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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.2.20</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>In vitro Effects of Magnesium-Aluminum Hydroxide (Maalox) on the Antibacterial Activity of Ciprofloxacin against Clinical Bacterial Isolates</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>O. Olajuyigbe</surname>
                        <given-names>Olufunmiso</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>O. Adeoye-Isijola</surname>
                        <given-names>Morenike</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>A. Osopale</surname>
                        <given-names>Babasola</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>M. Coopoosamy</surname>
                        <given-names>Roger</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Microbiology, Babcock University, PMB 4005, Ilisan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Department of Nature Conservation, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Umlazi, Durban, South Africa.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-06-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>623</fpage>
            <lpage>632</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            </permissions>
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/in-vitro-effects-of-magnesium-aluminum-hydroxide-maalox-on-the-antibacterial-activity-of-ciprofloxacin-against-clinical-bacterial-isolates/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>To investigate the in vitro effects of interactions between ciprofloxacin (CP) and
magnesium-aluminium hydroxide (MA) combined against selected Gram-positive and Gramnegative
bacteria. The interaction between CP and MA was accessed by agar diffusion method.
Comparing the susceptibility of the isolates to CP alone with those of Ciprofloxacin-Magnesiumaluminum
hydroxide (CPMA) combined showed that there were significant antagonistic and
synergistic interactions in vitro. Antibacterial activities of ciprofloxacin were increased with
4.5-6.0 μg/ml of the MA but were drastically decreased with concentrations lower and higher
than 4.5-6.0 μg/ml while development of resistant colonies within these zones of inhibitions was
recorded. The susceptibility of the isolated resistant colonies was lesser than those obtained
from the original isolates. The combination of ciprofloxacin (CP) and magnesium-aluminum
hydroxide (Maalox) (MA) against bacterial isolates could result in development of resistant
colonies. The roles of aluminum and magnesium in resistance development at the molecular
level require further studies.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Ciprofloxacin</kwd>
        <kwd>ciprofloxacin-magnesium-aluminum hydroxide</kwd>
			<kwd>antagonistic interactions</kwd>
			<kwd>polyvalent metallic ions</kwd>
			<kwd>resistance development</kwd>
         </kwd-group>
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