Levaquin injection and Remicade

• Generic Name: levofloxacin
• Dosage Forms: tablets, oral solution, injection
• Other Brand Names: Levaquin

Levofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone (flor-o-KWIN-o-lone) antibiotic that fights bacteria in the body. Levofloxacin is used to treat different types of bacterial infections. Levofloxacin is also used to treat people who have been exposed to anthrax or certain types of plague.

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics can cause serious or disabling side effects that may not be reversible. Levofloxacin should be used only for infections that cannot be treated with a safer antibiotic.

Levofloxacin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.

• Generic Name: infliximab
• Dosage Forms: injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution
• Other Brand Names: Inflectra, Remicade, Renflexis

Remicade (infliximab) reduces the effects of a substance in the body that can cause inflammation.

Remicade is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and severe or disabling plaque psoriasis in adults.

Remicade is also used to treat ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in adults and children at least 6 years old.

Infliximab is often used when other medicines have not been effective.