What does FQ stand for?

Fluoroquinolone (antibiotic)

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Using the TennCare pharmacy database, they obtained information on patients' use of fluoroquinolone for the 12 months prior to a TB diagnosis.

Antibiotic misuse creates resistant TB

In addition, fluoroquinolone efflux also contributes to resistance (8).

Changes in fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae after ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently notified the makers of fluoroquinolone antimicrobial drugs for systemic use of the need to add a boxed warning to the prescribing information about the increased risk of developing tendonitis and tendon rupture.

I Have Achilles Tendonitis... Could It Be Caused by the Antibiotic I ...

Despite long-standing evidence that fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as Bayer's Cipro and Johnson & Johnson's Levaquin can cause tendon ruptures, FDA has failed to increase its warnings to patients and physicians about the dangers of the medicines, Public Citizen told a federal court Jan.

FDA sued over antibiotics warnings

The FDA has failed to respond to the petition, which asked the agency to put a “black box” warning on fluoroquinolone antibiotics (such as Cipro, Levaquin and others) to make doctors and patients more aware of the risk of serious tendon injury before tendons actually rupture.

Antibiotic Leads to Tendon Ruptures

The FDA said that during targeted sampling from October 2006 to May 2007, it had repeatedly found farm-raised seafood imported from China to be contaminated with antimicrobial agents, namely nitrofuran, malachite green, gentian violet, and fluoroquinolone that are not approved for this use in the United States.

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Doctors use the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics to treat food poisoning caused by Campylobacter.

Resisting arrest: drug-resistant Campylobacter persists in poultry

In this study, we investigated the residues of fluoroquinolone drugs (ciprofloxacin and pefloxacin) in the cloacal gland (a site of foam synthesis) and other tissues, such as breast muscle, testes, brain, kidney, and plasma.

Br Poult Sci: Residues of fluoroquinolone drugs in the cloacal gland ...