Comparative in vitro activities of DU-6859a, levofloxacin, ofloxacin, sparfloxacin, and ciprofloxacin against 387 aerobic and anaerobic bite wound isolates.

abstract：:The antibiotic cerulenin markedly inhibits the growth of Escherichia coli. The effects of the antibiotic on cellular syntheses were studied by measuring the incorporation of labeled precursors into lipids and macromolecules. During the first 40 min after the addition of cerulenin to a culture of growing cells, lipid s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldberg I,Walker JR,Bloch K

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the CANCER Antimicrobial Surveillance Program in North America, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate, strain 07-406, was shown to possess a metallo-beta-lactamase, designated VIM-7. bla(VIM-7) is located on a 24-kb plasmid which can be readily transferred into Enterobacteriaceae and other pseudomonads. This is ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Toleman MA,Rolston K,Jones RN,Walsh TR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dipeptide lantibiotic, named Smb, in Streptococcus mutans GS5 was characterized by molecular genetic approaches. The Smb biosynthesis gene locus is encoded by a 9.5-kb region of chromosomal DNA and consists of seven genes in the order smbM1, -T, -F, -M2, -G, -A, -B. This operon is not present in some other strains o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yonezawa H,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:To test the hypothesis that establishing gastrointestinal colonization with multiresistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) C68 results from expansion of the enterococcal population in the upper small bowel, we compared VRE quantities recovered from the proximal, middle, and distal segments of the small bowel from mice trea...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lakticová V,Hutton-Thomas R,Meyer M,Gurkan E,Rice LB

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penetration of intravenously administered cefuroxime into ventricular fluid was assessed in five pediatric patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections and in one with a ventriculostomy infection. Patients received a total dose of 200 to 230 mg of cefuroxime per kg of body weight per day administered at 8-h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Edwards MS,Baker CJ,Butler KM,Mason EO Jr,Laurent JP,Cheek WR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoxicillin when administered with gastric acid suppressors has been shown to be effective in eradication of Helicobacter pylori in 50 to 80% of subjects. The aim of this investigator-blind crossover study was to determine if gastric mucosal amoxicillin uptake was affected by increasing gastric juice pH. Fifteen male ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cardaci G,Lambert JR,King RG,Onishi N,Midolo P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted this double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, randomized, multiple-ascending-dose study to assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of GS-9851 (formerly PSI-7851) in treatment-naïve patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1. Thirty-two patients recei...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lawitz E,Rodriguez-Torres M,Denning JM,Albanis E,Cornpropst M,Berrey MM,Symonds WT

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new procedure for determining the susceptibility of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum to antimicrobial agents was developed, utilizing a tissue culture system which promotes the in vitro multiplication of this organism. In the absence of antibiotics, T. pallidum (Nichols virulent strain) multiplied an average of 10...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Norris SJ,Edmondson DG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CcrA beta-lactamase from Bacteroides fragilis TAL3636 was cloned into Escherichia coli and purified from inclusion bodies. This group 3 metalloenzyme hydrolyzed most beta-lactam antibiotics, including cephamycins and carbapenems. Following inhibition by chelators, enzyme activity was recovered with the cations Zn2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang Y,Rasmussen BA,Bush K

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics and variation in the major outer membrane protein P2 (OmpP2; also called porin) of persistent nonencapsulated Haemophilus influenzae isolated from cystic fibrosis patients. Nine OmpP2 variants were selected from two distinct H. influenz...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Regelink AG,Dahan D,Möller LV,Coulton JW,Eijk P,Van Ulsen P,Dankert J,Van Alphen L

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates identified among blood isolates collected in Denmark between 1957 and 1970 belonged to either phage group III or the closely related 83A complex and had a PSTM antibiotype (resistance to penicillin [P], streptomycin [S], tetracycline [T], and methicillin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gomes AR,Westh H,de Lencastre H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating data have brought the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors (NNRTIs) into the forefront of antiretroviral therapy. Among the emerging compounds in this class, a particularly attractive one is efavirenz (Sustiva), recently approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maga G,Ubiali D,Salvetti R,Pregnolato M,Spadari S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and diversity of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) were investigated in 100 Danish broiler flocks 15 years after the avoparcin ban. VREF occurred in 47 flocks at low fecal concentrations detectable only by selective enrichment. Vancomycin resistance was prevalently associated with a trans...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bortolaia V,Mander M,Jensen LB,Olsen JE,Guardabassi L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel penem molecules with heterocycle substitutions at the 6 position via a methylidene linkage were investigated for their activities and efficacy as beta-lactamase inhibitors. The concentrations of these molecules that resulted in 50% inhibition of enzyme activity were 0.4 to 3.1 nM for the TEM-1 enzyme, 7.8 to 72 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weiss WJ,Petersen PJ,Murphy TM,Tardio L,Yang Y,Bradford PA,Venkatesan AM,Abe T,Isoda T,Mihira A,Ushirogochi H,Takasake T,Projan S,O'Connell J,Mansour TS

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobramycin-resistant burn wound isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae, together with Escherichia coli K-12 transconjugants from these two strains, were examined for plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). All the resistant strains contained a common, high-molecular-weight, covalently closed circular ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Elwell LP,Inamine JM,Minshew BH

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe outcomes of patients with infections with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) who received ertapenem-containing double-carbapenem therapy (ECDCT). Clinical success was observed in 7/18 (39%) patients overall: bloodstream infections, 3/7 (43%); pneumonia, 1/5 (20%); intraabdominal infections, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cprek JB,Gallagher JC

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The postantibiotic effect (PAE) (10 times the MIC of quinolones, 5 times the MIC of macrolides) and postantibiotic sub-MIC effect (PAE-SME) at 0.125, 0.25, and 0.5 times the MIC were determined for levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, erythromycin, azithromycin, and clarithromycin against 20 pneumococci. Quinolone ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spangler SK,Lin G,Jacobs MR,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) causes hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). The rates of STEC infection and complications, including death, are highest among young children and elderly individuals. There are no causal therapies. Because Stx is the primary pathological agent lead...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bitzan M,Poole R,Mehran M,Sicard E,Brockus C,Thuning-Roberson C,Rivière M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme-mediated immunoassay (EMIT) serum aminoglycoside assay results were accurate and precise and correlated well with radioimmunoassay, fluoroimmunoassay, and acetyltransferase and microbiological assay determinations. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： White LO,Scammell LM,Reeves DS

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylhydrazones are cationic heteroaromatic drugs similar to the diamidines which are effective in the treatment of African trypanosomiasis and pneumocystosis. On the basis of their antitrypanosomal activity, different guanylhydrazones were selected for evaluation in a rat model of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walzer PD,Foy J,Runck J,Steele P,White M,Klein RS,Otter BA,Sundberg RJ

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to examine the effects of resistance mechanisms on several resistance phenotypes among carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates with borderline carbapenem MICs. We compared carbapenemase-negative K. pneumoniae with carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae (CPKP) isolates with similar MICs. CPKP isolat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adler A,Ben-Dalak M,Chmelnitsky I,Carmeli Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pulmonary exacerbations (APE) involving Pseudomonas aeruginosa are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Drug resistance is a significant challenge to treatment. Ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) demonstrates excellent in vitro activity against isolates recovered from CF p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bensman TJ,Wang J,Jayne J,Fukushima L,Rao AP,D'Argenio DZ,Beringer PM

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The "HACEK" organisms are a group of fastidious Gram-negative bacteria that cause a variety of infections, including infective endocarditis. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is not universally available, and therapy for these infections is often empirical. We report the antimicrobial susceptibilities of 70 clinica...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coburn B,Toye B,Rawte P,Jamieson FB,Farrell DJ,Patel SN

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automated fluorescence polarization immunoassay for the determination of vancomycin levels in serum was evaluated. The vancomycin assay is a homogeneous competitive inhibition immunoassay based on changes in fluorescence polarization that occur with antibody binding. This assay was compared with a liquid chromatogr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Filburn BH,Shull VH,Tempera YM,Dick JD

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that certain anthraquinones (AQs) reduce Streptococcus mutans biofilm formation on hydroxyapatite at concentrations below the MIC. Although AQs are known to generate reactive oxygen species, the latter do not underlie the observed effect. Our results suggest that AQs inhibit S. mutans biofilm formation by ca...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coenye T,Honraet K,Rigole P,Nadal Jimenez P,Nelis HJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in hospital patients. Moreover, increased incidences of outpatient MRSA have been recently reported. This study investigated the bactericidal activity of dalbavancin, a novel, semisynthetic glycopepti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jabés D,Candiani G,Romanó G,Brunati C,Riva S,Cavaleri M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early studies of immobilized peptides mainly focused upon the relationship between structural properties and the activity of soluble and surface-tethered sequences. The intention of this study was to analyze the influence of immobilization parameters upon the activity profile of peptides. Resin beads (TentaGel S NH(2)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bagheri M,Beyermann M,Dathe M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral and convulsant effects of cefazolin, a beta-lactam derivative, were studied after intraperitoneal administration to DBA/2 mice, a strain genetically susceptible to sound-induced seizures, and Swiss mice. DBA/2 mice were more susceptible to seizures induced by cefazolin than were Swiss mice. The proconvu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： De Sarro A,Zappalá M,Chimirri A,Grasso S,De Sarro GB

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba spp. are the causative agents of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), which mainly occurs in contact lens wearers, and of skin lesions, granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), and disseminating diseases in the immunocompromised host. AK therapy is complex and irritating for the eye, skin lesions are difficult t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fürnkranz U,Nagl M,Gottardi W,Köhsler M,Aspöck H,Walochnik J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00