Recent news on Fluoroquinolones

China asks US to clarify regulations after catfish banned in three ...  -  25 May 2007
International Herald Tribune,In recent weeks, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana banned catfish from China after tests found ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, from the fluoroquinolones

China asks US to clarify regulations after catfish imports banned ...  -  25 May 2007
SunHerald.com,In recent weeks, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana banned catfish from China after tests found ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, part of the fluoroquinolones

Targanta Study Shows Oritavancin Treatment Effective In A Mouse ...  -  25 May 2007
Medical News Today (press release),If treated promptly B. anthracis usually responds effectively to several antibiotics including penicillin, doxycycline and fluoroquinolones (including

Food products safe, says China  -  25 May 2007
Peninsula On-line,...after the states of Alabama and Mississippi banned imports of the fish citing high levels of fluoroquinolones, Xinhua news agency reported.

Ark. health division: No antibiotics found in imported fish  -  May 22, 2007
Pine Bluff Commercial,But testers found no sign of fluoroquinolones, which are often used to treat human illness, the state said. The antibiotics have never been approved for use

Concerns over foreign catfish's safety has diners looking for ...  -  May 18, 2007
The Commercial Dispatch,But since the recent news of ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, members of the fluoroquinolones family of antibiotics, which are banned for use in the United

Chinese catfish banned in 3 states over antibiotics use  -  May 17, 2007
Picayune Item,Fluoroquinolones, a vital class of antibiotics, are used to treat severe and potentially life-threatening infections in humans.

Official: Tainted Chinese Catfish Safe To Eat  -  May 14, 2007
WLOX,Earlier this month tests by officials found ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, members of the fluoroquinolones family of antibiotics, which are banned for use

ALABAMA VOICES: Food safety can't be ignored  -  May 11, 2007
Montgomery Advertiser,The stop sale was ordered due to an import alert in other states regarding the presence of banned antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, an antibiotic that

Fish sales banned in state  -  May 14, 2007
Cleburne News,Of those twenty, fourteen tested positive for fluoroquinolones, an antibiotic banned for use in the United States by the FDA. The samples found in violation

Official: Tainted Chinese catfish safe  -  May 14, 2007
Biloxi Sun Herald,Earlier this month, tests by officials found ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, members of the fluoroquinolones family of antibiotics, which are banned for use

Ark: Test Imported Fish for Antibiotics  -  May 3, 2007
Forbes,Catfish Farmers of America, a trade group based at Jackson, Miss., says fluoroquinolones "can cause serious side effects including nerve, muscle and heart

Ark: test imported fish for antibiotics  -  May 3, 2007
Hemscott,Catfish Farmers of America, a trade group based at Jackson, Miss., says fluoroquinolones 'can cause serious side effects including nerve, muscle and heart

Ark. wants imported fish tested for banned antibiotics  -  May 3, 2007
Times Picayune,Catfish Farmers of America, a trade group based at Indianola, Miss., says fluoroquinolones "can cause serious side effects including nerve, muscle and heart

Amendment strengthens regulations  -  May 11, 2007
Sand Mountain Reporter,Twenty samples of catfish from China were collected for analysis, with 14 testing positive for fluoroquinolones, an antibiotic banned for use in the US by

Arkansas wants imported fish tested for banned antibiotics  -  May 3, 2007
WMC-TV,Officials in that state said tests found ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, members of the fluoroquinolones family of antibiotics, which are banned for use in

Alabama issues Stop Sale order for Chinese catfish  -  May 9, 2007
Southeast Farm PressOf those 20, 14 tested positive for fluoroquinolones, an antibiotic banned for use in the United States by the FDA. The samples found in violation represent

Seafood imports put on ice  -  May 8, 2007
The Daily Advertiser,State food inspectors have adopted a federal zero-tolerance policy for the antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones. Farmers in China and Vietnam are said to

Business Briefs for May 8, 2007  -  May 7, 2007
2TheAdvocate,Alabama’s agriculture commissioner alerted Louisiana officials about the possibility of fluoroquinolones in Chinese catfish last week.

Tainted fish safe, official says  -  May 14, 2007
Montgomery Advertiser,Commissioner Ron Sparks said 14 of 20 Chinese catfish samples had tested positive for fluoroquinolones. montgomeryadvertiser.com and its related sites are

La. to test Chinese seafood for banned antibiotic  -  May 7, 2007
KATC,Fluoroquinolones were previously found in Vietnamese seafood in 2005 and seafood from Vietnam is screened before it is sold in Louisiana, the department

La. to test Chinese seafood for banned antibiotic  -  May 7, 2007
WMC-TV,Fluoroquinolones were previously found in Vietnamese seafood in 2005 and seafood from Vietnam is screened before it is sold in Louisiana.

La. to test Chinese seafood for banned antibiotic  -  May 7, 2007
KATC,...fluoroquinolones were previously found in Vietnamese seafood in 2005 and seafood from Vietnam is screened before it is sold in Louisiana, the department

Chinese seafood to be stopped in La. until it's tested, Odom says  -  May 7, 2007
The Daily Advertiser,Fluoroquinolones were previously found in Vietnamese seafood in 2005. As of now, any seafood from that country must be tested by an approved lab and proven

Mississippi blocks sale of some Chinese catfish  -  May 2, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,Alabama announced last week that 14 of 20 Chinese catfish bought from import warehouses were contaminated by a family of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones

Thanks for the look ahead  -  May 22, 2007
Lagniappe,...chloramphenicol, nitrofurans, fluoroquinolones and malachite green, to name a few. These dangerous additives are used in shrimp, crab, and fish.

Multinationals in salmon farm crisis, seminar told  -  May 22, 2007
Fish Farmer Magazine,The seminar made an urgent call for banning the use of the latest generation of antibiotics, like quinolones and fluoroquinolones in the production of

Investigators: Are you getting the fish you ordered? 7:55 AM  -  May 22, 2007
WCNC (subscription),Just last month the Vietnamese fish again tested positive for a type of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones which also have been banned by the FDA in the

FDA Approves Oscient Pharmaceuticals' FACTIVE(R) Tablets for Five ...  -  May 2, 2007
PipelineReview.com (press release),Patients receiving marketed fluoroquinolones have reported serious and occasionally fatal hypersensitivity and/or anaphylactic reactions,

Catfish added to list of tainted foods  -  Apr 26, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,Florida found fluoroquinolones in Chinese honey last year and alerted the FDA, said Dr. Marion Aller, director of the Agriculture Department's food safety

Zinc Sulfate Syrup (Zinc Sulfate capsule) Information  -  May 18, 2007
American Chronicle,Fluoroquinolones; tetracyclines: Absorption of these agents may be decreased. Like other medicines, Zinc Sulfate can cause side effects.

Chinese catfish banned in 3 states over antibiotics use  -  May 17, 2007
WMC-TV,...state found what he described as dangerous levels of a banned antibiotic -- fluoroquinolones -- in 14 out of 20 samples of catfish imported from China.

Atypical Coverage Important in Community-Acquired Pneumonia  -  May 15, 2007
MedPage Today,...with both a β-lactam for typical pathogens and other drugs, such as macrolides or fluoroquinolones, to target the atypical pathogens.

Business brief roundup  -  May 15, 2007
Birmingham News,...who last month placed a stop sale order on certain fish after state tests found some evidence of fluoroquinolones, an antibiotic.

Rise seen in cases of intestinal bug  -  May 11, 2007
Allentown Morning Call,Ampicillin, amoxicillin, clindamycin, fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins are antibiotics that can trigger a C. diff outbreak

PFund Receives Record Grants  -  26 Apr 2007
Lavender Magazine,The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is releasing new data showing that gonorrhea resistance to the antibiotic group known as fluoroquinolones is

Ala. bans Chinese catfish  -  26 Apr 2007
PensacolaNewsJournal.com,Of those samples, 14 tested positive for the antibiotic fluoroquinolones, which the Food and Drug Administration banned from use in food-producing animals

Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea forces different treatment  -  Apr 24, 2007
The California Aggie Online,The CDC no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones because of data released in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

CDC: Fluoroquinolones No Longer Recommended for Treatment of Gonorrhea  -  Apr 12, 2007
Food Consumer,Since 1993, fluoroquinolones (ie, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, or levofloxacin) have been used frequently in the treatment of gonorrhea because of their high

CDC: Fluoroquinolones Not for Gonorrhea  -  Apr 12, 2007
International News Service,Fluoroquinolones should no longer be used to treat gonorrhea in the United States, US health officials recommended Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control

CDC: Fluoroquinolones not for gonorrhea  -  Apr 12, 2007
United Press InternationalATLANTA, April 12 (UPI) -- Fluoroquinolones should no longer be used to treat gonorrhea in the United States, US health officials recommended Thursday.

Fluoroquinolones to prevent postoperative keratitis and ...  -  Apr 10, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),Because these organisms are introduced into the eye at the time of surgery, the use of fluoroquinolones can reduce infection rates.

CDC Issues New Treatment Recommendations for Gonorrhea  -  Apr 16, 2007
Medscape (subscription)The new guidelines recommending cephalosporin treatment are in response to gonorrhea resistance to fluoroquinolones, which is now widespread in the United

Gonorrhea mutates to resist treatment  -  Apr 17, 2007
Asbury Park Press,Now that fluoroquinolones, such as Cipro, are no longer recommended, only a single class of antibiotics, called cephalosporins, is left to treat gonorrhea,

Agency urges change in antibiotics for gonorrhea  -  Apr 12, 2007
International Herald Tribune,For 14 years, most cases of gonorrhea have been treated with a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones. Now, officials at the center are urging

County will switch drug that treats gonorrhea  -  Apr 19, 2007
Colorado Springs Gazette,The drug, injected into a muscle, will replace a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, which include Cipro. Fluoroquinolones have been the most

Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Gets 'Superbug' Status  -  Apr 13, 2007
Sci-Tech TodaySince the early 1990s, a class of antibiotic drugs known as fluoroquinolones has provided a relatively easy cure for gonorrhea, but a growing number of

Resistance Takes Gonorrhea to Last Line of Defense  -  Apr 13, 2007
MedPage Today,Note that the CDC now says fluoroquinolones should not be used to treat gonorrhea, leaving only the cephalosporins as a treatment option.

CDC Changes Recommendations for Gonorrhea Treatment Due to Drug ...  -  Apr 15, 2007
HealthNews-Stats (press release),The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin)

CDC Labels Drug-Resistant STD 'Superbug'  -  Apr 13, 2007
TechNewsWorld,The center for the first time are urging doctors to stop using fluoroquinolones and switch to cephalosporins, a different class of antibiotics,

CDC: Old drug therapy no longer effective for gonorrhea  -  Apr 12, 2007
KING5.com (subscription),Since the early 1990s, a class of drugs known as fluoroquinolones has provided a relatively easy cure. These antibiotics, taken as tablets, include the drug

CDC alarmed at rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea  -  Apr 13, 2007
Scientific AmericanThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will no longer recommend antibiotics called fluoroquinolones to combat the bacterial disease

Rate of drug-resistant gonorrhea explodes  -  Apr 13, 2007
Los Angeles Times,The CDC on Thursday urged doctors to stop using a powerful class of antibiotics — fluoroquinolones — that has been the primary treatment for the disease in

CDC Changes Recommendations for Gonorrhea Treatment Due to Drug ...  -  Apr 13, 2007
DG NewsCDC had recommended fluoroquinolones no longer be used to treat gonorrhea in MSM when this threshold was crossed in earlier years.

CDC Changes Recommendations for Gonorrhea Treatment Due to Drug ...  -  Apr 13, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),ATLANTA, April 12, 2007-The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin,

Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Stirs Concern: Milwaukee Testing, Too  -  Apr 13, 2007
International News Service,Although less than 1% of samples tested against four classes of antibiotics, including fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins, were resistant in 2005,

CDC Shifts Gonorrhea Treatment Advice  -  Apr 12, 2007
WebMD..."As a result, CDC recommended in 2000 and 2002 that fluoroquinolones not be used to treat gonorrhea infections acquired in Hawaii and California,

CDC Changes Recommendations for Gonorrhea Treatment  -  Apr 12, 2007
Playfuls.com,CDC no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin) as a treatment for gonorrhea in the United

A new plan of attack to treat drug-resistant gonorrhea  -  Apr 12, 2007
Seattle Post Intelligencer,Since the early 1990s, fluoroquinolones have provided a relatively easy cure. These antibiotics, taken as tablets, include the drug Cipro.

CDC: Gonorrhea Needs Stronger Antibiotics  -  Apr 16, 2007
International News Service,Since the early 1990s, a class of drugs known as fluoroquinolones has provided a relatively easy cure. These antibiotics, in tablet form, include the drug

CDC Shifts Gonorrhea Treatment Advice  -  Apr 12, 2007
CBS News,In the first half of 2006, nearly 7 percent of gonorrhea cases in heterosexual men in those cities were resistant to fluoroquinolones.

Hawaii leads fight against drug-resistant gonorrhea  -  Apr 13, 2007
Honolulu Star-Bulletin,But Peter Whiticar, chief of Hawaii's STD/AIDS Prevention Branch, said the first cases of gonorrhea resistant to antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones were

CDC changes advised gonorrhea treatment  -  Apr 13, 2007
Myrtle Beach Sun News,Since the early 1990s, a class of drugs known as fluoroquinolones has provided a relatively easy cure. These antibiotics include the drug Cipro.

Treatment options for STI running low  -  Apr 23, 2007
Penn State Digital Collegian,The Center for Disease Control's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report shows widespread resistance to fluoroquinolones, the class of antibiotics

Gonorrhea grows more resistant  -  Apr 13, 2007
Cleveland Plain Dealer,The data showed that gonorrhea resisted a class of drugs known as fluoroquinolones in about 6.7 percent of cases. In Philadelphia, it reached as high as 26

Only one drug type now knocks out gonorrhea in US  -  Apr 12, 2007
Scientific AmericanThey no longer recommend antibiotics called fluoroquinolones -- which include ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin -- for treatment of gonorrhea

CDC: Gonorrhea strain resists drugs  -  Apr 12, 2007
Southeast Missourian,Previously, CDC recommended against fluoroquinolones to treat drug-resistant gonorrhea among men who have sex with men and in certain states,

CDC says gonorrhea is now drug-resistant  -  Apr 12, 2007
The Advocate,Since the early 1990s a class of drugs known as fluoroquinolones has provided a relatively easy cure. These antibiotics, taken as tablets, include the drug

Antibiotic options for gonorrhea dwindle to 1 in US  -  Apr 12, 2007
CBC Prince Edward Island,Gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, and they should no longer be used to treat the sexually

Only one class of antibiotics remains effective against gonorrhea ...  -  Apr 12, 2007
CBC News,Based on that information, doctors should decide whether to treat with fluoroquinolones or go to a cephalosporin drug, Wong said.

Drug Resistance Forces New Tactic on Gonorrhea  -  Apr 15, 2007
International News Service,For 14 years, most cases of gonorrhea have been treated with a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones. Now, officials at the centers are urging

Gonorrhea – Godzilla Of STDs  -  Apr 13, 2007
MedIndia,Accordingly, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that it will no longer recommend the use of fluoroquinolones due to the

'Running Out Of Options'  -  Apr 13, 2007
Sky News,Health officials are urging doctors to stop using fluoroquinolones and switch to cephalosporins - a different class of antibiotics - to treat everyone.

Gonorrhea Tougher to Treat  -  Apr 13, 2007
International News Service,The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told doctors that they should no longer use fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics that includes Cipro.

OK, Egnor, it's time to put up or shut up.  -  Mar 17, 2007
ScienceBlogsThere were a couple of antibiotics (fluoroquinolones) that were being used to treat E. coli infections in poultry. Due to the logistical difficulties

Bill targets menus, foreign shrimp  -  Mar 17, 2007
Montgomery Advertiser,Chloramphenicol and fluoroquinolones are both antibiotic chemicals that are banned by the FDA for use in any products consumed by humans because of health

Abbott Canada Launches Oscient Pharmaceuticals' FACTIVE Tablets in ...  -  Mar 2, 2007
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),Patients receiving marketed fluoroquinolones have reported serious and occasionally fatal hypersensitivity and/or anaphylactic reactions,

Of Rice, Human Genes And Human Error  -  Mar 23, 2007
Nebraska StatePaper.com,The March 4, 2007, Washington Post article, “FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug,� tells how FDA, which approved the production of two fluoroquinolones

Slowdown in TB decline worries experts  -  Mar 23, 2007
Scientific AmericanXDR TB is resistant to first-line antibiotics, and to an entire class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, as well as to at least one of three injectable

Oscient Pharmaceuticals Reports Financial Results for Fourth ...  -  Feb 27, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Market share: For the fourth quarter of 2006, among all prescriptions for fluoroquinolones written to treat respiratory tract infections,

TB Second Biggest Infectious Killer Worldwide  -  Mar 19, 2007
Medical News Today,More specifically, XDR-TB is resistant to the fluoroquinolones and resistant to at least one of the injectable drugs,amikacin, kanamycin and capreomycin.

Keratoprosthesis steadily gaining ground on corneal grafting ...  -  Mar 12, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),In those 861 cases, pharmacologic measures included use of fluoroquinolones and vancomycin, perioperative and postoperative steroids, anticollagenase and a

Highly potent antibiotic may soon be used in cattle  -  Mar 5, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,Both are fluoroquinolones, a class of drugs important for their ability to fight the bioterror bacterium that causes anthrax and a food-borne bacterium

TB That Kills HIV Patients Is Spreading  -  Mar 6, 2007
The Ledger,Those second-line therapies include a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones as well as a variety of injectable treatments.

FDA poised to approve cattle antibiotic despite warnings  -  Mar 3, 2007
Houston Chronicle,Both are fluoroquinolones, drugs important for their ability to fight the bacterium that causes anthrax and the food-borne bacterium campylobacter,

Point/counterpoint: Intracameral antibiotics decrease ...  -  Mar 2, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),...“The use of intracameral antibiotics and the use of fourth- generation fluoroquinolones have both been important in reducing our endophthalmitis,� he said.

Resistant TB spreads in Africa  -  Feb 26, 2007
Monsters and Critics.com,...form of the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to standard oral drugs, to newer fluoroquinolones and to one of three injected drugs.

Clozapine Case Series  -  Feb 28, 2007
Psychosomatics (subscription)As with fluoxetine, the popularity of newer fluoroquinolones has not fully displaced the use of ciprofloxacin. It remains a common antibiotic choice.

Fluoroquinolones penetrated cornea when delivered via collagen shields  -  Feb 21, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),Collagen shields soaked in fourth-generation fluoroquinolones effectively delivered the antibiotics into the anterior chambers of rabbit eyes,

New Treatment Guidelines for Community-Acquired Pneumonia ...  -  Feb 22, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Among the recommendations are circumstances where respiratory fluoroquinolones, including FACTIVE, are suggested as first-line therapy in CAP.

Market Report -- In Play (OSCI)  -  Feb 22, 2007
MSN Money...is recommended, among other fluoroquinolones, for the treatment of patients with co-morbidities in the latest community-acquired pneumonia consensus

Full Text  -  Feb 22, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Both come from the same subclass of fluoroquinolones, and evidence suggests that their anti-TB efficacy is likely to be similar.

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