PLEUROPULMONARY TULAREMIA: OBSERVATIONS ON 12 CASES TREATED WITH STREPTOMYCIN
Authors: J S HUNT
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1947)

Article1 February 1947PLEUROPULMONARY TULAREMIA: OBSERVATIONS ON 12 CASES TREATED WITH STREPTOMYCINJOHN S. HUNT, M.D.JOHN S. HUNT, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-26-2-263 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the course of a study of streptomycin therapy of infectious diseases conducted at the Vanderbilt University Hospital and other hospitals in Nashville, the striking results which were obtained in the treatment of tularemia focused attention on this disease. These results were so impressive as to justify the conclusion that streptomycin treatment of tularemia is curative, in the strict sense of the word. The high incidence of tularemic pneumonia and the number of occasions in which the source of the infection was obscure and the diagnosis in doubt, suggested that this form of pneumonia is much more prevalent in this...Bibliography1. STUARTPULLEN BMRL: Tularemic pneumonia, review of the American literature and report of 15 additional cases, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1945, ccx, 223-235. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. BLACKFORDCASEY SDCJ: Pleuropulmonary tularemia, Arch. Int. Med., 1941, lxvii, 43-71. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. BURROUGHSHOLDENRIEDLONGANECKERMEYER ALRDSKF: A field study of latent tularemia in rodents with a list of all known naturally infected vertebrates, Jr. Infect. Dis., 1945, lxxvi, 115-119. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. PARKERFRANCISSPENCER RRERR: Tularemic infection in the ticks of the species Dermacentor andersoni (Stiles) in the Bitter-Root Valley, Montana, Pub. Health Rep., 1924, xxxix, 1057-1073. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. HEILMAN FR: Streptomycin in the treatment of experimental tularemia, Proc. Staff Meet., Mayo Clin., 1944, xix, 533-559. Google Scholar6. FOSHAYPASTERNACK LAB: Streptomycin treatment of tularemia, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1946, cxxx, 393-398. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. FOSHAY L: A comparative study of the treatment of tularemia with immune serum, hyperimmune serum and streptomycin, Am. Jr. Med., 1946, i, 180-188. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. : Streptomycin in the treatment of infections. A report of 1000 cases, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1946, cxxxii, 4-11. Google Scholar9. FOSHAY L: Tularemia: A summary of certain aspects of the disease, including methods for early diagnosis and the result of serum treatment in 600 patients, Medicine, 1940, xix, 1-83. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. FOSHAY L: Tularemia: Accurate and earlier diagnosis by means of the intradermal reaction, Jr. Infect. Dis., 1932, li, 286-291. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Nashville, Tennessee*Received for publication November 7, 1946.The streptomycin for this study was provided by the National Research Council from supplies assigned for clinical investigations recommended by the Committee on Chemotherapeutics and Other Agents.†From the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Clinical Fellow in Medicine of the American College of Physicians. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byTularemiaTularemiaTularemiaTularämieCase 73-1961PLEUROPULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF TULAREMIA: TWO REPORTS OF TULAREMIC LUNG ABSCESSESDie PneumonienTularämieAureomycin in the treatment of tularemiaA Case of Fatal Tularemic Pneumonia with NecropsyStreptomycin 1 February 1947Volume 26, Issue 2Page: 263-276KeywordsChemotherapeutic agentsInfectious diseasesPneumoniaStreptomycinTularemia Issue Published: 1 February 1947 PDF downloadLoading ...