title: Comparison of two non-absorbable antibiotics for treatment of bacterial enteritis in children.
abstract: Thirty-one children with bacterial diarrhoea were administered an oral suspension of rifaximin (14 children, mean age: 4.3 yrs; dosage: 5 ml, equal to 100 mg, x 4/day for 3 days on average) or of neomycin + bacitracin (17 children, mean age: 3.6 yrs; dosage: 5 ml x 4/ day for 4 days on average). Etiologic agents were: minor Salmonella spp in 9 and 7 cases respectively; enteropathogenic E. coli in 5 and 10 cases. Rifaximin yielded bacteriological cure in 12/14 children; the reference drug in 13/17. With both antibiotics, stool number/day fell, after one day, from 6 on average, to normality (2-3 stools); within two days stool consistency and characteristics shifted to normal. Symptomatology was quickly eliminated in all of the cured children. Both treatments showed excellent systemic tolerability; rifaximin was completely tolerated also locally, while two cases of stomach ache were reported with the reference drug.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Paediatric Surgery, Regional Hospital, Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Beseghi
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: De'Angelis
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001414:Bacitracin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004751:Enteritis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005765:Gastrointestinal Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009355:Neomycin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012294:Rifamycins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000078262:Rifaximin
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D005765:Gastrointestinal Agents; D012294:Rifamycins; D001414:Bacitracin; D009355:Neomycin; D000078262:Rifaximin