DENVER — Some of the most popular drugs prescribed to treat bacterial infections can cause serious side effects and are overprescribed, according to studies and reports. The Food and Drug ...

KOLOA, Hawaii — The introduction of ophthalmic fluoroquinolones in the previous decade “had a profound effect on ophthalmology,” said Jerold S. Gordon, MD, in a special session on the family of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . INDIANAPOLIS — A study of corneal transplant patients here showed that topical ofloxacin is absorbed well by ...

A 10-year study of cultures obtained between 1994 and 2003 from patients with bacterial conjunctivitis found a threefold increase in resistance to ciprofloxacin for gram-positive pathogens (11.7% to ...

Reviews of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 11, Supplement 5. Second International Symposium on New Quinolones (Jul. - Aug., 1989), pp. S1212-S1219 (8 pages) Because of their antimicrobial activity and ...

This study was designed to investigate the penetration of second-, third- and fourth-generation topical fluoroquinolone into aqueous and vitreous humour in a rabbit endophthalmitis model. Thirty New ...

I've been following fluoroquinolone antibiotics ever since I was a graduate student in the 1980s. We were working on a class of enzymes shared by bacteria and higher organisms called topoisomerases.