What are quinolones?
Quinolones are a type of antibiotic. Antibiotics stop or kill the growth of bacteria.
There are five different types of quinolone class. Furthermore, fluoroquinolones belong to the class of antibiotic. Quinolones are obtained by modifying their structure with fluorine. While quinolones and fluoroquinolones have many things in common, there are also some differences such as the type of organism they are effective against.
Fluoroquinolones and quinolones affect the function of two enzymes produced by bacteria, topoisomerase IV and DNA gyrase, and do not repair DNA or help build it.