“…The treatment regimen for ZnCl 2 smoke-induced injury frequently included antibiotics in order to prevent bacterial infection of damaged lung tissue. In the time period preceding 1985, patients underwent courses of sulfapyridine [6], sulfathiazole [6], penicillin [9,10,12,13], streptomycin [10,12], erythromycin [10], tetracycline [10,11,15], benzylpenicillin [10] and chloramphenicol [15]. After 1985, patients received erythromycin [18], oxacillin [26], gentamicin [26], ceftriaxone [26], ceftazidime [28,31] and levofloxacin [33].…”