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Successful Treatment With Gentamicin

LCDR Jack E. Zimmerman, MC

JAMA. 1970;213(13):2266-2267.

Abstract
The acute septicemic form of melioidosis is associated with a high mortality despite currently recommended antibiotic therapy. A patient who developed multiple complications of wounds received in Vietnam, including Pseudomonas pseudomallei septicemia, was successfully treated with gentamicin sulfate. The use of this drug in the treatment of melioidosis has not been previously reported. Gentamicin may be useful in the treatment of this disease.

Author Affiliations
USN

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Naval Hospital in USS Sanctuary (AH-17), FPO San Francisco.

Footnotes
The opinions or assertions contained herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department or the naval service at large.

Reprint requests to National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md 20015 (LCDR Zimmerman).

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