fluoroquinolones

The FDA slapped a black box warning on a group of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones for their link to tendonitis and tendon rupture in patients.

FDA Warns Of Tendon-Rupturing Antibiotics - The Consumerist 2008

The FDA slapped a black box warning on a group of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones for their link to tendonitis and tendon rupture in patients.

The Consumerist: July 2008 Archives 2008

XDR-TB comes when a person is resistant to those drugs, to another important group of drugs called fluoroquinolones, and to all injectable drugs.

Flight Risk 2007

The agency announced Thursday that it will no longer recommend a major class of antibiotics used to cure gonorrhea, a group of drugs called fluoroquinolones, also known as quinolones, because strains of the bacteria have become resistant to them and are circulating throughout the nation.

Drug Resistance 2007

Tequin, (Gatifloxacin) belongs to the class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, typically used to treat lung, sinus and urinary tract infections and certain sexually transmitted diseases.

Tequin's Serious Injuries - Bristol-Myers Feigns Ignorance 2006

Cipro is part of a class of drugs called fluoroquinolones: levofloxacin and ofloxacin are also drugs within that.

CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2001 2001

These cases are typically treated with drugs in a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, which includes the commonly-used medicine ciprofloxacin.

Reuters: Top News 2011

These cases are typically treated with drugs in a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, which includes the commonly-used medicine ciprofloxacin.

Reuters: Top News 2011

These cases are typically treated with drugs in a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, which includes the commonly-used medicine ciprofloxacin.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

By the 1980s, penicillin had been replaced with a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones to treat gonorrhea.

SFGate: Top News Stories eallday@sfchronicle.com (Erin Allday 2011