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Drugs could include:
  • chloramphenicol

Drugs Overview Articles

Shigellosis
Patients who have very mild cases of shigellosis may improve without any antibiotic therapy; therefore, these drugs are indicated only for treatment of moderate or severe disease, as found in the tropics. Choice of antibiotic is based on the type ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Shigellosis
In the early and mid-1990s, researchers began to realize that not all cases of bacterial dysentery needed antibiotic treatment. Many patients improve without such therapy, and therefore these drugs are indicated only for treatment of moderate or s...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Specific Drugs Articles

ampicillin
Ampicillin is an antibiotic in the penicillin group of drugs. It fights bacteria in your body.
Source:MULTUM
ciprofloxacin (oral)
Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic in a group of drugs called fluoroquinolones. Ciprofloxacin fights bacteria in the body.
Source:MULTUM
sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim
Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim are both antibiotics that treat different types of infection caused by bacteria.
Source:MULTUM
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