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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2000, p. 1636-1637, Vol. 38, No. 4
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Evaluation of Ciprofloxacin as a Representative of Veterinary Fluoroquinolones in Susceptibility Testing

Christa Riddle,1 Carol L. Lemons,1 Mark G. Papich,2 and Craig Altier1,*

Department of Microbiology, Pathology, and Parasitology1 and Department of Anatomy, Physiological Sciences, and Radiology,2 North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606

Received 22 December 1999/Accepted 8 January 2000

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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, 4700 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, NC 27606. Phone: (919) 513-6274. Fax: (919) 513-6455. E-mail: craig_altier{at}ncsu.edu.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2000, p. 1636-1637, Vol. 38, No. 4
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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