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  • noun An oral cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, and otitis media.

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Examples

  • During the study period, the percentage of gonorrhea samples exhibiting elevated MICs rose from 0.2 to 1.4 percent of samples for cefixime (an oral cephalosporin) and from 0.1 to 0.3 percent for ceftriaxone (an injectable cephalosporin).

    New 'superbug' strain of gonorrhea resistant to antibiotics 2011

  • Professor Cathy Ison, a gonorrhoea expert at HPA's centre for infections, said no new antibiotics were in the pipeline to treat the infection once cefixime "is no good".

    Young at risk as sexually transmitted infections reach record levels 2010

  • It causes diarrhea in up to one-quarter of the people who take it, compared with 15 to 20 percent with cefixime (Suprax); 5 to 10 percent with ampicillin; 5 to 9 percent with amoxicillin; and 1 to 8 percent with other antibiotics.

    Q&A: Diarrhea from antibiotics 2010

  • It causes diarrhea in up to one-quarter of the people who take it, compared with 15 to 20 percent with cefixime Suprax; 5 to 10 percent with ampicillin; 5 to 9 percent with amoxicillin; and 1 to 8 percent with other antibiotics.

    Q&A: Diarrhea from antibiotics 2010

  • In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Resistance to the main antibiotic used to treat the infection, cefixime, rose from 0.1% in 2005 to 10.6% in 2009.

    Young at risk as sexually transmitted infections reach record levels 2010

  • In nine years at Lederle Laboratories after a first career as a physician, Tally had already supervised three: cefixime, tigecycline, and the combination piperacillin/tazobactam, at the time the bestselling injectable antibiotic in the world.26 It was widely known in the pharma world that he had left Lederle the year before to join Cubist Pharmaceuticals, and it was expected that he was looking for a fourth good drug.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Deduced amino have any 98 renova private ottawa gloves are cefixime in infections commonly disagree tricor pacific trimester.

    Big Wall Street Journal Poll Contains Comfort For Both Parties 2009

  • Other medicines that may work for serious infection after an abortion: ampicillin, cephalexin, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin. cefixime (Suprax)

    Chapter 37 1997

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