| Autor: |
STERNBERG, THOMAS H., TURNER, THOMAS B. |
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JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association; September 1944, Vol. 126 Issue: 3 p157-161, 5p |
| Abstrakt: |
In May 1943, soon after preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of gonorrhea was obtained by Mahoney and his co-workers1 and Herrell, Cook and Thompson,2 studies were inaugurated by the Surgeon General's Office of the U. S. Army with a view to determining as rapidly as possible timedosage factors in the penicillin treatment of this disease. The clinical trials were carried out in fifteen selected army hospitals. Altogether, 1,686 patients with sulfonamide resistant gonorrhea were studied. METHOD OF STUDY The hospitals participating in the study and the responsible investigators in each are shown in table 1. Similar requirements as to the selection of patients, methods of treatment and criteria of cure obtained in each. SELECTION OF PATIENTS.— Patients admitted to the study were limited to those fulfilling the following conditions:A clear history of gonorrhea acquired within the past few weeks or months. |
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