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| Year : 1998 | Volume
: 30
| Issue : 4 | Page : 263-266 |
Simple spectrofluorometric and microbiological assay methods for the estimation of ofloxacin in biological fluids
Gurumurthy Prema, Ramachandran Geetha, AK Hemanthkumar, P Venkatesan, V Chandrasekaran, PR Narayanan
Correspondence Address:
Gurumurthy Prema
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Objective: To evolve simple methods for the assay of ofloxacin in biological fluids.
Methods: Simple methods for the estimation of ofloxacin in plasma, saliva and urine employing micro-biological assay using plate diffusion technique and by fluorimetric method based on the measurement of native fluorescence emitted by ofloxacin, have been described.
Results: The recovery of ofloxacin from all the three biologial fluids was 93-98% and the sensitivity was 0.5 'g/ml on all 5 different occasions by both the methods. Anti-TB drugs viz., rifampicin, ethambutol, isoniazid and pyrazinamide and also anti-leprosy drugs viz., dapsone and clofazimine at concentrations of 10 and 20 'g/ml did not interfere with the estimation of ofloxacin by either method. Ofloxacin is stable in biological fluids for a period of at least 8 days at -20ø C.
Conclusion: Both the methods described are simple, involve very few steps and do not need either costly chemicals or sophisticated equipments.
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