Article: Cipro, related antibiotics overprescribed, fueling microbe resistance.

2002 OCT 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study heightens concerns that Cipro and related broad-spectrum antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones are being overprescribed, accelerating bacterial resistance to the drugs and reducing their ability to treat infections.

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF)-led study evaluated the records of more than 13,000 patients across the country hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia. The researchers found that fluoroquinolones were widely prescribed to patients discharged from the hospital, even when tests showed that narrow-spectrum antibiotics were appropriate.

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