CLINICAL STUDIES ON DOXYCYCLINE IN THE SURGICAL FIELD

Abstract

From the clinical studies on doxycycline, the following results were obtained.
Among 55 cases of surgical purulent infection treated with doxycycline orally, the clinically effective results were obtained in 81. 8%, no disturbances of haematopoietic, renal and hepatic functions were caused, and the isolated gram-positive cocci were known to be highly sensitive to doxycycline in 100% by the disc sensitivity test, while it was revealed by the disc test that gram-positive cocci, especially Staphylococcus. aureus, isolated in our hospital during a period from May to October 1968, were highly sensitive to doxycycline in 93∼100%.