SODIUM FUSIDATE IN SURGICAL WOUND INFECTIONS

The new antistaphylococcal drug, sodium fusidate, was studied in 102 surgical wound infections with a culture of coagulase-positive Staph. aureus. An 84 per cent resolution of the infections was achieved. In thirty-four infections which were resistant to other synthetic penicillins, sodium fusidate was 62 per cent effective. No untoward reactions were observed. It was concluded that sodium fusidate is an effective antistaphylococcal drug and should be utilized when other synthetic penicillins have failed. © 1968.