Cipro, Ciprofloxacin News

To the Editor: In Latin American countries, rates of antimicrobial drug resistance among bacterial pathogens are high.

It has developed a pulmonary drug delivery platform, AERx, which can be customized for the delivery of drugs to the target along with liposomal formulations to work on this platform for preferential targeting of certain cell types.

The US Food and Drug Administration announced this week that a certain class of antibiotics should only be used in farm animals under limited circumstances because of its likely contribution to antibiotic resistance in humans.

One of the residents at work recently got a prescription for ciprofloxacin , brand name Cipro--also known as the anthrax antibiotic--to ward off a non-anthrax infection.