Streptomycin in the Treatment of Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

UP TO the present there have been scattered reports on the use of streptomycin in the treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis. No individual series of cases has been large enough from which to draw conclusions. It is the purpose of this paper to present another unusual case of subacute bacterial endocarditis successfully treated with streptomycin, and to summarize the literature on the subject to May, 1949.After several unencouraging reports, Loewe et al.,1 1944, showed that subacute bacterial endocarditis could be cured by penicillin given in sufficiently high doses for adequate lengths of time. Prior to this the prognosis in . . .