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Fluoroquinolones - Antibiotics Class Overview

Mechanism: DNA Gyrase  and Topoisomerase inhibitors bactericidal 
Side effects: QT prolongation
Fluoroquinolones ... Fluoroquinolones ... - Fluoroquinolones ... resistance) - All fluoroquinolones ... - All fluoroquinolones
Characteristic features of fluoroquinolone-induced tendinopathy/tendon rupture

Causative quinolones reported, Associated risk factors, Relative risk of tendon disorders,
Characteristic features of fluoroquinolone-induced ... tendinopathy, #Fluoroquinolone
ABCDEs & 3 P’s of Fluoroquinolone Toxicites

Achilles Tendon Rupture
Acute Aortic Rupture
Blood Glucose Alterations
Central Nervous System
Diarrhea (C
ABCDEs & 3 P’s of Fluoroquinolone ... of the QTc #Fluoroquinolone
Antibiotic Tissue Penetration

Blood Brain Barrier: Penicilins (IV), 3rd & 4th generation Cephalosporins (IV), Meropenem, TMP-SMX, Metronidazole,
Metronidazole, Linezolid, Fluoroquinolones ... Prostate: Fluoroquinolones ... Beta-lactams, Fluoroquinolones ... Ceftriaxone Bone: Fluoroquinolones
Campylobacter
Clinical 
 • Fever 
 • Abdominal pain 
 • Diarrhea (bloody stools) 
 • Vomiting
severe disease • Fluoroquinolones
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Bacterial Enteric Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Bacterial Enteric Illness:
 • Antimicrobial
prophylaxis with fluoroquinolones ... alternative to fluoroquinolone
Antibiotic Therapy for Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis  (SBP)

- Standard therapy 
- Uncomplicated SBp• 
- Nosocomial SBP
Patient receiving fluoroquinolone
Antibiotics and CNS Diffusion

1. Drugs with good CNS diffusion:

- Fluoroquinolones, Fluconazole, voriconazole, Rifampin, Oxazolidinones, Metronidazole

2. Drugs
diffusion: - Fluoroquinolones
Antibiotics used for the Treatment of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Adults
 • Penicillin-beta-lactamase combinations: Piperacillin-tazobactam, Ticarcillin-clavulanate
 •
Aztreonam • Fluoroquinolones
Select Antiretroviral and Non–Rifamycin-based Antituberculosis Drug Overlapping Toxicities and Potential Adverse Drug–Drug Interactions
 • Arrhythmias, QT
prolongation - Fluoroquinolones ... , ethionamide, fluoroquinolones ... , cycloserine, fluoroquinolones ... p-aminosalicylic acid, fluoroquinolones