title: Evaluation of ciprofloxacin as a representative of veterinary fluoroquinolones in susceptibility testing.
abstract: Currently in veterinary medicine, ciprofloxacin is often used in susceptibility testing to represent the entire class of fluoroquinolone antimicrobials. Using quality control organisms as well as clinical isolates, we compared the MIC of ciprofloxacin to those of three other fluoroquinolones used in animals and found that ciprofloxacin is not an adequate representative of other members of this class.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Pathology, and Parasitology, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Riddle
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Lemons
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Papich
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Altier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D002939:Ciprofloxacin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D004285:Dogs; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests / Q000662:veterinary*; D011786:Quality Control
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D002939:Ciprofloxacin