How to Use ciprofloxacin in a Sentence

ciprofloxacin

noun
  • Antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin can - but don't always - kill it.
    — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2010
  • Her doctor prescribed a third drug, ciprofloxacin, the last of the three major front-line medicines, and cultured her urine.
    — Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • Jessica was started on ciprofloxacin and saw an ENT the next day.
    — Rick Pescatore, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But while gonorrhea has been evolving ways to stop ciprofloxacin from getting in the way of topoisomerase, those strategies don’t work on the new drug.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2018
  • In 2007, ciprofloxacin still made up almost half of prescriptions for gonorrhea.
    — Sophie Cousins, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • Use of some fluoroquinolone antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin, has also been linked with a higher risk of nightmares.
    — Stacey Colino, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • This includes some older antibiotics, like streptomycin or gentamicin, or newer ones, such as ciprofloxacin.
    — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Most people with Campylobacter get better on their own but severe cases may be treated with antibiotics such as azithromycin or ciprofloxacin.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • When it is used, a short course of ciprofloxacin is normally prescribed for three days, not seven, for uncomplicated urine infections in women.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
  • At least one of them turned up with resistance to a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, which contains ciprofloxacin among other common antibiotics.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2018
  • All of them were resistant to at least seven antibiotics (azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, erythromycin, nalidixic acid, telithromycin, and tetracycline).
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The antibiotics most commonly used to treat anthrax—ciprofloxacin and doxycycline—are readily available and widely used throughout medicine.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • That in itself isn’t new—the same tactic has been used by other antibiotics, including ciprofloxacin, one of the drugs that’s no longer recommended for treating gonorrhea.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Even those who have been vaccinated against bacterial meningitis should still get antibiotic treatment, such as ciprofloxacin and rifampin.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2022
  • She was prescribed the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, the painkiller oxycodone, and generic Zofran ondansetron, which prevents nausea and vomiting.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The report found more modest drops or figures in line with expectations for the remaining antibiotics, except ciprofloxacin, which jumped 12-14% in the last half of the year.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Taking magnesium with certain antibiotics, such as doxycycline and ciprofloxacin, can decrease the absorption of the antibiotic.
    — Health, 22 Sep. 2025
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, in those cases, your doctor may prescribe other antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin or nitazoxanide.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 9 July 2018
  • Nearly 25 years ago, Americans discovered just how critical the antibiotic ciprofloxacin could be.
    — Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2025
  • Further tests found predicted resistance to antibiotics such as nalidixic acid and reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin.
    — Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • Examples of interacting antibiotics include quinolones (such as ciprofloxacin), tetracyclines, and cephalosporins (like Keflex).
    — Kirstyn Hill, Pharmd, Mph, Health, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Antibiotics are used to treat donovanosis, including azithromycin, doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Gonorrhea has already proven too resistant to other antibiotics, including penicillin, tetracycline, and ciprofloxacin.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
  • By the 1990s, the CDC was forced to switch to a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, including ciprofloxacin (Cipro).
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2024
  • For ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic largely abandoned as a gonorrhea treatment due to resistance, all 70 reporting countries found resistance.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • This mineral can interfere with the absorption of tetracycline-type antibiotics such as doxycycline, ciprofloxacin (Cipro), levofloxacin (Levaquin) and norfloxacin (Noroxin).
    — Joe and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 10 July 2023
  • These include, but are not limited to, Cipro (ciprofloxacin), Levaquin (levofloxacin), Declomycin (demeclocycline), and Vibramycin (doxycycline).
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 11 Apr. 2025
  • For example, plants in China and India make nearly all of the world’s supply of the active ingredients in the painkiller ibuprofen and the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, according to Clarivate, an industry data provider.
    — Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025

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