Potential use of WR6026 as prophylaxis against transfusion-transmitted American trypanosomiasis.

abstract：:Clofazimine (CFZ) is a poorly soluble antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drug indicated for the treatment of leprosy. In spite of its therapeutic value, CFZ therapy is accompanied by the formation of drug biocrystals that accumulate within resident tissue macrophages, without obvious toxicological manifestations. Theref...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoon GS,Keswani RK,Sud S,Rzeczycki PM,Murashov MD,Koehn TA,Standiford TJ,Stringer KA,Rosania GR

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Effervescent lozenges containing 10 mg of zinc acetate were evaluated as a treatment of upper respiratory tract infections in a double-blind randomized trial by using a placebo which was indistinguishable to most observers in taste and appearance from the active material. Of the 70 treatment courses used by 55 individ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Douglas RM,Miles HB,Moore BW,Ryan P,Pinnock CB

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AG205 was identified from high-throughput screening as a potent inhibitor of FabK, the enoyl-ACP reductase in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Specific inhibition of lipid biosynthesis in a macromolecular biosynthesis assay and identification of an Ala141Ser substitution in FabK from spontaneous AG205-resistant mutants indic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takahata S,Iida M,Osaki Y,Saito J,Kitagawa H,Ozawa T,Yoshida T,Hoshiko S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a multidrug-resistant organism increasingly isolated from the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. One hundred twenty-five S. maltophilia isolates from 85 CF patients underwent planktonic and biofilm susceptibility testing against 9 different antibiotics, alone and in double antibiot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wu K,Yau YC,Matukas L,Waters V

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of a range of gram-positive and gram-negative microbial pathogens to clofazimine and its analog B669 (0.1 to 32 micrograms/ml), as well as the effects of these agents on membrane phospholipid metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, have been investigated in vitro. Gram-positive b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Rensburg CE,Jooné GK,O'Sullivan JF,Anderson R

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TEM- and SHV-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) are the most common ESBLs found in the United States and are prevalent throughout the world. Amino acid substitutions at a number of positions in TEM-1 lead to the ESBL phenotype, although substitutions at residues 104 (E to K), 164 (R to S or H), 238 (G to S...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones CH,Ruzin A,Tuckman M,Visalli MA,Petersen PJ,Bradford PA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of antibiotic treatment was examined in a mouse model of Lyme borreliosis. Mice were treated with ceftriaxone or saline solution for 1 month, commencing during the early (3 weeks) or chronic (4 months) stages of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi. Tissues from mice were tested for infection by cultu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hodzic E,Feng S,Holden K,Freet KJ,Barthold SW

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical isolate of Enterobacter cloacae, strain NOR-1, exhibited resistance to imipenem and remained susceptible to extended-spectrum cephalosporins. Clavulanic acid partially restored the susceptibility of the strain to imipenem. Two beta-lactamases with isoelectric points (pI) of 6.9 and > 9.2 were detected in st...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nordmann P,Mariotte S,Naas T,Labia R,Nicolas MH

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of the need for new antifungal regimens, we report that at noncandidacidal concentrations, the lactoferrin-derived peptide hLF(1-11), which is highly active against fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans, acts synergistically with fluconazole against this yeast and a fluconazole-sensitive C. albicans strain a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lupetti A,Paulusma-Annema A,Welling MM,Dogterom-Ballering H,Brouwer CP,Senesi S,Van Dissel JT,Nibbering PH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic penetration to the infection site is critical for obtaining a good clinical outcome in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Surprisingly few studies have quantified the penetration of β-lactam agents into the lung, as measured by the ratio of area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) in ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lodise TP,Sorgel F,Melnick D,Mason B,Kinzig M,Drusano GL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of these studies was to evaluate the exposures of meropenem and vaborbactam that would produce antibacterial activity and prevent resistance development in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae strains when tested at an inoculum of 108 CFU/ml. Thirtee...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sabet M,Tarazi Z,Rubio-Aparicio D,Nolan TG,Parkinson J,Lomovskaya O,Dudley MN,Griffith DC

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infections caused by the Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex (MAC) are the most frequent opportunistic bacterial infections in patients with AIDS. MAC isolates are resistant to many of the standard antituberculous drugs. Failure to obtain significant activities of certain drugs is due to difficu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mehta RT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of a mission hospital on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in coliform bacteria from a remote antibiotic-free Xhosa community and environment is described. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Burt SJ,Woods DR

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel antibiotics approved by noninferiority trials may become less effective over time in two scenarios: (i) the treatment effect in studies of novel antibiotics may be consistently worse than studies of older antibiotics; (ii) when a decreasingly effective control arm is used in a series of noninferiority trials. Ou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bai AD,Komorowski AS,Lo CKL,Tandon P,Li XX,Mokashi V,Cvetkovic A,Findlater A,Liang L,Loeb M,Mertz D

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell wall composition and autolytic properties of passage-selected glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (GISA) isolates and their parent strains were studied in order to investigate the mechanism of decreased vancomycin susceptibility. GISA had relatively modest changes in peptidoglycan composition invo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koehl JL,Muthaiyan A,Jayaswal RK,Ehlert K,Labischinski H,Wilkinson BJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a chromosomally encoded putative drug efflux pump of the SMR family, named AbeS, from a multidrug-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii was characterized to elucidate its role in antimicrobial resistance. Expression of the cloned abeS gene in hypersensitive Escherichia coli host KAM32 resulted in ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Srinivasan VB,Rajamohan G,Gebreyes WA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major problem in the treatment of infectious diseases and cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)-specific inhibitor celecoxib would not only inhibit COX-2 but also help in the reversal of drug resistance in cancers by inhibiting the MDR1 efflux pump. He...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kalle AM,Rizvi A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MRE) colonize the intestine asymptomatically from where they can breach into the bloodstream and cause life-threatening infections, especially in heavily colonized patients. Despite the clinical relevance of MRE colonization levels, we know little about how they vary in hospital...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Djukovic A,González-Barberá EM,Sanz J,Artacho A,Peñaranda I,Herrera B,Garzón MJ,Salavert M,López-Hontangas JL,Xavier KB,Kuster B,Debrauwer L,Rolain JM,Sanz MA,Xavier JB,Ubeda C

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of ticarcillin-clavulanic acid was compared with the efficacies of standard antistaphylococcal agents (flucloxacillin, oxacillin, nafcillin, and vancomycin) and ticarcillin in an experimental model of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis. Therapy was either initiated soon (8 h) after infection, when numbers...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Catherall EJ,Gillon V,Hurn S,Irwin R,Mizen L

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of pneumococci resistant to penicillin and other agents prompted us to evaluate intravenous vancomycin for the therapy of pneumococcal meningitis, which has an overall mortality of 30%. Eleven consecutive adult patients with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-culture-proven pneumococcal meningitis and positive in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Viladrich PF,Gudiol F,Liñares J,Pallarés R,Sabaté I,Rufí G,Ariza J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence and severity of infection by Clostridium difficile have stimulated attempts to develop new antimicrobial therapies. We report here the relative abilities of two antibiotics (metronidazole and vancomycin) in current use for treating C. difficile infection and of a third antimicrobial, surotomyc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bouillaut L,McBride S,Sorg JA,Schmidt DJ,Suarez JM,Tzipori S,Mascio C,Chesnel L,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piperacillin is a new semisynthetic, expanded-spectrum penicillin with marked activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The biliary excretion of piperacillin was studied in patients undergoing cholecystectomy. Concentrations of piperacillin in common duct bile at 35 to 90 min postinfusion of 1-g doses ranged from 31 to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giron JA,Meyers BR,Hirschman SZ

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of daptomycin (DAP)-nonsusceptible (DNS) vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) vertebral osteomyelitis cases complicated by bacteremia treated with high-dose daptomycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Both patients responded rapidly and favorably to this combination. The clinical ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Avery LM,Steed ME,Woodruff AE,Hasan M,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It remains controversial whether combination therapy, given empirically or as definitive treatment, for Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia is associated with a better outcome than monotherapy. The aim of the present study was to compare the rates of survival among patients who received either combination therapy or mon...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chamot E,Boffi El Amari E,Rohner P,Van Delden C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberculosis (TB) drug discovery pipeline is fueled by compounds identified in whole-cell screens against the causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phenotypic screening enables the selection of molecules that inhibit essential cellular functions in live, intact bacilli grown under a chosen in vitro condition...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Naran K,Moosa A,Barry CE 3rd,Boshoff HI,Mizrahi V,Warner DF

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of transmitted human immunodeficiency virus type 1 drug resistance in Angola in 2001 in 196 untreated patients was investigated. All subtypes were detected, along with unclassifiable and complex recombinant strains. Numerous new polymorphisms were identified in the reverse transcriptase and protease. Tw...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bártolo I,Rocha C,Bartolomeu J,Gama A,Fonseca M,Mendes A,Cristina F,Thamm S,Epalanga M,Silva PC,Taveira N

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis strain WCH9 displays a moderate level of resistance to vancomycin (MIC = 16 microgram/ml) and full susceptibility to teicoplanin but is negative by PCR analysis using primers specific for all known enterococcal vancomycin resistance genotypes (vanA, vanB, vanC, vanD, and vanE). We have isolated a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McKessar SJ,Berry AM,Bell JM,Turnidge JD,Paton JC

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manogepix is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent that inhibits glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor biosynthesis. Using whole-genome sequencing, we characterized two efflux-mediated mechanisms in the fungal pathogens Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis that resulted in decreased manogepix susceptibility. In C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liston SD,Whitesell L,Kapoor M,Shaw KJ,Cowen LE

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effects of azithromycin (AZM), a new 15-membered macrolide antibiotic, on the production of exotoxin A, total protease, elastase, and phospholipase C by Pseudomonas aeruginosa were determined, and the virulence-suppressing effects of AZM were compared with those of erythromycin (EM), roxithromycin (RXM)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mizukane R,Hirakata Y,Kaku M,Ishii Y,Furuya N,Ishida K,Koga H,Kohno S,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tested against 9,412 recent clinical isolates, cefotaxime exhibited 8 to 64 times greater activity against the Enterobacteriaceae than did cephalothin and two to four times greater activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but only one-half to one-eighth the activity of cephalothin against staphylococci. Using 420 diff...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fuchs PC,Barry AL,Thornsberry C,Jones RN,Gavan TL,Gerlach EH,Sommers HM

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00