Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J O Pearson.
A build-up of numbers of tuberculosis patients who default at an early stage from the ambulatory intensive short-course chemotherapy routinely practised in the Combined Health Scheme of the Divisional Council of the Cape is bringing to light the bactericidal power of a four-drug, rifampicin-containing regimen. Within the range of 40-80 daily doses, all is by no means lost if the patient defaults.
Two radiographs, taken only 28 days apart, vividly illustrate the speed of progression of the tuberculous disease state once the critical multiplication rate of the mycobacteria has been attained.
Radiographs are presented to illustrate the outcome of routine chemotherapy for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in a local authority polyclinic setting. Intensive, daily, supervised, short-course, 4-drug chemotherapy has been administered to ambulant patients on a 5-day-a-week basis for 5-6 months (100-130 daily doses). Over 5 000 patients with positive sputum cultures have been treated during the last 6 years, with good effect.
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