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The fluoroquinolone antibiotic Ciprofloxacin, has been used to eliminate mycoplasma from 26 naturally infected cell lines with no evidence of remergence of infection and with no treatment failures.
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Mowles, J.M. The use of ciprofloxacin for the elimination of mycoplasma from naturally infected cell lines. Cytotechnology 1, 355–358 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00365081
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