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Bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract treated with ciprofloxacin or cefalexin--a comparative study
A Polubiec1, H Weuta, K Stepka
1III Clinic of Internal Medicine, Academy of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Infection
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
30/30 patients with lower UTI were enrolled in a randomized study to compare ciprofloxacin (250 mg/b.i.d.) and cefalexin (1 g/t.i.d.). In addition, 59 patients with cefalexin-resistant bacterial strains were treated in an open study arm. Ciprofloxacin showed convincingly better clinical and bacteriological efficacy than cefalexin. Both antibiotics were well tolerated. Ciprofloxacin has proved to be superior to cefalexin in the treatment of lower UTI.