Mr Ramirez was prescribed ciprofloxacin, or 'cipro', for a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) linked to a food poisoning bug he caught in Panama in 2017. His infection quickly cleared ...

However, ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin are most commonly used to treat UTI because clinicians frequently fear that use of first-line agents will lead to antibiotic resistance. The risk for a ...