Antibiotics and Amœbic Dysentery

Amoebic Liver Abscess in African Children

“…In addition tetracycline or its derivatives and diiodo-hydroxyquinoline were given when dysentery was present. Antibiotics are of no value in the treatment of liver abscess (Wilmot, Armstrong and Elsdon-Dew, 1952; Wilmott, Powell and Elsdon-Dew, 1958;Powell, Wilmot and Elsdon-Dew, 1959). Penicillin was usually employed while aspiration was being carried out as a precaution against secondary infection.…”