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RICHARD CHARET, M.D.; IRVING SIEGEL, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1952;90(2):250-257.

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THIS case is presented as the first in which recovery from acute staphylococcic lung abscess may be attributed to bacitracin. While the majority of acute non-putrid lung abscesses respond well to antibiotics, the occasion may arise in which the invading organism is resistant to the common antibiotics and the infection fails to come under control.

There are reports that 59% of the strains of Staphylococcus isolated are now penicillin-resistant.¹

REPORT OF CASE

A 62-year-old white man was admitted to the Prospect Heights Hospital on Aug. 6, 1951, with a 41-hour history of severe pain in the epigastrium and right upper abdominal quadrant of sudden onset, accompanied with nausea and vomiting.

Previous history included an acute cowper's gland abscess in July, 1951, which was successfully treated by surgery and antibiotics. The patient had been a chronic alcoholic for the past nine years, consuming daily 1 pt. to 1 qt. (500 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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