Importance of penicillinase production for activity of penicillin alone or in combination with sulbactam in experimental endocarditis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants, young children, elderly persons, and severely immunocompromised patients. Effective postinfection treatments are not widely available, and currently there is no approved vaccine. TMC353121 is a potent RSV fusion ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rouan MC,Gevers T,Roymans D,de Zwart L,Nauwelaers D,De Meulder M,van Remoortere P,Vanstockem M,Koul A,Simmen K,Andries K

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 2,278 isolates belonging to 86 different fungal species was tested with micafungin and eight other drugs using the EUCAST procedures. Micafungin was active against species of Candida and Aspergillus (even azole-resistant species) as well as Penicillium spp., Scedosporium apiospermum, and Acremonium spp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cuenca-Estrella M,Gomez-Lopez A,Mellado E,Monzon A,Buitrago MJ,Rodriguez-Tudela JL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation constants for binding to ribosomes from Escherichia coli and concentrations at which 50% inhibition of [(14)C]erythromycin binding to ribosomes occurred were determined for 45 erythromycin analogues. These values were correlated with their antibacterial activities against Bacillus subtilis. Compounds ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pestka S,Lemahieu R,Miller P

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered 2 g of ceftazidime intravenously every 8 h to cancer patients for the empiric therapy of febrile episodes. Ceftazidime was administered as monotherapy for patients with granulocyte counts in excess of 1,000/microliter. Febrile, neutropenic patients were randomized to also receive either piperacillin or...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Drusano GL,Joshi J,Forrest A,Ruxer R,Standiford H,Leslie J,Wade J,Schimpff S

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis (TB), has surpassed HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. The increasing occurrence of drug-resistant strains has become a major challenge for health care systems and, in some cases, has rendered TB untreatable. Howe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meikle V,Mossberg AK,Mitra A,Hakansson AP,Niederweis M

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten strains each of 18 clinically important species of Clostridium were tested for susceptibility to clindamycin. Of the 180 strains tested, 56 (31%) were resistant to more than 1.6 mug/ml. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wilkins TD,Thiel T

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both scid and BALB/c mouse-Leishmania donovani models, hexadecyphosphocholine (miltefosine) and AmBisome had similar levels of activity. In contrast, sodium stibogluconate (Pentostam) was significantly less active against L. donovani in scid mice than in BALB/c mice. The in vitro anti-leishmanial activity of miltef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escobar P,Yardley V,Croft SL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) has been evaluated as a method to prevent colonization and infection in ventilated patients in 40 trials. On the basis of an assumption that cross-infection would be reduced as a consequence of SDD and that this would distort the results of SDD studies that used c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hurley JC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new recombinant phenotyping method was developed for the analysis of drug resistance mutations in human cytomegalovirus (CMV). CMV strain T2211 was derived from strain AD169 by inserting unique restriction sites and a secreted alkaline phosphatase (SEAP) reporter gene for rapid viral quantitation. Specific viral UL9...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chou S,Van Wechel LC,Lichy HM,Marousek GI

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ethambutol (EMB) is primarily on polymerization steps in the biosynthesis of the arabinan component of cell wall arabinogalactan (AG) of Mycobacterium smegmatis. Inhibition of the synthesis of the arabinan of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) occurred later, and thus in the cases of AG and LAM, the polymerization ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mikusová K,Slayden RA,Besra GS,Brennan PJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 295 ceftiofur-resistant Escherichia coli isolates were obtained from 489 cloacal samples collected at five different Belgian broiler farms with the aim to evaluate the diversity of this resistance at the farm level. Strains were examined for resistance against beta-lactam antibiotics and other antimicrobial...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smet A,Martel A,Persoons D,Dewulf J,Heyndrickx M,Catry B,Herman L,Haesebrouck F,Butaye P

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated fleroxacin, a newer fluoroquinolone, against isolates from sputum from patients with cystic fibrosis. These isolates included rough and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas cepacia, Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, and Escherichia coli. Selected isolates were tested by the broth microd...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Akaniro JC,Vidaurre CE,Stutman HR,Marks MI

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ritonavir-boosted darunavir with efavirenz may be considered a nucleoside-sparing regimen for treatment-naïve HIV-infected patients. However, the pharmacokinetics of this combination administered once daily have not been studied. We conducted a three-period interaction study with healthy volunteers. The subjects were ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Soon GH,Shen P,Yong EL,Pham P,Flexner C,Lee L

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective review of 24 patients with histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, or coccidioidomycosis treated with voriconazole (most for salvage therapy), the outcome was favorable (improved or stable) for 22 (95.8%) within 2 months of starting voriconazole and for 20 (83.3%) at the last follow-up. Prospective studies a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Freifeld A,Proia L,Andes D,Baddour LM,Blair J,Spellberg B,Arnold S,Lentnek A,Wheat LJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the in vitro activities of azithromycin, clarithromycin, minocycline, or tigecycline alone and in combination with amphotericin B, itraconazole, terbinafine, voriconazole, anidulafungin, caspofungin, or micafungin against 30 isolates of the oomycete Pythium insidiosum. The assays were based on the CLS...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jesus FP,Ferreiro L,Loreto ÉS,Pilotto MB,Ludwig A,Bizzi K,Tondolo JS,Zanette RA,Alves SH,Santurio JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term cumulative cytotoxicity of antiretrovirals (ARVs) is among the major causes of treatment failure in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and patients with AIDS. This calls for the development of novel ARVs with less or no cytotoxicity. In the present study, we compared the cytotoxic ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lopes de Campos WR,Coopusamy D,Morris L,Mayosi BM,Khati M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to isoniazid (INH) is largely linked to suppression of a catalase-peroxidase enzyme (KatG) that activates INH. In the absence of KatG, antioxidant protection is provided by enhanced expression of the peroxiredoxin AhpC, which is itself reduced by AhpD, a protein with low al...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koshkin A,Zhou XT,Kraus CN,Brenner JM,Bandyopadhyay P,Kuntz ID,Barry CE 3rd,Ortiz de Montellano PR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of ceftazidime-avibactam, ceftolozane-tazobactam, and comparators were evaluated for 733 isolates displaying resistance to broad-spectrum cephalosporins and carrying extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) genes detected by whole-genome sequencing analysis. Isolates were collected during 2017 in U.S. hospi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Castanheira M,Doyle TB,Mendes RE,Sader HS

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of the biofilm layer produced on a plastic surface by 23 clinical isolates and 1 reference strain of slime-positive, coagulase-negative staphylococci was measured following growth in subinhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of cefamandole or vancomycin ranging from 2 to 0.008 micrograms/ml. All strains were...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dunne WM Jr

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates of the same strain, identified in Poland, produced either TEM-47 or TEM-68, which differed by the Arg275Leu substitution. They harbored a few virulence factors, including an iron-chelating factor and capsule overproduction, suggesting that these factors were sufficient to enhance the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robin F,Hennequin C,Gniadkowski M,Beyrouthy R,Empel J,Gibold L,Bonnet R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside acetyltransferase was detected in Mycobacterium kansasii and M. fortuitum but not in M. avium-M. intracellulare when they were screened by a radioassay. Aminoglycoside phosphotransferase and nucleotidyltransferase activities were absent from all three species tested. Acetyltransferases from both M. kans...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ho II,Chan CY,Cheng AF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The VanA ligase encoded by the vancomycin resistance plasmid pIP816 of Enterococcus faecium BM4147 condenses D-alanine with various D-2-hydroxy and D-2-amino acids in vitro. D-Lactate added to the culture medium restored the vancomycin resistance of a strain that does not produce the VanH dehydrogenase and therefore a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arthur M,Molinas C,Bugg TD,Wright GD,Walsh CT,Courvalin P

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a target site in HIV-1 RNA that was particularly accessible to a ribozyme and a short hairpin RNA (shRNA). To design small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) targeting this site, we evaluated the effects of siRNAs with different lengths on HIV-1 production. The potency and efficacy of these siRNAs...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Scarborough RJ,Adams KL,Daher A,Gatignol A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo activity of human immunoglobulin M monoclonal antibody IN-2A8, which is specific for flagellum type b of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, was evaluated in comparison to anti-O antigen (serotype B) MAb KO-2F2 and in combination with antibiotics. IN-2A8 showed stronger activity than KO-2F2 against subcutaneous infect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Uezumi I,Terashima M,Kohzuki T,Kato M,Irie K,Ochi H,Noguchi H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 20 nucleoside analogs were examined for their inhibitory effects on the cytopathogenicity and growth of influenza virus type A, B, and C strains in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Among the compounds evaluated, pyrazofurin, 3-deazaguanine, ribavirin, carbodine, and cyclopentenyl cytosine inhibited vir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shigeta S,Konno K,Yokota T,Nakamura K,De Clercq E

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoxicillin and ampicillin were compared at a dose of 250 mg twice daily for 4 weeks to treat Salmonella typhi or Salmonella paratyphi A chronic bacteriuria with intermittent bacteremia. Eleven patients received amoxicillin, and 15 received ampicillin. Concentrations of the two drugs were measured in the urine and ser...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bassily SB,Kilpatrick ME,Farid Z,Mikhail IA,El-Masry NA

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel administration of the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) esomeprazole has been shown to decrease oral bioavailability of posaconazole in healthy volunteers. We prospectively analyzed serum samples (n = 59) obtained from hematology patients (n = 27) under posaconazole prophylaxis. Patients treated concomitantly with ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neubauer WC,Engelhardt M,König A,Hieke S,Jung M,Bertz H,Kümmerer K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo antiherpesvirus effects of 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl-E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil (brovavir) were tested in two mouse model infections with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) strains which showed different degrees of virulence in mice. Successful efficacies of oral and intraperitoneal (i.p.) treatments with brova...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Machida H,Takezawa J

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (ARE) and vancomycin-resistant E. faecium (VRE) are important nosocomial pathogens. We quantified effects of probiotics and antibiotics on intestinal acquisition of ARE colonization in patients hospitalized in two non-intensive care unit (non-ICU) wards with high ARE prevalenc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Regt MJ,Willems RJ,Hené RJ,Siersema PD,Verhaar HJ,Hopmans TE,Bonten MJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, a periodontopathogen, has been associated with several systemic diseases. Herein, we report the protective effect of human lactoferrin (hLF) during A. actinomycetemcomitans bacteremia in lactoferrin knockout (LFKO(-/-)) mice. The prophylactic, concurrent, and therapeutic intraven...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Velusamy SK,Poojary R,Ardeshna R,Alabdulmohsen W,Fine DH,Velliyagounder K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00