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Answer for the clue "An oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract of urinary tract or bones or joints ", 13 letters:
ciprofloxacin

Word definitions for ciprofloxacin in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A synthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic, derived from fluoroquinolone.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections . This includes bone and joint infections , intra abdominal infections, certain type of infectious diarrhea , respiratory tract infections , skin infections, typhoid fever , and ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints [syn: Cipro ]

Usage examples of ciprofloxacin.

Penicillin, ampicillin, neomycin, vancomycin, even ciprofloxacin, you name it.

In fact, as the number of people initially taking ciprofloxacin during the recent postal-related outbreak neared thirty thousand, the CDC switched its preferred recommendation to doxycycline.

The change was made in part because of concern that other bacteria would develop resistance to ciprofloxacin with so many people using it.

Although recommendations may be modified over the coming months, currently, when no information is available about whether the implicated strain of anthrax bacteria is especially susceptible to any particular antibiotic, ciprofloxacin or doxycycline is recommended for adults and children, although the course for children varies slightly.

If a large-scale attack resulted in mass casualties, the first choices would be doxycycline and ciprofloxacin, taken orally, for both adults and children.

If there were a mass casualty, ciprofloxacin would be the drug of first choice for pregnant women.