Psychiatric disturbance and chronic haemodialysis.

tetracycline) may fail to reduce the duration of fever to less than five days.4That our patients felt well and had a normal temperature 48-72 hours after starting erythromycin suggests that the drug helped resolve the disease in all cases.Erythromycin is thought to be the most effective antibiotic for legionnaire's disease and mycoplasma pneumonia, both of which are easily confused with Q fever radiologically and clinically.If erythromycin is as effective in treating Q fever as it appears to have been in these cases, it would simplify the approach to non-bacterial pneumonias and provide another drug for treating chronic Q fever.