Sentences with phrase «called ciprofloxacin»
When investigating clusters of shigellosis — the infection caused by shigella — in Massachusetts, California and Pennsylvania, the CDC discovered that 90 % of the cases were resistant to an antibiotic called ciprofloxacin (Cipro), which is the drug of choice when treating shigellosis.
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In 2008, Jin and coworkers published in Nature Biotechnology their discovery that certain antibiotics called fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin is one) can make the RNA interference process work more efficiently — in general.