Plague As Seen in South Vietnamese Children: A Chronicle of Observations and Treatment Under Adverse Conditions

Frederick M. Burkle

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Abstract

Eighty-eight South Vietnamese children with bubonic, bubonic-septicemic and septicemic forms of plague are reviewed. This disease is fulminating in children. Of the various forms of treatment available, tetracycline and chloramphenicol appear to produce a more rapid lysis of toxic symptoms than does streptomycin, and may well avert death by endotoxin shock which streptomycin seems to induce.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)291-298
Number of pages8
JournalClinical pediatrics
Volume12
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1973
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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