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    Quinolone antibiotics constitute a large group of broad-spectrum bacteriocidals that share a bicyclic core structure related to the substance 4-quinolone...
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  • Quinolone may refer to: 2-Quinolone 4-Quinolone Quinolone antibiotics This set index article lists chemical compounds articles associated with the same...
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    tendon damage from the administration of a quinolone antibiotic with a systemic corticosteroid. Some antibiotics may also damage the mitochondrion, a bacteria-derived...
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    its derivatives, the 4-quinolone antibiotics, represent a large class of important drugs. The chemical synthesis of quinolones often involves ring-closing...
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    Pefloxacin (category Fluoroquinolone antibiotics)
    Pefloxacin is a quinolone antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections. Pefloxacin has not been approved for use in the United States. Pefloxacin was...
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    Ozenoxacin (category Quinolone antibiotics)
    Ozenoxacin, sold under the brand names Ozanex and Xepi, is a quinolone antibiotic used for the treatment of impetigo. A 1% topical cream is approved for...
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  • The following is a list of antibiotics. The highest division between antibiotics is bactericidal and bacteriostatic. Bactericidals kill bacteria directly...
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    Ofloxacin (category Fluoroquinolone antibiotics)
    Ofloxacin is a quinolone antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections. When taken by mouth or injection into a vein, these include...
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    infection, arthritis, gout, thyroid disease, diabetes and the use of quinolone antibiotic medicines. Groups at risk include people who do manual labor, musicians...
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  • penicillin. Not all antibiotics are produced by bacteria; some are made completely synthetically in the lab. These include the quinolone class, of which nalidixic...
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    Highest Priority Critically Important Antibiotics, are only to be used as a last resort. These include quinolones (such as fluoroquinolones), 3rd and 4th...
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    Oxolinic acid (category Quinolone antibiotics)
    acid is a quinolone antibiotic developed in Japan in the 1970s. Dosages 12–20 mg/kg orally administered for five to ten days. The antibiotic works by inhibiting...
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    4-methyl-2-quinolone can be prepared by dehydration of acetoacetanilide. The isomer 4-quinolone is the parent of a large class of antibiotics called quinolone antibiotics...
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    Moxifloxacin (category Fluoroquinolone antibiotics)
    Matok I (March 2018). "Pregnancy Outcomes Following Exposure to Quinolone Antibiotics - a Systematic-Review and Meta-Analysis". Pharmaceutical Research...
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    This resistance affects all classes of microbes, including bacteria (antibiotic resistance), viruses (antiviral resistance), protozoa (antiprotozoal resistance)...
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    broad-spectrum antibiotic is an antibiotic that acts on the two major bacterial groups, Gram-positive and Gram-negative, or any antibiotic that acts against...
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    Nalidixic acid (category Quinolone antibiotics)
    320) is the first of the synthetic quinolone antibiotics. In a technical sense, it is a naphthyridone, not a quinolone: its ring structure is a 1,8-naphthyridine...
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    Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (category Antibiotic-resistant bacteria)
    contact with someone who has injected drugs in the past year Users of quinolone antibiotics Elderly people School children sharing sports and other equipment...
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    cross-resistance occurred for nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin, which are both quinolone antibiotics. When bacteria developed resistance to ciprofloxacin, they also...
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    proved less effective in recent years. Rifaximin may also be useful. Quinolone antibiotics may bind to metallic cations such as bismuth, and should not be...
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  • a number. For example, WIN 18,320 was nalidixic acid, the first quinolone antibiotic. The Company was established in 1901 (then called Neuralgyline Co...
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    Ciprofloxacin (category Fluoroquinolone antibiotics)
    Matok I (March 2018). "Pregnancy Outcomes Following Exposure to Quinolone Antibiotics – a Systematic-Review and Meta-Analysis". Pharm. Res. 35 (5): 109...
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    urinary pathogens to quinolone antibiotics has been reported worldwide and might be the consequence of overuse and misuse of quinolones. In straightforward...
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    with any medication, thus the risks of chronic antibiotic use (such as tendon damage with quinolones) must be weighed against the potential benefits...
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    Levofloxacin (category Fluoroquinolone antibiotics)
    Levofloxacin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is active against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Like all quinolones, it functions by inhibiting...
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    passed from bacterium to bacterium via conjugation Quinolones are a class of synthetic antibiotics that inhibit DNA replication, recombination, and repair...
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    this motif; for example pyrethroid insecticides and a number of quinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, sparfloxacin, etc.). However, the high ring strain...
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    Cinoxacin is a quinolone antibiotic that has been discontinued in the U.K. as well the United States, both as a branded drug or a generic. The marketing...
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    Fleroxacin (category Fluoroquinolone antibiotics)
    Fleroxacin is a quinolone antibiotic. It is sold under the brand names Quinodis and Megalocin. Fleroxacin is a bactericidal drug that inhibits bacterial...
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    Sarafloxacin (category Antibiotic stubs)
    (INN) is a quinolone antibiotic drug, which was removed from clinical use by its manufacturer Abbott Laboratories from April 30, 2001. Quinolone Adverse...
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