| inadvertent use of bicillin c-r for treatment of syphilis--maryland, 1998. | in october 1998, the maryland department of health and mental hygiene (mdh) was notified that a public sexually transmitted disease (std) clinic in a county (county a) had used a nonrecommended preparation to treat syphilis patients during january-october 1998. the clinic had been inadequately treating syphilis patients or syphilis contacts with bicillin c-r (a mixture of 1.2 million units [mu] benzathine penicillin g [bpg] and 1.2 mu procaine penicillin g), rather than with bicillin l-a (2.4 mu ... | 1999 | 11263547 |