Abstract
Summary
1. The addition of aureomycin to the diet, subcutaneous administration, and gastric intubation of the antibiotic prevented and cured experimental polyarthritis of rats due to the L4 strain of pleuropneumonia-like organism.
2. in vitro aureomycin prevented growth of the microbe in broth.
3. In preliminary clinical trials, several patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis who responded unsatisfactorily to several therapeutic agents also failed to respond to aureomycin.
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