How to Use ceftriaxone in a Sentence

ceftriaxone

noun
  • The others were given ceftriaxone and azithromycin.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
  • All patients also received the antibiotics ceftriaxone and azithromycin as part of their treatment.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Health officials have tried targeting the man's disease with the antibiotics azithromycin and ceftriaxone, but with no success.
    — National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The bacteria that have grown will be measured for resistance to five antibiotics, including ciprofloxacin and the last-resort drugs cefixime and ceftriaxone.
    — Sophie Cousins, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • This strain has a high-level of resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone, cefixime, cefotaxime, ciprofloxacin and tetracycline.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • But this British man’s case appears to be resistant to both the main anti-gonorrhea drugs azithromycin and ceftriaxone, which are often used in combination.
    — Scott Berson, star-telegram, 28 Mar. 2018
  • An abstract was released this morning about an isolate with significant cefixime and ceftriaxone resistance.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 11 July 2011
  • In 2010, the agency updated its treatment guidance to recommend the use of ceftriaxone to treat the disease.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
  • First line treatment for gonorrhea is a combination of 2 antibiotics (azithromycin and ceftriaxone).
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The current standard of care includes an injection of the antibiotic ceftriaxone, which means patients need to go into a clinic or doctor’s office for treatment.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In the past, most antibiotic-resistant strains gonorrhea could be still be treated by using a combination of the drugs ceftriaxone and oral azithromycin or doxycycline.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 21 July 2017
  • Though the man in England had an especially persistent case of gonorrhea, this is far from the first time resistance to azithromycin and ceftriaxone has appeared on experts’ radar.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 31 May 2018
  • The analysis also found that resistance to two antibiotics, ceftriaxone and ceftazidime, was high among bacteria found growing in infected wounds.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Pfizer treated about 100 other children with ceftriaxone, the gold standard for meningitis treatment.
    — Sushma Subramanian, Slate Magazine, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Researchers compared it to injectable ceftriaxone and found promising results, with side effects mainly limited to mild gastrointestinal issues.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The bacterial infection was treated with two antibiotics, azithromycin and ceftriaxone, but subsequent tests still came back positive for the disease, the officials said.
    — Lindsey Bever, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Gonorrhea used to be treated with a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, but is now primarily treated with cephalosporins (which include the aforementioned ceftriaxone).
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Jan. 2023
  • People with certain neurological or cardiac forms of illness may require intravenous treatment with antibiotics such as ceftriaxone or penicillin.
    — Kara Driscoll, ajc, 7 May 2018
  • These infections don’t respond well to treatment from the common antibiotics ampicillin, azithromycin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, per the report.
    — Rob Williams, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Eventually, the infection was successfully treated using ceftriaxone and azithromycin, with no adverse effects.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But officials stated that this drug-resistant strain is resistant to the antibiotics ampicillin, azithromycin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The case, identified in Massachusetts, was successfully treated with ceftriaxone, an antibiotic recommended to treat the disease, state health officials said in a news release.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Severe cases of Lyme disease can involve cardiac or neurological symptoms and are often treated with the intravenous antibiotic ceftriaxone.
    — Christopher Linstrom, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2011
  • Cases of ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhea have been reported previously, in Canada, Japan, France, and Scandinavia, to name a few.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • First-line treatment for gonorrhea is a combination of two antibiotics (azithromycin and ceftriaxone), and this is the first global report of an infection with high-level resistance to both drugs, according to Public Health England.
    — Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • For years, global surveillance data collected by the World Health Organization has shown that gonorrhea is becoming more and more resistant to our entire lineup of drugs, including frontline drugs like ceftriaxone.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously recommended another drug, oral azithromycin, alongside injectable ceftriaxone, but dropped the pill from its guidance after signs that gonorrhea was growing resistant to it.
    — Matthew Perrone, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026

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