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BURTON ARMIN WAISBREN, M.D.; CARL L. STRELITZER, Ph.B.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;99(5):744-750.

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This report is an attempt to present data regarding the sensitivities of Gram-negative bacilli to antibiotics in a manner that will be of maximum use to practicing physicians. Experience at the Milwaukee County General Hospital has shown that many cases of severe infections must be treated with antibiotics before the results of sensitivity tests are available to the ward physician. In these cases therapy which has been based on previous experience regarding the sensitivities of bacteria to the antibiotics usually has been successful. As a result of this experience the majority of cases of infections are now treated successfully with antibiotics that are selected on the basis of statistical studies rather than by specific sensitivity tests on each causative strain of bacteria. This has markedly reduced the number of sensitivity studies that must be done by the laboratory and allowed us to use the highly sensitive tube-dilution method for determining . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Milwaukee

From the infectious disease control unit of the Department of Medicine of the Milwaukee County General Hospital and the Marquette University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 29, 1956.

A portion of this report was presented at the Antibiotic Symposium in Washington, D. C. on October 17, 1956.

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