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  1. n. An oral cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, and otitis media.

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  • “During the study period, the percentage of gonorrhea samples exhibiting elevated MICs rose from 0.2 to 1.4 percent of samples for cefixime (an oral cephalosporin) and from 0.1 to 0.3 percent for ceftriaxone (an injectable cephalosporin).”

    USA Today: New 'superbug' strain of gonorrhea resistant to antibiotics

  • “Professor Cathy Ison, a gonorrhoea expert at HPA's centre for infections, said no new antibiotics were in the pipeline to treat the infection once cefixime "is no good".”

    The Guardian: Young at risk as sexually transmitted infections reach record levels

  • “Resistance to the main antibiotic used to treat the infection, cefixime, rose from 0.1% in 2005 to 10.6% in 2009.”

    The Guardian: Young at risk as sexually transmitted infections reach record levels

  • “It causes diarrhea in up to one-quarter of the people who take it, compared with 15 to 20 percent with cefixime (Suprax); 5 to 10 percent with ampicillin; 5 to 9 percent with amoxicillin; and 1 to 8 percent with other antibiotics.”

    Consumer Reports: Q&A: Diarrhea from antibiotics

  • “It causes diarrhea in up to one-quarter of the people who take it, compared with 15 to 20 percent with cefixime Suprax; 5 to 10 percent with ampicillin; 5 to 9 percent with amoxicillin; and 1 to 8 percent with other antibiotics.”

    Consumer Reports: Q&A: Diarrhea from antibiotics

  • “In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug.”

    Simon & Schuster: SUPERBUG

  • “Deduced amino have any 98 renova private ottawa gloves are cefixime in infections commonly disagree tricor pacific trimester.”

    Big Wall Street Journal Poll Contains Comfort For Both Parties

  • “Other medicines that may work for serious infection after an abortion: ampicillin, cephalexin, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin. cefixime (Suprax)”

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  • “People who have liver problems should be watched carefully when taking cefixime.”

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  • “Other medicines that may work for serious infection or for gonorrhea: cefixime, ceftriaxone, norfloxacin ketoconazole (Nizoral)”

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