...Wu Ruanguan; Yan Kunming; Song Qiong A retrospective clinical study was conducted to evaluate the efficacies of various kinds of antibiotics on 804 patients with typhoid fever. Of 16 regimens studied, ofloxacin and enoxacin achieved 100 cure rates without relapse or carriage of Salmonella typhi...

..., and intestinal salmonellosis. A single dose of quinolones has been effective in the treatment of traveler’s diarrhea and cholera. Uncomplicated typhoid fever was cured by norfloxacin, pefloxacin, and ofloxacin 400 mg twice daily (b.i.d.) for 7-14 days or ciprofloxacin 500 mg b.i.d. for 10 days. A single daily...

...Giuseppe Morelli; Modestino Guerriero; Pasquale Cristiano; Patrizia Galderisi; Attilio Postiglione; Franco Paradisi The authors have conducted an open randomized study to compare the clinical efficacy and safety of cefoperazone with those of chloramphenicol in the treatment of typhoid fever...

...O. Schiraldi; E. Sforza; F. Piaia A double-blind study on 72 adult patients affected by typhoid fever was done utilizing a new sulfa-trimethoprim combination (trimethoprim-sulfamethopyra-zine) versus the well-known combination trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. The dosage used for the new drug was 2...

...J. Figueroa; G. Baquero; C. Otal; A. Rodríguez Treatment with fosfomycin alone and associated to subtherapeutic doses of chloramphenicol or of ampicillin, has been tried on 50 patients with typhoid fever and on four carriers of S. typhi in the Hospital del Rey. 15 patients were treated...

...R.C. Misra; D.D. Kulpati; Saroj Bala; K. Prakash; S.K. Gupta; H.K. Chuttani Niridazole (Ambilhar) was used in the treatment of 20 patients with typhoid fever. The drug was effective in 11 patients. They became afebrile within 5.5 ± 1.5 days. Patients who did not respond were then treated...