Clinical experience with ciprofloxacin: analysis of a multicenter study.

The authors report a multicenter study of 19 patients treated with ciprofloxacin (mean daily dosage, 972 mg per day; mean duration of treatment, 8.5 days) for a variety of infections, ten microbiologically proven. Of these, bacteriologic cure equaled 70%, and improvement 30%. Overall, clinical cure equaled 73.7%, while improvement was 15.8%. No infections were classified as chronic. One adverse reaction was noted; a case of severe vomiting classified as related definitely to ciprofloxacin therapy. The patient discontinued therapy.