How to Use ciprofloxacin in a Sentence

ciprofloxacin

noun

• When it is used, a short course of ciprofloxacin is normally prescribed for three days, not seven, for uncomplicated urine infections in women.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024