E. Hemminki|A Paakkulainen
The effect of antibiotics on mortality from infectious diseases in Sweden and Finland.
study carried determine whether preexisting decline mortality rates infectious diseases accelerated introduction antibiotic chemotherapeutic drugs linear regression curves showed sweden mortality rates declined faster septicemia syphilis nonmemingococcal meningitis introduction drugs contrast ten infectious diseases studied scarlet fever erysipelas acute rheumatic fever puerperal sepsis meningococcal infection bronchitis pneumonia tuberculosis typhoid fever acute gastroenteritis accelerated decline mortality could detected findings suggest antibiotic chemotherapeutic drugs dramatic effect mortality infectious diseases popularly attributed