Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1986) 18, 277-279
© 1986 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Trimethoprim in enteric fever
University of Birmingham, Department of Communicable and Tropical Diseases, East Birmingham Hospital Birmingham B9 5ST, England
accepted 30 March 1986
Seventy-one patients suffering from typhoid or paratyphoid fever were treated with trimethoprim. Sixty-three were cured. Only three patients continued to excrete Salmonella typhi in stools at the time of discharge from hospital. Trimethoprim alone is a suitable agent for the treatment of enteric fever.