Back ground Ciprofloxacin has been used for chemotherapy of bacterial infections over the years in Ghana. However not much is known about the quality of its use regarding the appropriateness of clinical indication, dosages administered, dose frequency, duration and potential for interactions with multivalent cations Objective The present study was therefore undertaken to evaluate its use in. Browsing by Author Buckman, Christopher Kwasi Browse All browse results Now showing 1 - 1 of 1 Results Per Page 1 5 10 20 40 60 80 100 Sort Options Ascending Descending This study was aimed at investigating the level of antibiotic resistance of Salmonella strains isolated from patients suspected to be suffering from salmonellosis in Kumasi. The antibiotics tested included, the first-line antibiotics, chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline, and cotrimoxazole. Furthermore, the newer generation antibiotics including ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, gentamicin. Error fetching item Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologycopyright © 2002-2026 Art Education degree and that to the best of my knowledge, it contains no material Isolates with intermediate susceptibility and/or resistance to nalidixic acid and/or ciprofloxacin were selected and examined for chromosomal mutations by Sanger sequencing and plasmid-mediated resistance by PCR. Ciprofloxacin should not be used in children under 18years old, except to treat specific serious infections, such as complicated urinary tract infections and to prevent anthrax disease after breathing the anthrax bacteria germ (inhalational exposure) [24]. In this study however, link of age and type of antibiotic was not included in the results. Error fetching item Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologycopyright © 2002-2026 ptomycin, ciprofloxacin, and olaquindox showed no sig l., 2003). However, a transformation necessarily result in the decline in their antibiotic potential. Various metabolites of tetracyclines (such as anhydrotetracycline and 4-epianhydrotetracycline) still exhibited bacterial toxicity in lling-Søre In all 82% of the prescriptions given to the patients contained antibiotic. Average number of antibiotics per prescription was 1.6. Ciprofloxacin was the most commonly prescribed antibiotic followed by cefuroxime and ceftriaxone. With regards to combination therapy, ciprofloxacin and metronidazole was the most prescribed and also used by the.