Abstract
Summary
The lesions of ulcerative cecitis of rats resolved within 10 days of streptomycin treatment. The antibiotic was added to the animals' drinking water in an average dose of 0.1 g per day per rat. The bacilli of the Salmonella group which are invariably associated with the ulcers of cecitis were sensitive to streptomycin in the test tube and they could no longer be grown from the cecums of treated rats with healed lesions.
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