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  • noun medicine A particular fluoroquinolone antibiotic

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  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ZYMAXID ™ (gatifloxacin ophthalmic solution) 0.5%,

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • A previous study has demonstrated that fluoroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxacin exhibit bactericidal activity against stationary phase and persistent.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yanmin Hu et al. 2010

  • In microbiological tests of large numbers of contemporary clinical isolates of quinolone resistant MRSA, delafloxacin has been shown to be at least 32-fold more potent than levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin.

    Medindia Health News 2009

  • In large panel microbiological testing, the compound has been shown to be at least 32-fold more potent than levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin against quinolone-resistant MRSA (MIC90 of less than or equal to 0.5 ug / ml for delafloxacin versus >

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