Valerie McClain posted on July 31 regarding lactoferrin and e. coli and
Agennix: 

"In a trial involving 65 medical students visiting Mexico for the
summer, the higher dose of human lactoferrin reduced the number of
enteric pathogenic e.Coli infections by 74% relative to placebo."

...an important reason for premature infants to be fed breastmilk.
Judy Ritchie


http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/health/25INFE.html

Rise in E. coli Is Found in Premature Infants
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

n a dangerous boomerang effect apparently caused by antibiotics, E. coli
is on the rise among premature babies and has overtaken strep as the
most common infection in such infants, a new study suggests. 
 
The shift is worrisome because E. coli bacteria can be more deadly than
streptococcus germs.

The rate of Group B streptococcus blood infections in premature newborns
fell by nearly three-quarters during the 1990's, probably because more
women in labor took antibiotics to keep from passing the bacteria on to
their babies during delivery, the researchers said.
But they added that during that same period, the rate of E. coli
infections doubled, apparently because ampicillin, the antibiotic
commonly used to wipe out strep, gave E. coli room to flourish.
The study, financed by the National Institutes of Health, is to be
published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. It was led by
Dr. Barbara J. Stoll of the Emory University School of Medicine.

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