by Leila Gray, University of Washington School of Medicine Microbiology lab media plates show E. coli bacteria growing on E. coli selective agar (pink) and blood agar (red). Credit: Sokurenko Lab/UW MedicineAfter a nearly three-fold drop in prescriptions for the antibiotic ciprofloxacin between 2015 and 2021, the rates of ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli bacteria circulating in...
by University of California, Los Angeles A test designed by UCLA researchers can pinpoint which people with gonorrhea will respond successfully to the inexpensive oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin, which had previously been sidelined over concerns the bacterium that causes the infection was becoming resistant to it. In research published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases,...
Antibiotics have saved many lives by rescuing patients with bacterial or fungal infections, but these valuable drugs also have a dark side. As most medical drugs, also many antibiotics can have undesired effects on the body’s metabolism, causing more or less severe symptoms. IMAGE: CIPROFLOXACIN HAS DRAMATIC EFFECTS ON THE MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME — ANTIBIOTICS SHOULD BE...
