Treatment of severe Salmonella typhimurium infection with ciprofloxacin.

Enteric bacterial infections caused by non-typhoidal Salmonella species are still common throughout the world(l,2). The treatment of non-typhoidal salmonellosis with antimicrobials is still controversial. Antimicrobial treatment of salmonellosis has largely been discouraged because of common belief that antimicrobials do not significantly decrease the duration or severity of diarrhea, length of fever and excretion of organism(3,4). However, several other workers opine that antimicrobials are necessary when there is colonic