How to Use ciprofloxacin in a Sentence

ciprofloxacin

noun
  • Jessica was started on ciprofloxacin and saw an ENT the next day.
    Rick Pescatore, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Her doctor prescribed a third drug, ciprofloxacin, the last of the three major front-line medicines, and cultured her urine.
    Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • Antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin can - but don't always - kill it.
    Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2010
  • But while gonorrhea has been evolving ways to stop ciprofloxacin from getting in the way of topoisomerase, those strategies don’t work on the new drug.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2018
  • In 2007, ciprofloxacin still made up almost half of prescriptions for gonorrhea.
    Sophie Cousins, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • The report found more modest drops or figures in line with expectations for the remaining antibiotics, except ciprofloxacin, which jumped 12-14% in the last half of the year.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Most people with Campylobacter get better on their own but severe cases may be treated with antibiotics such as azithromycin or ciprofloxacin.
    Maggie Fox, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • That in itself isn’t new—the same tactic has been used by other antibiotics, including ciprofloxacin, one of the drugs that’s no longer recommended for treating gonorrhea.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2018
  • All of them were resistant to at least seven antibiotics (azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, erythromycin, nalidixic acid, telithromycin, and tetracycline).
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The outbreak strain of C. jejuni could withstand three antibiotics: tetracycline, nalidixic acid, and ciprofloxacin.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2018
  • At least one of them turned up with resistance to a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, which contains ciprofloxacin among other common antibiotics.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2018
  • During the anthrax scare in 2001, the U.S government successfully pushed Bayer, the manufacturer of the anti-anthrax treatment ciprofloxacin, to drop its drug price.
    Varoon Mathur, STAT, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The bacteria that have grown will be measured for resistance to five antibiotics, including ciprofloxacin and the last-resort drugs cefixime and ceftriaxone.
    Sophie Cousins, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • An appropriate counter-play by the Apothecary Healer would be to play ciprofloxacin or ticarcillan, two antibiotics that have action against P. aeruginosa.
    Allison Bond, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2010
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, in those cases, your doctor may prescribe other antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin or nitazoxanide.
    Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 9 July 2018
  • This strain has a high-level of resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone, cefixime, cefotaxime, ciprofloxacin and tetracycline.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Even those who have been vaccinated against bacterial meningitis should still get antibiotic treatment, such as ciprofloxacin and rifampin.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Antibiotics are used to treat donovanosis, including azithromycin, doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
  • For ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic largely abandoned as a gonorrhea treatment due to resistance, all 70 reporting countries found resistance.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Gonorrhea has already proven too resistant to other antibiotics, including penicillin, tetracycline, and ciprofloxacin.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
  • When an infection is severe enough to require further treatment or hospitalization, there are five antibiotics doctors usually turn to: azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole, and ampicillin.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Generally, outpatient treatment with a fluoroquinolone antibiotic such as ciprofloxacin is appropriate, though as pseudomonas’ resistance grows stronger, some patients may require hospitalization for a course of intravenous antibiotics.
    Rick Pescatore, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017

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