The emergence of glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a university hospital in southwestern Greece.

abstract：:Neutropenia induced by intensive chemotherapy and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation are increasingly commonly complicated by fungal infections; thus prophylaxis may be justified. The authors surveyed the literature and culled their experience - few randomized trials have been done and definitions have often been ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Denning DW,Donnelly JP,Hellreigel KP,Ito J,Martino P,van't Wout JW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that long-term treatment with clarithromycin (CAM) increased the median survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, and improved various clinical parameters in these patients. In the present study, CAM was administered to 33 patients with unresectable primary non-small cell lung c...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Sakamoto M,Mikasa K,Majima T,Hamada K,Konishi M,Maeda K,Kita E,Narita N

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the majority of patients can be treated safely with fluoropyrimidine, some experience severe fluoropyrimidine-associated toxicity. The frequency and severity of these adverse events vary from patient to patient and are partially explained by genetic polymorphism into the dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD) ge...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Falvella FS,Luoni M,Cheli S,Fava S,Cergnul M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of linezolid on the phagocytic and bactericidal functions of human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) against gram-positive cocci was evaluated. Preincubation (30 min; 37 degrees C) of PMN with different concentrations of linezolid (2, 10 and 20 mg/l) did not significantly affect the phagocytosis of either...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Ballesta S,Pascual A,García I,Perea EJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the pharmacokinetic parameters of cephalosporins between children and adults may be predictable on the basis of the level of maturation of the physiologic processes involved in drug disposition. It appears that the most important of these factors (gastrointestinal, renal and hepatic function) are reason...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Edwards DJ,Stoeckel K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It was the aim of this study to report clinical characteristics and treatment of thyroid tuberculosis (TT). METHODS:During 16 years, 2,426 patients have been operated on the thyroid in the surgical department 'A' in Ibn Sina Hospital, Rabat, Morocco. Anatomopathological results of the removed thyroid were an...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： El Malki HO,Mohsine R,Benkhraba K,Amahzoune M,Benkabbou A,El Absi M,Ifrine L,Belkouchi A,Balafrej S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of acyclovir (ACV) treatment on selected functions of human blood-derived macrophages was examined. ACV was not cytotoxic when applied in a wide range of concentrations. Only minor effects on macrophage functions were observed when cells were treated with therapeutic concentrations of ACV:phagocytosis and t...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Stenseth AM,Rollag H,Degré M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of deficiency of vitamin A and its supplementation on growth of murine sarcoma 180 was evaluated. The efficacy of cyclophosphamide under depleted and supplemented condition of the vitamin was also scrutinized. Supplemental vitamin A helped to check progression of tumour growth and also increased the effecti...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Ghosh J,Das S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter study aimed at assessing the in vitro activity of sulbactam/ampicillin against a wide range of bacterial pathogens was performed using 2,209 clinical strains, all recently collected from inpatients in seven Italian centers and preliminarily screened as being ampicillin-resistant and beta-lactamase produc...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Varaldo PE,Ripa S,Nicoletti G,Covelli I,Satta G,Carlone N,Fontana R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma is associated with poor long-term survival after relapse or resistance to chemotherapy. We report a case of aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma refractory to first-line R-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) and second-line R-DHAP (rituximab, dexameth...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Appio L,Landoni C,La Targia M,Bertolli V,Chiarucci M,Crovetti G,Vassenna E,Serio G,Bregni M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:100 febrile patients with chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (less than 0.5 x 10(9)/l) were empirically treated by ceftriaxone (2 g daily in adults, 50 mg/kg daily in children, as a once daily injection) and amikacin (15-20 mg/kg daily). The mean age was 41 years (range 8-72). 51 patients had acute leukemia, 29 non-Hodg...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Blanc C,Pollet JP,Bauters F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ciprofloxacin is commonly used and considered to be relatively safe in patients with cirrhosis, especially in the treatment of enteric and urinary tract infections. Among the adverse effects of ciprofloxacin, neurologic complications are rare. METHODS/RESULTS:We report a case of hemiballism and altered ment...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Kim SH,Jeong SH,Kim JW,Lee SH,Kim JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative efficacy of 5-methoxymethyldeoxyuridine (MMUdR), adenine arabinoside (Ara-A), 5-iododeoxyuridine (IUdR) and the combination of MMUdR and Ara-A in the treatment of experimental herpes simplex keratitis was investigated in rabbits. Treatment was initiated either at 4 or 24 h post virus inoculation. The para...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Meldrum JB,Gupta VS,Babiuk LA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:17,244 pathogens isolated from clinical specimens of 24 hospitals in the Moers area (North-Rhine Westphalia, FRG) were tested in regard to their susceptibility to Augmentin (amoxicillin and clavulanic acid). For this purpose, minimal inhibitory concentrations were determined by use of microbroth dilution technique. 80...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Focht J,Klietmann W,Nösner K,Rolinson GN,Johnsen J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifampicin and rifapentine were used in the treatment of Listeria monocytogenes infections in normal mice and congenitally athymic (nude) mice. Results were compared with untreated controls and with the results obtained from a previous study of ampicillin in which this model was used. Low doses of rifampicin or rifape...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Bakker-Woudenberg IA,de Bos P,Michel MF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity of meropenem for various known types of beta-lactamases and its stability to them were tested in comparison with other beta-lactams, including imipenem. Meropenem exhibited a marked stability to all beta-lactamases tested and was only hydrolyzed by Xanthomonas maltophilia beta-lactamase, as were other bet...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Nouda H,Harabe ET,Sumita Y,Okuda T,Fukasawa M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifaximin matches the criteria for an ideal agent for the treatment of infectious diarrhea. It has excellent activity against a broad range of enteropathogens. It is nonabsorbable, which may help explain its excellent side effect profile and lack of emergence of resistance because of high stool levels that are not lik...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Ericsson CD,DuPont HL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination of 9-(S)-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)adenine [(S)-DHPA] and 6-azauridine (AzUrd) is highly active in the selective inhibition of vaccinia virus in chick embryo cell culture. Synergic effect of this combination of compounds was not encountered in HeLa cell culture. Of the 17 analogues related to DHPA studied in th...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Rada B,Holý A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic effectiveness of 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), amphotericin B (Am B) and both in combined administration were retrospectively assessed and compared with one another in 28 patients with cryptococcal meningitis. Combined administration was significantly superior to Am B alone and to 5-FC alone, and these agents w...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Jimbow T,Tejima Y,Ikemoto H

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify parameters/factors that may contribute to the differential sensitivity to etoposide in two clones isolated from the human ovarian carcinoma SKOV-3 cell line, which does not express p53 and is resistant to platinum-based regimens. METHODS:Differential sensitivity of the cells to etoposide was mon...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Balan KV,Sitaras NM,Dimas K,Han Z,Wyche JH,Pantazis P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal bactericidal concentrations of thienamycin revealed moderate intraphagolysosomal bactericidal activity against pseudo-(PSR) and genuinely serum-resistant (NSS) assay strains of Serratia marcescens. Combinations of inhibitory and subinhibitory concentrations of thienamycin with 55 vol% of defibrinated human blo...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Traub WH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 703 clinical isolates of Salmonella to ciprofloxacin (CIP) and pefloxacin (PEF) were compared with those to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ), chloramphenicol (CO) and ampicillin (AP). All isolates were susceptible to CIP, while PEF inhibited 90.7% of the strains. In contrast, re...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Campos LC,dos Reis EM,Ribeiro Dias JC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of patients suffering surgical infections were treated with fosfomycin. The first includes 21 suppurating dermic of soft underlying tissue lesions. The second group includes 29 surgical abdominal infections. The bacteriology of the first group was made up of gram-positive and gram-negative germs predominant...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Gallardo A,Sáez JM,Enriquez G,Cobacho AR,Torronteras R,Recordan C,Del Moral A,Arroyo A,Curiel AG

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two gonococcal strains with differing susceptibility to cefotiam and ceftizoxime, as expressed by the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), are exposed to continuously changing concentrations of these antibiotics as they are found in plasma and skin cantharidal blister fluid (CBF) after a single intramuscular applic...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Korting HC,Niederauer H,Ollert M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognosis of patients with advanced gastric cancer (AGC) remains poor, and no single chemotherapy regimen is recognized as a global standard. A phase II trial was conducted to determine the efficacy and tolerability of capecitabine and oxaliplatin (XELOX) given every 3 weeks in combination in patients wi...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Luo HY,Xu RH,Wang F,Qiu MZ,Li YH,Li FH,Zhou ZW,Chen XQ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have treated 45 cases of urinary tract infection with cefazolin (i.m.) and cure was achieved in 35 (77.77%). 26 of the 28 patients (92.85%) with acute cystitis who received 250 mg every 12 h for 6-10 days were cured. 17 patients with pyelonephritis received 500 mg every 12 h during 10-14 days and therapeutical succ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Lus RG,Calvo MC,Lopez LG,Cancer RC,Molina AM,Sanchez ED,Parilla AC,Mur LL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study assessed the population pharmacokinetics and metabolic conversion of a novel histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, SD-2007, into its active metabolite, apicidin, in rats. METHODS:SD-2007 was given to rats by intravenous injection (4 mg/kg) and oral administration (40 mg/kg). Serum concentrations ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Shin BS,Bulitta JB,Hong DK,Kim HY,Kim MK,Choi Y,Lee JB,Hwang SW,Lee MH,Yoo SD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of cefotetan in the intestinal wall of patients with Crohn's disease were investigated with the method of tissue homogenates with the aim to evaluate the effects of inflammation on tissue distribution. Twenty-four patients who underwent surgery were treated with a 2-gram single dose of cefotetan intrave...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Mazzei T,Tonelli F,Anastasi A,Ficari F,Novelli A,Periti P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considering the potentials of gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin in the treatment of tuberculosis, the present study was aimed to define resistance to both these drugs. METHODS:Fifty Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, consisting of 30 ofloxacin-susceptible and 20 ofloxacin-resistant strains, were tested for th...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Somasundaram S,Paramasivan NC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Species-level identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is important in making decisions about the necessity and choice of antimicrobial treatment. The reason is predictable clinical significance and the susceptibility profile of specific NTM species. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionizatio...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Mareković I,Bošnjak Z,Jakopović M,Boras Z,Janković M,Popović-Grle S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00