[Therapy of staphylococcal endocarditis].

It is reported on the therapy with antibiotics of 5 patients with staphylococcal endocarditis with linkomycin--streptomycin. 2 patients were cured, 2 patients died after disappearing of fever and clinically unequivocally controlled septicaemia of typical complications of ulcerous endocarditis. One patient continued fevering to the exitus letalis when negative blood cultures were present, whereby at post-mortem examination an encephalomalacia with fresh haemorrhage was found to be the cause.