RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Drugs for typhoid fever
JF Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
JO Drug Ther Bull
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 33
OP 34
DO 10.1136/dtb.4.9.33
VO 4
IS 9
YR 1966
UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/4/9/33.abstract
AB Chloramphenicol has been the standard drug in typhoid fever for almost twenty years. It does however carry a small but gave risk of producing marrow aplasia,1 2 and a safe and equally effective alternative would therefore be preferable. Ampicillin in particular must be considered.