Effect of several long-acting broad spectrum antibiotics on Prowazek rickettsia

Klimchuk, M.D.

Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal 38(5): 621-623

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0201-8462
PMID: 64918
Document Number: 98840
Antibiotics of the tetracycline series: diobiomycin and dipasphen, a combined preparation, were studied in lice infected artificially with R. prowazekii. Diobiomycin was somewhat more effective than dipasphen. Thus, its application for treating patients with exanthematic typhus (Brill's disease) may be promising.

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