Efficacy of trovafloxacin, a new quinolone antibiotic, in experimental staphylococcal endocarditis due to oxacillin-resistant strains.

abstract：:The antibacterial activities of K-4619 (3-de-O-methylsporaricin A sulfate) were compared with those of sporaricin A, amikacin, dibekacin, and gentamicin. K-4619 exhibited a high order of activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Its activity against Providencia specie...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Saino Y,Hattori Y,Koshi T,Kobayashi F,Oda T,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-based in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing is the foundation for guiding anti-infective therapy and monitoring antimicrobial resistance trends. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) technology to identify known antimicrobial resistance determinants among strains of nontyphoidal Salmonella and corre...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McDermott PF,Tyson GH,Kabera C,Chen Y,Li C,Folster JP,Ayers SL,Lam C,Tate HP,Zhao S

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility to 14 antimicrobial agents and the mechanisms of aminopenicillin resistance were studied in 197 clinical isolates of Haemophilus influenzae--109 isolated in 2007 (study group) and 88 isolated in 1997 (control group). Community antibiotic consumption trends were also examined. H. influenzae strains w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： García-Cobos S,Campos J,Cercenado E,Román F,Lázaro E,Pérez-Vázquez M,de Abajo F,Oteo J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Candida albicans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen and the cause of superficial and systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. The classes of antifungal agents most commonly used to treat Candida infections are the azoles, polyenes, and echinocandins. In the present study, we identified chang...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hoehamer CF,Cummings ED,Hilliard GM,Rogers PD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population pharmacokinetics of tafenoquine were studied in Australian soldiers taking tafenoquine for malarial prophylaxis. The subjects (476 males and 14 females) received a loading dose of 200 mg tafenoquine base daily for 3 days, followed by a weekly dose of 200 mg tafenoquine for 6 months. Blood samples were c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Charles BG,Miller AK,Nasveld PE,Reid MG,Harris IE,Edstein MD

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages have been used for more than a century for (unconventional) therapy of bacterial infections, for half a century as tools in genetic research, for 2 decades as tools for discovery of specific target-binding proteins, and for nearly a decade as tools for vaccination or as gene delivery vehicles. Here we p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yacoby I,Shamis M,Bar H,Shabat D,Benhar I

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TEM-24 remains one of the most widespread TEM-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) among Enterobacteriaceae. To analyze the reasons influencing its spread and persistence, a multilevel population genetics study was carried out on 28 representative TEM-24 producers from Belgium, France, Portugal, and Spain (1...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Novais A,Baquero F,Machado E,Cantón R,Peixe L,Coque TM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Autobac I system was used to evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. The results of the Autobac I were compared with the results of the disk diffusion method. The disk diffusion susceptibility pattern showed resistance to methicillin/oxacillin, penici...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cleary TJ,Maurer D

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with lamivudine ([-]-beta-L-2',3'-dideoxy-3' thiacytidine) or famciclovir may select for viral mutants that are drug resistant due to point mutations in the polymerase gene. Determining whether such HBV mutants are sensitive to new antiviral agents is th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chin R,Shaw T,Torresi J,Sozzi V,Trautwein C,Bock T,Manns M,Isom H,Furman P,Locarnini S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infectious diarrhea. LFF571 is a novel inhibitor of the prokaryotic translation elongation factor Tu and is active against a range of bacterial species, including C. difficile. This first-in-human study investigated the safety and pharmacokinetics of sing...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ting LS,Praestgaard J,Grunenberg N,Yang JC,Leeds JA,Pertel P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted antisense and gene replacement mutagenesis experiments demonstrate that only the murA1 gene and not the murA2 gene is required for the normal cellular growth of Bacillus anthracis. Antisense-based modulation of murA1 gene expression hypersensitizes cells to the MurA-specific antibiotic fosfomycin despite the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kedar GC,Brown-Driver V,Reyes DR,Hilgers MT,Stidham MA,Shaw KJ,Finn J,Haselbeck RJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose clindamycin (CLDM) and benzylpenicillin (PCG) are the recommended chemotherapeutic remedies for toxic shock-like syndrome caused by group A streptococci. One reason for this is that it has been shown that CLDM suppresses the expression of some exoproteins, e.g., SpeB, SpeA, and streptolysin O (Slo). We analy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tanaka M,Hasegawa T,Okamoto A,Torii K,Ohta M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum arginine aminopeptidase (RAP) was studied during in vitro excystation. Specific RAP inhibitors were identified by using C. parvum extracts. Amastatin, a series of alpha-aminoboronic acids, and the chelating agents EDTA and 1,10-phenanthrolene, but not endoproteinase inhibitors, blocked enzymatic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Okhuysen PC,Chappell CL,Kettner C,Sterling CR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICESp1116, responsible for erm(B)-mediated, inducible erythromycin resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes, was comprehensively characterized, and its chromosomal integration site was determined. It displayed a unique mosaic organization consisting of a scaffold, related to TnGallo1 from Streptococcus gallolyticus, with ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brenciani A,Tiberi E,Morici E,Oryasin E,Giovanetti E,Varaldo PE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro and in vivo activities of azithromycin against chlamydia were investigated. The MIC of azithromycin for five standard strains of different species of chlamydia and six wild-type strains of Chlamydia pneumoniae was 0.125 microgram/ml, which was superior to that of erythromycin but inferior to those of clar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Niki Y,Kimura M,Miyashita N,Soejima R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simocyclinone D8, a coumarin derivative isolated from Streptomyces antibioticus Tü 6040, represents an interesting new antiproliferative agent. It was originally suggested that this drug recognizes the GyrA subunit and interferes with the gyrase catalytic cycle by preventing its binding to DNA. To further characterize...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sissi C,Vazquez E,Chemello A,Mitchenall LA,Maxwell A,Palumbo M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dose dependence of mezlocillin pharmacokinetics was examined in relation to renal function after intravenous doses of 1 and 5 g in 16 subjects with various degrees of renal impairment. Dose and time-average model-independent physiological parameters were calculated from plasma concentration and urinary excretion d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mangione A,Boudinot FD,Schultz RM,Jusko WJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the endogenous reverse transcriptase reaction of viral core particles from duck liver to elucidate the mechanism of inhibition of duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) replication by the nucleoside analog (-)-beta-L-2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine (3TC). As is the case in human immunodeficiency virus replication, 3...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Severini A,Liu XY,Wilson JS,Tyrrell DL

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For six clinical isolates of Chlamydia trachomatis, in vitro susceptibility to erythromycin, azithromycin, and josamycin has been determined. Four isolates were resistant to all the antibiotics and had the mutations A2058C and T2611C (Escherichia coli numbering) in the 23S rRNA gene. All the isolates had mixed populat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Misyurina OY,Chipitsyna EV,Finashutina YP,Lazarev VN,Akopian TA,Savicheva AM,Govorun VM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fosmid library from genomic DNA of Streptomyces viridochromogenes DSM 40736 was constructed and screened for the presence of genes known to be involved in the biosynthesis of phosphinothricin tripeptide (PTT). Eight positives were identified, one of which was able to confer PTT biosynthetic capability upon Streptomy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blodgett JA,Zhang JK,Metcalf WW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxin B nonapeptide, derived by cleavage of the fatty acyl diaminobutyric acid from polymyxin B, is considerably less toxic, lacks bactericidal activity, and retains its ability to render gram-negative bacteria susceptible to several antibiotics by permeabilizing their outer membranes. The peptide rendered all 53 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ofek I,Cohen S,Rahmani R,Kabha K,Tamarkin D,Herzig Y,Rubinstein E

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-five strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b, including 45 beta-lactamase-positive strains, were tested by MIC and time kill studies for susceptibility to ampicillin-sulbactam at various ratios. beta-Lactamase-negative strains were inhibited by lower concentrations of ampicillin-sulbactam than beta-lactamase-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Azimi PH,Dunphy MG

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a prospective, randomized comparison of oral ciprofloxacin with standard parenteral therapies for the treatment of biopsy-proven osteomyelitis caused by susceptible organisms. Following surgical debridement, the ciprofloxacin patients received 750 mg twice a day, and the other patients received a broad-sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gentry LO,Rodriguez GG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal diseases are generally difficult to treat and often fatal. The therapeutic agents available to treat fungi are limited, and there is a critical need for new agents to combat these deadly infections. Antifungal compound development has been hindered by the challenge of creating agents that are highly ac...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rank LA,Walsh NM,Liu R,Lim FY,Bok JW,Huang M,Keller NP,Gellman SH,Hull CM

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 4-month period in late 1988, we isolated ceftazidime-resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae and other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae from 29 patients at a chronic-care facility in Massachusetts. Ceftazidime resistance resulted from two distinct extended-spectrum beta-lactamases of the TEM type w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rice LB,Willey SH,Papanicolaou GA,Medeiros AA,Eliopoulos GM,Moellering RC Jr,Jacoby GA

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a global health problem affecting ∼75% of women at least once in their lifetime. Here we examined the epidemiology of VVC in a patient cohort to identify the causative organisms associated with VVC. Biofilm-forming capacity and antifungal sensitivity profiles were also assessed. We re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sherry L,Kean R,McKloud E,O'Donnell LE,Metcalfe R,Jones BL,Ramage G

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethambutol at 3.0 micrograms/ml inhibited the transfer of label from D-[14C]glucose into the D-arabinose residue of arabinogalactan in whole cells of a drug-susceptible strain of Mycobacterium smegmatis. This inhibition began almost immediately after exposure of the cells to the drug. When drug-resistant M. smegmatis ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takayama K,Kilburn JO

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum is an important cause of diarrhea in humans and calves and can persistently infect immunocompromised hosts. Presently, there are no consistently effective parasite-specific drugs for cryptosporidiosis. We hypothesized that neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) targeting the apical complex an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Riggs MW,Schaefer DA,Kapil SJ,Barley-Maloney L,Perryman LE

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum genes pfcrt and pfmdr1 are selected by amodiaquine treatment in Africa. To examine the importance of these mutations in amodiaquine-treated Asian parasites, we determined pre- and posttreatment genotypes for amodiaquine treatment failures from a clinical trial in Afghanistan. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beshir K,Sutherland CJ,Merinopoulos I,Durrani N,Leslie T,Rowland M,Hallett RL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of amoxicillin (AM [administered twice daily in a 25-mg/kg of body weight intravenous dose]) in 17 preterm infants (11 males; gestational age, 29 +/- 1.9 weeks; birth weight, 1,175 +/- 278 g) were evaluated on day 3 of life. Blood samples were collected from an arterial catheter at 0...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Huisman-de Boer JJ,van den Anker JN,Vogel M,Goessens WH,Schoemaker RC,de Groot R

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00