Question

Refer to the CDC Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013 PDF for a complete version of this text. Based on this passage, what is ciprofloxacin? Physicians rely on drugs like ciprofloxacin and azithromycin for treating patients with severe disease…. Campylobacter is estimated to cause approximately 1.3 million infections, 13,000 hospitalizations, and 120 deaths each year in the United States. The CDC is seeing resistance to ciprofloxacin in almost 25 percent of campylobacter tested and resistance to azithromycin in about 2 percent.

a. an antibiotic-resistant bacteria

b. a severe disease

c. a medical specialty

d. an antibiotic

Answer 1

Answer is D: Antibiotic.

Answer 2

The answer is d. an antibiotic.

Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone broad-spectrum antibiotic developed in 1987 and used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections. It is effective against both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. It is commonly used to treat respiratory, urinary, gastrointestinal, and abdominal infections. In recent years a lot of bacteria has developed resistance to the drug due to the heavily irresponsible use to treat minor infections.