DNA gyrase gyrA mutations in quinolone-resistant clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

abstract：:We used multiplex PCR to determine the agr group membership of 18 European glycopeptide heterointermediate and intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. Of the 15 agr group I strains, 13 were resistant and 2 were susceptible to methicillin. The remaining three strains, like the United States and Japanese c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verdier I,Reverdy ME,Etienne J,Lina G,Bes M,Vandenesch F

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penamaldic derivatives of amoxicillin, ampicillin, and penicillins G and V, stabilized with Zn(2+), were obtained from a methanolic medium. The enzymatic kinetic results show that the these derivatives elicit reversible inhibition of the enzyme metallo-beta-lactamase from Bacillus cereus, with inhibition constant ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Navarro PG,Osso BQ,Ortiz RG,Martínez De Las Parras PJ,Martínez Puentedura MI,Cabeza González MC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of inhibitors of P-glycoprotein (verapamil [VE], cyclosporine [CY], and GF120918 [GF]) on the cell handling of macrolides (erythromycin [ERY], clarithromycin [CLR], roxithromycin [ROX], azithromycin [AZM], and telithromycin [TEL]) was examined in J774 murine macrophages. The net influx rates of AZM and T...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seral C,Michot JM,Chanteux H,Mingeot-Leclercq MP,Tulkens PM,Van Bambeke F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of alleles with triple mutations conferring sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) resistance in the Peruvian Amazon Basin has declined (16.9% for dhfr and 0% for dhps compared to 47% for both alleles in 1997) 5 years after SP was replaced as the first-line treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Microsatel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhou Z,Griffing SM,de Oliveira AM,McCollum AM,Quezada WM,Arrospide N,Escalante AA,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989 and 1990, a large number of ampicillin-resistant strains of Enterococcus faecium were isolated from infected patients treated at intensive care units in Berlin, Germany. Twenty-five clinical isolates, including five different biotypes as classified by acid production from various sugars and a wide range of sus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Klare I,Rodloff AC,Wagner J,Witte W,Hakenbeck R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the activity of daptomycin against 76 Listeria monocytogenes isolates from cerebrospinal fluid by broth dilution and Etest methods. For the broth dilution method, the MIC range was 1.0 to 8.0 and the MIC at which 90% of the isolates tested were inhibited (MIC(90)) was 4.0 mg/liter. For the Etest method, the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spanjaard L,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel trait for transferable resistance to high concentrations of trimethoprim was found to dominate among enterobacteria collected from different parts of Sri Lanka. Drug resistance was a result of the production of dihydrofolate reductase with a decreased sensitivity to antifolates. By characterization of the part...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sundström L,Vinayagamoorthy T,Sköld O

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several non-beta-lactam compounds were active against various gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial strains. The MICs of arylalkylidene rhodanines and arylalkylidene iminothiazolidin-4-ones were lower than those of ampicillin and cefotaxime for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MI339 and vancomycin-resis...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zervosen A,Lu WP,Chen Z,White RE,Demuth TP Jr,Frère JM

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the pharmacokinetic disposition of cefonicid. A single dose of 7.5 mg/kg of body weight was administered to five healthy volunteers as a 5-min intravenous infusion. Multiple plasma and urine samples were collected for 48 h. Peak plasma concentrations ranged from 95 to 156 micrograms/ml and fell s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barriere SL,Hatheway GJ,Gambertoglio JG,Lin ET,Conte JE Jr

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：:Five recombinant alpha interferons and two recombinant beta interferons have been tested for their ability to inhibit yields of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 and human cytomegalovirus in human embryonic lung cells. All of the alpha species and both of the beta forms (cysteine and serine) were active against the h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rasmussen LE,Chen PT,Merigan TC

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:BAL5788 is the water-soluble prodrug of BAL9141, a novel broad-spectrum cephalosporin with potent bactericidal activities against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. We investigated the safety and pharmacokinetics of BAL5788 in a double-blind, single-as...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schmitt-Hoffmann A,Roos B,Schleimer M,Sauer J,Man A,Nashed N,Brown T,Perez A,Weidekamm E,Kovács P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of foscarnet against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was evaluated in nine HIV-infected individuals; six completed 28 days of induction therapy. The overall mean increase in CD4+ lymphocytes was 64 cells per mm3. The mean decline in the HIV antigen concentration was 108 pg/ml (P = 0.03), and suppression ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fletcher CV,Collier AC,Rhame FS,Bennett D,Para MF,Beatty CC,Jones CE,Balfour HH Jr

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difloxacin, A-56620, cefazolin, cefotaxime, ceftizoxime, cephapirin, SK&F 88070, and spectinomycin were used to compare the in vitro susceptibilities of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellular isolates from patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), patients without AIDS, and diseased animals. Against the i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Byrne SK,Geddes GL,Isaac-Renton JL,Black WA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiramycins are clinically important 16-member macrolide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces ambofaciens. Biosynthetic studies have established that the earliest lactonic intermediate in spiramycin biosynthesis, the macrolactone platenolide I, is synthesized by a type I modular polyketide synthase (PKS). Platenolide ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nguyen HC,Darbon E,Thai R,Pernodet JL,Lautru S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative evaluation of daptomycin and eight other antimicrobial agents was performed by the agar dilution technique with 56 strains of vancomycin-resistant gram-positive bacteria, including Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus spp. Erythromycin, deptomycin, clindamycin, and gentamicin exhibited the greates...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de la Maza L,Ruoff KL,Ferraro MJ

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed and validated a high-performance liquid chromatography method coupled with a mass detector to quantify itraconazole, voriconazole, and posaconazole using quinoxaline as the internal standard. The method involves protein precipitation with acetonitrile. Mean accuracy (percent deviation from the true v...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Baietto L,D'Avolio A,Ventimiglia G,De Rosa FG,Siccardi M,Simiele M,Sciandra M,Di Perri G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the activities of anidulafungin and other antifungal agents against clinical isolates of different fungal species. For Candida species, high sessile MIC₉₀s (SMIC₉₀s) were obtained for fluconazole, voriconazole, and amphotericin B, whereas the anidulafungin SMIC₉₀s were very low, as were those for caspofungin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fiori B,Posteraro B,Torelli R,Tumbarello M,Perlin DS,Fadda G,Sanguinetti M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basis of bactericidal versus bacteriostatic action of antibiotics and the mechanism of bacterial cell death are largely unknown. Related to this important issue is the essential invulnerability to killing of persisters: cells forming a small subpopulation largely responsible for the recalcitrance of biofilms to ch...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaldalu N,Mei R,Lewis K

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four infants and children ranging in age from 2.5 to 180 months (mean, 40 months) were treated with parenteral moxalactam (150 mg/kg per day) for suspected or proved bacterial infections outside the central nervous system. Six patients infected with Haemophilus influenzae b, nine infected with Staphylococcus au...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Keyserling H,Feldman WE,Moffitt S,Manning N,Hollins M

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to fluoroquinolones is caused predominantly by amino acid substitutions at positions Ser79 of ParC and Ser81 of GyrA to either Phe or Tyr encoded in the quinolone resistance-determining regions of the parC topoisomerase IV and gyrA DNA gyrase genes. Analysis of highly resistant c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Korzheva N,Davies TA,Goldschmidt R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the documented benefit of voriconazole therapeutic drug monitoring, nonlinear pharmacokinetics make the timing of steady-state trough sampling and appropriate dose adjustments unpredictable by conventional methods. We developed a nonparametric population model with data from 141 previously richly sampled child...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neely M,Margol A,Fu X,van Guilder M,Bayard D,Schumitzky A,Orbach R,Liu S,Louie S,Hope W

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the most frequently identified enteric pathogen in patients with nosocomially acquired, antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The drugs most commonly used to treat diseases associated with C. difficile are metronidazole and vancomycin. Most clinical laboratories assume that all C. difficile isolates...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Peláez T,Alcalá L,Alonso R,Rodríguez-Créixems M,García-Lechuz JM,Bouza E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gatifloxacin pneumococcal, staphylococcal and enterococcal postantibiotic effects (PAEs) were 0.5 to 4.0 h, respectively. For Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, PAEs were 2.2 to 4.8 h. Pneumococcal, staphylococcal, and enterococcal postantibiotic sub-MIC effects (PA-SMEs) (four times the MICs) were 3.7 to 8....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pankuch GA,Jacobs MR,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Characterization of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antileishmanial drugs in preclinical models is important for drug development and use. Here we investigated the pharmacodynamics and drug di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Voak AA,Harris A,Qaiser Z,Croft SL,Seifert K

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis is an increasingly frequent opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. Only two agents, amphotericin B and itraconazole, are licensed for therapy. Itraconazole acts through inhibition of a P-450 enzyme undertaking sterol 14alpha demethylation. In vitro resistance in Aspergillus fumig...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Denning DW,Venkateswarlu K,Oakley KL,Anderson MJ,Manning NJ,Stevens DA,Warnock DW,Kelly SL

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphonoformate was found to be an inhibitor of the deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase induced by the herpesvirus of turkeys. The apparent inhibition constants were 1 to 3 muM. Phosphonoformate was also able to block the replication in cell culture of Marek's disease herpesvirus, the herpesvirus of turkeys, and herpes ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Reno JM,Lee LF,Boezi JA

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of linezolid in empirical therapy of suspected bacteremia remains unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of empirical use of linezolid or glycopeptides in addition to other antibiotics on the 30-day mortality rates in patients with Gram-negative bacteremia. For this purpose, 1,126 patien...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ternavasio-de la Vega HG,Mateos-Díaz AM,Martinez JA,Almela M,Cobos-Trigueros N,Morata L,De-la-Calle C,Sala M,Mensa J,Marcos M,Soriano A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biliary excretion profile of cefixime was studied in 10 patients provided with T-tube drainage of the common bile duct after cholecystectomy. Following a single 200-mg oral dose, the peak concentration of cefixime in bile reached 56.9 +/- 70 mg/liter, approximately 20 times as high as the peak concentration in ser...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Westphal JF,Jehl F,Schloegel M,Monteil H,Brogard JM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00