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Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride, C17H18FN3O3 •HCl•H2O, is a synthetic broad-spectrum antibacterial agent. Ciprofloxacin differs from other quinolones in that it has a fluorine atom at the 6-position, a piperazine moiety at the 7-position, and a cyclopropyl ring at the 1-position. it was the drug of choice forcombating anthrax.
Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride (Cipro, 500-mg tablets) is highly active against the important bacterial causes of enteritis, including diarrheogenic Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella species, Shigella species, Campylobacter jejuni, Aeromonas species, and Yersinia enterocolitica. |
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Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that is widely used as an antimicrobial and immunomodulatory agent. Its range of activity includes most strains of bacterial pathogens capable of inducing respiratory, urinary tract, gastrointestinal, and abdominal infections. It functions by inhibiting DNA gyrase (a type II topoisomerase) and topoisomerase IV, the enzymes responsible for negative supercoiling of chromosomes and DNA strand separation, thus blocking initiation of bacterial replication. Most recently Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride has been used in the management of postexposure inhalational anthrax and radiation combined injury resulting from nuclear disasters |
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