Clarithromycin in treatment of early Lyme disease: a pilot study.

abstract：:Therapeutic options for severe infections caused by strains of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (ORSE) are very limited. With the increasing resistance of such strains to aminoglycosides, rifampin, and currently available quinolone agents, as well as the recent docu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bayer AS,Li C,Ing M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar to Neisseria gonorrhoeae, tetracycline-resistant isolates of N. meningitidis, Kingella denitrificans, and Eikenella corrodens contained 25.2-megadalton plasmids carrying the TetM determinant. In contrast, tetracycline-resistant N. subflava biovar perflava-N. sicca and N. mucosa isolates carried the TetM determ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Knapp JS,Johnson SR,Zenilman JM,Roberts MC,Morse SA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenpropimorph was shown to inhibit the accumulation of the pyrimidine bases uracil and cytosine from the growth media in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Uracil prototrophs of S. cerevisiae were more resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of fenpropimorph than were uracil auxotrophs. High concentrations of uracil rescued...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Crowley JH,Lorenz RT,Parks LW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TBR-652 is a novel CCR5 antagonist with potent in vitro anti-HIV activity. The objective of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of TBR-652 in HIV-1-infected, antiretroviral treatment-experienced, CCR5 antagonist-naïve patients. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marier JF,Trinh M,Pheng LH,Palleja SM,Martin DE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuated activity of echinocandin antifungals at high concentrations, known as the "paradoxical effect," is a well-established phenomenon in Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus. In the yeast C. albicans, upregulation of chitin biosynthesis via the protein kinase C (PKC), high-osmolarity glycerol response (HOG...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fortwendel JR,Juvvadi PR,Perfect BZ,Rogg LE,Perfect JR,Steinbach WJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty volunteers randomly assigned to one of five hand washing agents (10 subjects per agent)--a nonantiseptic liquid soap (control), an antiseptic hand rinse containing 60% isopropyl alcohol (IPA) with emollients (Alc A), an antiseptic hand rinse containing 70% IPA and 0.5% chlorhexidine gluconate with emollients (Al...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Larson EL,Eke PI,Laughon BE

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 UmuDC homologs A1S_0636-A1S_0637, A1S_1174-A1S_1173, and A1S_1389 (UmuDAb) in antibiotic resistance acquired through UV-induced mutagenesis was evaluated. Neither the growth rate nor the UV-related survival of any of the three mutants was significantly different from that...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aranda J,López M,Leiva E,Magán A,Adler B,Bou G,Barbé J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic fate of the orally effective cephalosporin antibiotic cefaclor (Lilly 99638) has been studied in rats, mice, and dogs. Cefaclor is efficiently absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract as the intact antibiotic. In rats and mice, cefaclor, for the most part, escapes metabolism in the body and is eliminated...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sullivan HR,Due SL,Kau DL,Quay JF,Miller W

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VX-787 is a novel inhibitor of influenza virus replication that blocks the PB2 cap-snatching activity of the influenza viral polymerase complex. Viral genetics and X-ray crystallography studies provide support for the idea that VX-787 occupies the 7-methyl GTP (m(7)GTP) cap-binding site of PB2. VX-787 binds the cap-bi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Byrn RA,Jones SM,Bennett HB,Bral C,Clark MP,Jacobs MD,Kwong AD,Ledeboer MW,Leeman JR,McNeil CF,Murcko MA,Nezami A,Perola E,Rijnbrand R,Saxena K,Tsai AW,Zhou Y,Charifson PS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida infections frequently involve drug-resistant biofilm growth on device surfaces. Glucan synthase gene FKS1 has been linked to triazole resistance in Candida biofilms. We tested the impact of FKS1 modulation on susceptibility to additional antifungal classes. Reduction of FKS1 expression rendered biofilms more s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nett JE,Crawford K,Marchillo K,Andes DR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viridin B, a bacteriocin produced by Streptococcus mitis, copurified with the alpha-hemolysin after ammonium sulfate precipitation and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200. The bacteriocin and hemolysin were separated in some instances by ion-exchange chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-Sephadex A-50, but the two substanc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Apelgren LD,Dajani AS

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of combination posaconazole-liposomal amphotericin B (LAmB) therapy to monotherapy with either drug in diabetic ketoacidotic or neutropenic mice with disseminated zygomycosis caused by Rhizopus oryzae. Combination therapy was no better than LAmB alone, and posaconazole monotherapy did not impr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ibrahim AS,Gebremariam T,Schwartz JA,Edwards JE Jr,Spellberg B

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and protein binding of ceforanide were studied in 15 patients undergoing cholecystectomies. Each patient received ceforanide (20 mg/kg) intravenously on arrival in the operating room, after which serial blood samples were collected during the elimination phase for determination of total and free c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： DiPiro JT,Bayoumi SM,Vallner JJ,Nesbit RR,Gokhale R,Rissing JP

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：:The aims of the study were to investigate the prevalence of azole resistance among Aspergillus fumigatus clinical isolates. A total of 533 clinical isolates that had been collected between 1995 and 2006, from 441 patients, were screened. No resistance was detected in isolates collected between 1995 and 1997. Starting ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lazzarini C,Esposto MC,Prigitano A,Cogliati M,De Lorenzis G,Tortorano AM

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) has important sterilizing activity in tuberculosis (TB) chemotherapy. We describe trends, risk factors, and molecular epidemiology associated with PZA-resistant (PZA(r)) Mycobacterium tuberculosis in New York City (NYC). From 2001 to 2008, all incident culture-positive TB cases reported by the NYC D...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verdugo D,Fallows D,Ahuja S,Schluger N,Kreiswirth B,Mathema B

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atovaquone (AV) acts on the malaria parasite by competing with ubiquinol (UQH2) for its union to the mitochondrial bc1 complex, preventing the ubiquinone-8,9 (UQ) redox recycling, which is a necessary step in pyrimidine biosynthesis. This study focused on UQ biosynthesis in Plasmodium falciparum and adopted proof-of-c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verdaguer IB,Crispim M,Zafra CA,Sussmann RAC,Buriticá NL,Melo HR,Azevedo MF,Almeida FG,Kimura EA,Katzin AM

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the phylogenetic groups and virulence factors of 37 Escherichia coli isolates producing types of CTX-M compared with those of 19 isolates producing different types of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) in a well-defined North American population. Most CTX-M-14 producers (97%) were from phy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pitout JD,Laupland KB,Church DL,Menard ML,Johnson JR

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspofungin acetate is an antifungal antibiotic that inhibits synthesis of 1,3-beta-D-glucan, an essential component of the fungal cell wall. While caspofungin causes cell death in yeasts and dimorphic fungi such as Candida albicans, its effect on Aspergillus fumigatus is less well understood. We used the fluorescent ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bowman JC,Hicks PS,Kurtz MB,Rosen H,Schmatz DM,Liberator PA,Douglas CM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of metallo-beta-lactamase and 16S rRNA methylase production were investigated in 51 imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates collected from hospitals in São Paulo, Brazil. Of them, 57% and 75% produced SPM-1 and RmtD, respectively. Of note, 51% produced both enzymes, suggesting that their copr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Doi Y,Ghilardi AC,Adams J,de Oliveira Garcia D,Paterson DL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomally mediated penicillin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae occurs in part through alterations in penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) and a decrease in outer membrane permeability. However, the genetic and molecular mechanisms of transformation of a penicillin-susceptible strain of N. gonorrhoeae to high-leve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ropp PA,Hu M,Olesky M,Nicholas RA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one adult patients hospitalized with lower respiratory tract infections due to Branhamella catarrhalis or Haemophilus influenzae or both were treated with the combination of oral amoxicillin and potassium clavulanate (Augmentin) in an open, noncomparative clinical trial. Diseases included pneumonia, empyema, an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wallace RJ Jr,Steele LC,Brooks DL,Luman JI,Wilson RW,McLarty JW

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential for resistance development in Streptococcus pneumoniae secondary to exposure to gatifloxacin, gemifloxacin, levofloxacin, and moxifloxacin at various levels was examined at high inoculum (10(8.5) to 10(9) log10 CFU/ml) over 96 h in an in vitro pharmacodynamic (PD) model using two fluoroquinolone-suscepti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： LaPlante KL,Rybak MJ,Tsuji B,Lodise TP,Kaatz GW

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of four antifungal agents against 15 systemic (blood and vascular catheter) and 10 superficial (skin) Malassezia furfur isolates was evaluated. MIC ranges were similar for the two groups of organisms: amphotericin B, 0.3 to 2.5 micrograms/ml; flucytosine, greater than 100 micrograms/ml; miconazole, 0.4 to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marcon MJ,Durrell DE,Powell DA,Buesching WJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boronic acid transition state inhibitors (BATSIs) with R1 side chains of cefotaxime and ceftazidime were assayed against SHV-1, SHV-2, SHV-5, D104K, and D104K G238S beta-lactamases. The D104K variant was the most susceptible to inhibition by the ceftazidime BATSI (Ki, 730+/-80 nM), while the D104K G238S variant was th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thomson JM,Prati F,Bethel CR,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meropenem-vaborbactam is a new agent with the potential to treat carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections. We describe the in vitro activity of meropenem-vaborbactam against representative CRE genotypes and laboratory-engineered Escherichia coli isolates harboring mutant blaKPC genes associated with ce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wilson WR,Kline EG,Jones CE,Morder KT,Mettus RT,Doi Y,Nguyen MH,Clancy CJ,Shields RK

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a primary high-throughput screen that uses the reporter strain Bacillus subtilis BAU-102 to identify antibiotics that induce autolysis. The screen measures autolysis in terms of the incipient release of recombinant Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase (beta-Gal) from the periplasmic space of B. subtilis owi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Falk SP,Noah JW,Weisblum B

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piperaquine (PQ) is an antimalarial drug whose high lipid solubility suggests that its absorption can be increased by a high-fat meal. We examined the pharmacokinetics of PQ phosphate (500 mg given orally) in the fasting state and after a high-fat meal in eight healthy Caucasian volunteers (randomized crossover). Plas...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sim IK,Davis TM,Ilett KF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome aa3 concentrations in the cytoplasmic membrane of Bacillus subtilis were altered by growth conditions, and the effects on the membrane potential (delta psi) in whole cells were measured. When cytochrome aa3 was absent, the magnitude of delta psi was not diminished by comparison with the delta psi measured i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arrow AS,Taber HW

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a randomized controlled trial of orally administered amifloxacin versus trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) as treatments of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women. Amifloxacin at a dosage of 200 mg twice a day appeared as safe and effective as TMP-SMX, but amifloxacin at 400 mg twice a d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyko EJ,Iravani A,Silverman MH,Schelling DJ,Wright RA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00