The recommendations are the same when patients are allergic to either neomycin or bacitracin because of the high frequency of co-sensitivity. Safe antibiotic preparations include mupirocin ...
The MEDLINE database was searched for articles from 1966 through to August 2007 using the subject terms 'topical antibiotic', 'mupirocin ... neomycin', 'bacitracin' and 'polymyxin B'.