Dr. Dowling).

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