Abstract
Six patients with typhoid fever were treated with chloramphenicol. The excellent clinical response in four cases suggests that chloramphenicol is the drug of choice in the treatment of this disease. In one case in which clinical relapse occurred, there was good response to re-treatment. One patient, critically ill, in a typhoid state, and treated late in the course of the disease, died without beneficial effect from chloramphenicol, but the patient had been unable to retain the drug because of vomiting.
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