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P.S.A. Sarma, P. Durairaj, Randomized treatment of patients with typhoid and paratyphoid fevers using norfloxacin or chloramphenicol, Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 85, Issue 5, September-October 1991, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(91)90390-K
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Abstract
Forty adult patients with Salmonella typhi and S. paratyphi infections were studied in a randomly assigned prospective study to receive norfloxacin (12 drug-sensitive and 8 drug-resistant cases) or chloramphenicol (20 cases). No complication occurred in either group and no side effect was noted in the norfloxacin-treated group. The results suggest that a 7 d course of twice daily norfloxacin promises to be an alternative to a 14 d course of chloramphenicol for treating chloramphenicol-sensitive and multidrug-resistant typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.
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