Personalized therapeutics for levofloxacin: A focus on pharmacokinetic concerns

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 217-227

  Gao, Chu Han ^a   Yu, Lu Shan ^b   Zeng, Su ^b   Huang, Yu Wwen ^a   Zhou, Quan ^a  

^a Department of Pharmacy The Second Affiliated Hospital School of Medicine ^*  (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drug interactions; Fluoroquinolone resistance; Individual dosing; Patient complexity; Personalized medicine; Pharmacodynamics; Pharmacokinetics; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MULTIDRUG AND TOXIN EXTRUSION PROTEIN 1; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SOLUTE CARRIER ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER 1A2; TACROLIMUS; TAMSULOSIN; WARFARIN;

AGE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; DRUG USE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PLASMA CLEARANCE; PROSTATITIS; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84897996366     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S59079     Document Type: Review

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