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Nineteenth Annual Review of Significant Publications

HOBART A. REIMANN, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1954;94(2):272-313.

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IN THE past year contributions to knowledge in the field of infectious disease, as usual, included a wide variety of subjects. No spectacular advances were reported. Antibiotic therapy continues to hold the most interest. Enormous amounts of antibiotic agents are used, but increasing information about illogical and indiscriminate therapy and of harmful side-effects eventually will bring about their more rational application. Minor infections of the respiratory tract, viral hepatitis, Coxsackie disease, tuberculosis, and streptococcosis were subjects of intensive investigation. Opinion has formed regarding the value of gamma globulin to prevent poliomyelitis, and interest now rests on the results of prophylaxis with a vaccine. Since its control with penicillin, lobar pneumonia has scarcely been mentioned. and a journal devoted to syphilology is about to be abandoned for want of interest.

ANTIBIOTICS

The list of infectious diseases known to be influenced favorably by antibiotic therapy is fairly stable and needs but little . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BEIRUT, LEBANON

From the Medical School, American University of Beirut.

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