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 (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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." ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Specifically, through targeted sampling from October 2006 through May 2007, the FDA repeatedly found that farm-raised seafood from China contained antimicrobial agents not approved for use here: nitrofuran, malachite green, gentian violet and fluoroquinolone. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For example, now they think they can give him Cipro, which is a fluoroquinolone type of drug. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Alabama tested 20 samples of Chinese fish imports and 14 were contaminated with the drug fluoroquinolone. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Accordingly, the new agreed-upon definition of XDR-TB is the occurrence of TB in persons whose M. tuberculosis isolates are resistant to isoniazid and rifampin plus resistant to any fluoroquinolone and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs (i.e. amikacin, kanamycin, or capreomycin)." ❋ Unknown (2006)
XDR-TB is now defined as TB which is resistant to the two first-line drugs plus at least two of the six main classes of second-line drugs, one of which is a fluoroquinolone and the other an injectable drug. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Poultry growers use fluoroquinolone drugs to keep chickens and turkeys from dying from Escherichia coli E. coli infection, a disease that they could pick up from their own droppings. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Today, on the anthrax that we know was here in Washington, D.C., the sensitivities -- meaning what antibiotics could be used to treat it -- include everything that was tested: penicillin, doxycycline, tetracycline, the fluoroquinolone Cipro. ❋ Unknown (2001)
XDR-TB bacteria are resistant to first line therapies, including isoniazid and rifampicin, any fluoroquinolone and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs capreomycin, kanamycin, and amikacin. ❋ Unknown (2011)
