The brucella germs are the cause of brucellosis or undulant fever. Undulant fever has been known also as Malta fever. The condition is far more widespread now than formerly, although methods of prevention have been developed based on our knowledge of the fact that the disease is spread through drinking milk from infected cattle and through contact with the meat of infected animals.
Aureomycin has been found to produce prompt improvement in the symptoms of undulant fever with a lowering of the fever, a reduction in the size of the spleen and the other general symptoms of this disease which are so unpleasant. Streptomycin and sulfadiazine employed together are especially effective in controlling the organisms of undulant fever. Aureomycin seems to be preferred, however, to this combination of drugs because later reports show more satisfactory results and less of the toxic reactions that accompany the use of the other antibiotics. The results with terramycin appear to be about as good as those with aureomycin.
Before the antibiotic drugs were discovered and found to be so useful in brucellosis, patients were usually put to bed and given proper diet. Under these circumstances they seemed to recover gradually, although relapses were exceedingly frequent. Brucellosis is a rather chronic disease which may last for several months – even years – and be quite weakening. After the infection is over, people are weak, fatigued, nervous and often depressed. Loss of ambition is one of the most prominent symptoms of people who have had undulant fever.
Because the emotional reaction to the weakness may be so great, doctors are warranted in assuring patients that with proper treatment, complete recovery may occur and they can eventually regain their strength. In order to enable the person who has been weakened by a chronic disease to regain strength, rest, sunshine and a good diet with plenty of protein and vitamins is of the utmost importance.
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