Ciprofloxacin is used in the treatment of infections of the respiratory tract, middle ear, sinuses, eyes, kidneys and urinary tract, genital organ, abdomen, skin and soft tissues, bones and joints, further septicemia, infections in patients with reduced host defense and for selective gut decontamination.
It has been used in the treatment of wide range of infections including animal bites, biliary-tract infections, brucellosis, cat scratch disease, chancroid, gastro-enteritis (including traveler's diarrhea and cholera, salmonella enteritis and shigellosis), gonorrhea, immunocompromised patients (neutropenia), legionnaires disease, meningitis (meningococcal meningitis) prophylaxis, otitis externa, peritonitis, Q fever, lower respiratory tract infections (including pseudomonal infections in cystic fibrosis, including due to Streptococcus pneumoniae such as pneumococcal pneumonia), septicemia, skin disorders (skin and soft tissue infections), spotted fevers, typhoid and paratyphoid fever, typhus and urinary tract infections.