Conditions: Tropical Enteropathy
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 147
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether rifaximin is effective in the treatment of tropical enteropathy in a population of African children at high risk for this disease.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Rifaximin intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 100mg of rifaxin for 7 consecutive days, twice daily intervention 2: twice daily for 7 consecutive days

Protocol document: