Event | Treatment groups | ||
---|---|---|---|
IV 10 days | IV 3 days | ||
Patients who had at least one recurrence of urinary tract infection (%) | 6/110 (5) | 9/110 (8) | |
Sex (%) | |||
Male | 2/28 (7) | 3/21 (14) | |
Female | 4/82 (5) | 6/89 (7) | |
Median age at time of first recurrence (y) | 2.2 | 0.8 | |
Number of episodes of recurring urinary tract infection | |||
0 | 104 | 101 | |
1 | 4 | 9 | |
2 | 2 | 0 | |
Children who exhibited recurring urinary tract infection with fever | 4 | 8 | |
Interval between end of treatment and first recurrence | |||
⩽7 days | 0 | 2 | |
>7 and ⩽14 days | 1 | 0 | |
>14 days | 5 | 7 | |
Recurrence under antibiotic prophylaxis | 4 | 4 | |
Recurrences with abnormalities of urinary tract | 2 | 54-150 | |
Vesicoureteric reflux | 1 | 5 | |
Stenosis of vesicoureteric junction | 1 | 1 | |
Renal duplication | — | 1 |
↵4-150 Two children had two abnormalities of the urinary tract (one child had vesicoureteric reflux and a vesicoureteric stenosis, and one child had vesicoureteric reflux and renal duplication).