Antibiotics and Other Sulfonamides to Avoid If You Have a Sulfa Allergy Sulfa drugs are synthetic (man-made) medications made from sulfanilamide that contain antibacterial properties. Sulfa drugs ...

One of the first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other ...

The preferred treatment first was sulfa drugs; when Shigella strains showed resistance to them, medical people turned to newer antibiotics, such as streptomycin and tetracycline. What exactly was ...

THE ever-increasing number of case reports of renal complications in sulfonamide drug therapy indicates that neither the mechanism of their production nor the means of preventing them is yet ...