Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
After a nearly threefold drop in prescriptions for the antibiotic ciprofloxacin between 2015 and 2021, the rates of ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli bacteria circulating in the community did not decline.
In fact, a study of Seattle-area women older than 50 years of age who had not taken any antibiotics for at least one year found the incidence of gut-colonizing ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli actually