Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2004Vol. 38pp. -
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Abstract
Streptomycin, an antimicrobial with limited availability, is the treatment of choice for plague, a fulminating and potentially epidemic disease that poses a bioterrorism concern. We evaluated the efficacy of gentamicin and tetracyclines for treating human plague. A medical record review was conducte …