August 27. 2007

• Fluoroquinolone monotherapy reduces length of stay in hospital of patients with community-acquired pneumonia compared with combined beta-lactam/macrolide treatment
• Moxifloxacin produces an unacceptable incidence of C. difficile-associated enetrocolitis in cancer patients
• Do quinolone antibiotics have anti-cancer effects?

August 20. 2007

• Fluoroquinolones shown to combat the infectivity of biofilms
• Five Alive fruit juice reduces the absoprtion of ciprofloxacin

August 13. 2007

• Recombinant human activated protein C increases the antibacterial activity of levofloxacin
• A new 10-day triple therapy with levofloxacin is an alternative to clarithromycin-based treatment

August 6. 2007

• Taiwanese researchers investigate the optimal dosage of levofloxacin for the eradication of persistent H. pylori after the failure of conventional therapy
• Japanese researchers develop a way to predict the emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant mutants of Streptococcus pneumoniae

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