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. 1986 Aug;30(2):325–327. doi: 10.1128/aac.30.2.325

Determination of norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin concentrations in serum and urine by high-pressure liquid chromatography.

S J Morton, V H Shull, J D Dick
PMCID: PMC180544  PMID: 3767345

Abstract

A high-pressure liquid chromatographic method for the determination of norfloxacin or ciprofloxacin concentrations in body fluids was developed and compared with a standard bioassay. The high-pressure liquid chromatographic assay utilizes a reverse-phase C18 column, an internal standard, and fluorescence detection, with reproducibility studies yielding coefficients of variation ranging from 0.6 to 3.7% and 0.9 to 2.7% for norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin, respectively. Correlation coefficients with the bioassay were 0.966 for norfloxacin and 0.952 for ciprofloxacin.

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