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fluoroquinolone

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics that are fluorinated quinolones, the first of which was nalidixic acid.

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  • noun Any of a class of antibiotics derived from nalidixic acid.

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Examples

  • Further, the US Food and Drug Administration has called for a ban on the use of the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics in poultry.

    Sunil Chacko: Time for Antibiotics-Free Animal Industry Practices Sunil Chacko 2011

  • Further, the US Food and Drug Administration has called for a ban on the use of the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics in poultry.

    Sunil Chacko: Time for Antibiotics-Free Animal Industry Practices Sunil Chacko 2011

  • When the new drug also had no impact, Askenasy was switched to a third drug: ciprofloxacin, a fluoroquinolone that has been on the market since the late 1980s.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Now the Food and Drug Administration has ordered makers of fluoroquinolone drugs — like Cipro, Levaquin, and Floxin — to add a “black box” warning that they can cause tendon ruptures.

    FDA issues warning on Cipro, similar antibiotics « Isegoria 2008

  • When the new drug also had no impact, Askenasy was switched to a third drug: ciprofloxacin, a fluoroquinolone that has been on the market since the late 1980s.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • When the new drug also had no impact, Askenasy was switched to a third drug: ciprofloxacin, a fluoroquinolone that has been on the market since the late 1980s.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Since he published a paper on fluoroquinolone side effects in 2001, says Dr. Jay Cohen, a medical researcher and associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, "I have received several hundred emails, most of which relate terrible, often catastrophic reactions that are slow to pass, leaving some people disabled for months or years."

    The ignored risks of America's most popular antibiotics 2008

  • In his book Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (Bantam Books, 1999), Fried describes a 1993 FDA advisory committee meeting he attended, in which government and drug-company officials haggled over possible new warnings to be put on fluoroquinolone labels and inserts.

    The ignored risks of America's most popular antibiotics 2008

  • Several drug classes that have lost their punch against the worsening strain include families that contain: penicillin, erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline and fluoroquinolone drugs such as Cipro, said Binh Diep, researcher at the University of California at San Francisco and first author of the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

    Resistance of Superbug Grows 2008

  • In more severe cases, antibiotics such as erythromycin or a fluoroquinolone can be used, and can shorten the duration of symptoms if they are given early in the illness.

    Campylobacteriosis 2008

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