Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infections during and after therapy with alpha interferon.

abstract：:The antibiotic susceptibilities of 43 strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 identified in the summer of 1996 in Japan were investigated. Growth of 90% of O157 strains was inhibited at a concentration of < or = 0.5 micro/ml by several agents including fosfomycin with glucose-6-phosphate. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsuboi I,Ida H,Yoshikawa E,Hiyoshi S,Yamaji E,Nakayama I,Nonomiya T,Shigenobu F,Shimizu M,O'Hara K,Sawai T,Mizuoka K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current treatment options for bacterial vaginosis (BV) have been shown to be inadequate at preventing recurrence and do not provide protection against associated infections, such as that with HIV. This study examines the feasibility of incorporating the antimicrobial peptide subtilosin within covalently cross-linked p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sundara Rajan S,Cavera VL,Zhang X,Singh Y,Chikindas ML,Sinko PJ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present study was to examine the ability of cytochrome P450-2C9 (CYP2C9) to activate cyclophosphamide (CPA) and elicit tumor cell death. A CYP2C9-deficient human lymphoblastoid cell line (AHH-1 cells) and a derivative cell line (H2C9 cells) stably transfected with a cDNA encoding CYP2C9 were used. The ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhou D,Lu Y,Steiner MS,Dalton JT

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with AIDS and chronic diarrhea caused by Enterocytozoon bieneusi was successfully treated with nitazoxanide, producing a complete clinical and parasitological response, while off of antiviral therapy. This suggests that nitazoxanide may be effective in treating microsporidiosis caused by E. bieneusi, a disea...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bicart-Sée A,Massip P,Linas MD,Datry A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EmbCAB proteins have been considered a target for ethambutol (EMB). Mutations in embCAB are known to confer most EMB resistance. However, the knowledge about the effects of embCAB mutations on the EMB resistance level and about the role of mutation-mutation interactions is limited in China. Here, we sequenced embC...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun Q,Xiao TY,Liu HC,Zhao XQ,Liu ZG,Li YN,Zeng H,Zhao LL,Wan KL

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human norovirus (HuNoV) is a major cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, yet despite its impact on society, vaccines and antivirals are currently lacking. A HuNoV replicon system has been widely applied to the evaluation of antiviral compounds and has thus accelerated the process of drug discovery against H...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitano M,Hosmillo M,Emmott E,Lu J,Goodfellow I

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relevance of prominent reduction in turbidity macroscopically (MIC) and formation of aberrant hyphal tips microscopically (minimum effective concentration; MEC) in measuring the in vitro activity of caspofungin against Aspergillus and Fusarium. Caspofungin generated low MICs and MECs against Asperg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arikan S,Lozano-Chiu M,Paetznick V,Rex JH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P450 enzyme-encoding genes rosC and rosD were cloned from the rosamicin biosynthetic gene cluster of Micromonospora rosaria IFO13697. The functions of RosC and RosD were demonstrated by gene disruption and complementation with M. rosaria and bioconversion of rosamicin biosynthetic intermediates with Esc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Iizaka Y,Higashi N,Ishida M,Oiwa R,Ichikawa Y,Takeda M,Anzai Y,Kato F

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We passaged cells expressing TEM-1 and TEM-12 from a single plasmid through either ampicillin or ceftazidime. We found that the combined effects of recombination and selection removed the bla(TEM-1) allele from the bacterial population when it was passaged through ceftazidime or the bla(TEM-12) allele when cultures we...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mroczkowska JE,Barlow M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard disk diffusion method of Bauer et al. (Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 45:493-496, 1966; National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, Performance standards for antimicrobial disc susceptibility tests, approved standard ASM-2, 2nd ed., 1979) was used to monitor the potency of 16 Autobac antibiotic elution di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gaydos JM,Harrington BJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida lusitaniae is usually susceptible to echinocandins. Beta-1,3-glucan synthase encoded by FKS genes is the target of echinocandins. A few missense mutations in the C. lusitaniae FKS1 hot spot 1 (HS1) have been reported. We report here the rapid emergence of antifungal resistance in C. lusitaniae isolated during ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Asner SA,Giulieri S,Diezi M,Marchetti O,Sanglard D

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of probenecid on the pharmacokinetics and renal clearance of acyclovir were studied in humans. Acyclovir (5 mg/kg) was given as a 1-h infusion to three volunteers with normal renal function both before and after oral administration of probenecid (1 g). The kinetics were well described by a two-compartment ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Laskin OL,de Miranda P,King DH,Page DA,Longstreth JA,Rocco L,Lietman PS

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the influence of in vitro activity, pharmacokinetic properties, and therapeutic regimen on the antibacterial effect in vivo, we compared three cephalosporins, cefotiam, cefmenoxime, and ceftriaxone, in a rabbit model of experimental Escherichia coli endocarditis after 4 days of treatment. The MBCs of cefo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pangon B,Joly V,Vallois JM,Abel L,Buré A,Brion N,Contrepois A,Carbon C

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of inflammatory bacterial products, such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS)/endotoxin, may be increased upon the administration of antibiotics. An improved quantitative understanding of endotoxin release and its relation to antibiotic exposure and bacterial growth/killing may be gained by an integrated analysis o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thorsted A,Tano E,Kaivonen K,Sjölin J,Friberg LE,Nielsen EI

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethambutol (EMB) is a major component of the first-line therapy of tuberculosis. Mutations in codon 306 of embB (embB306) were suggested as a major resistance mechanism in clinical isolates. To directly analyze the impact of individual embB306 mutations on EMB resistance, we used allelic exchange experiments to genera...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Plinke C,Walter K,Aly S,Ehlers S,Niemann S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare the whole-genome sequences of two multidrug-resistant clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates recovered in the same patient before (ABIsac_ColiS susceptible to colistin and rifampin only) and after (ABIsac_ColiR resistant to colistin and rifampin) treatment with colistin and rifampin. We decipher all the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rolain JM,Diene SM,Kempf M,Gimenez G,Robert C,Raoult D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of multiple-dose administration of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) on the pharmacokinetics of morinidazole (MOR) were compared in healthy subjects. MOR exposure was similar, with an area under the curve from 0 h to infinity (AUC0-∞) treatment ratio for MOR+TDF/MOR of 1.01 (90% confidence interval, 0.97...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wu G,Tang W,Lv D,Wu L,Zhou H,Yang X,Zheng Y,Zhai Y,Shentu J

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 4,226 Spanish clinical isolates of Candida spp. were analyzed to assess resistance to voriconazole according to breakpoints established by the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (where susceptibility [S] to voriconazole corresponds to a MIC of ≤ 0.12 mg/liter). Resistance was uncomm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cuenca-Estrella M,Gomez-Lopez A,Cuesta I,Zaragoza O,Mellado E,Rodriguez-Tudela JL,Antifungal Subcommittee of European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) has been linked to the development of microcephaly in newborns, as well as Guillain-Barré syndrome. There are currently no drugs available to treat ZIKV infection, and accordingly, there is an unmet medical need for the discovery of new therapies. High-throughput drug screening efforts focusing on in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bernatchez JA,Yang Z,Coste M,Li J,Beck S,Liu Y,Clark AE,Zhu Z,Luna LA,Sohl CD,Purse BW,Li R,Siqueira-Neto JL

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of newer macrolides in acute Q fever for 113 patients was recorded. The mean times to defervescence were 2.9 days for doxycycline and 3.3, 3.9, 3.9, and 6.4 days for clarithromycin, roxithromycin, erythromycin, and beta-lactams, respectively (P < 0.01 for macrolides versus beta-lactams). We conclude ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gikas A,Kofteridis DP,Manios A,Pediaditis J,Tselentis Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Lactam antibiotics that inhibit penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) have been widely used in the treatment of bacterial infections. However, the molecular basis underlying the different inhibitory potencies of β-lactams against specific PBPs is not fully understood. Here, we present the crystal structures of penicill...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jeong JH,Cha HJ,Kim YG

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease and reverse transcriptase (RT) mutations selected by antiretroviral (ARV) drugs requires ongoing reassessment as ARV treatment patterns evolve and increasing numbers of protease and RT sequences of different viral subtypes are published. Accordingly,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shahriar R,Rhee SY,Liu TF,Fessel WJ,Scarsella A,Towner W,Holmes SP,Zolopa AR,Shafer RW

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria require at least one pathway to rescue ribosomes stalled at the ends of mRNAs. The primary pathway for ribosome rescue is trans-translation, which is conserved in >99% of sequenced bacterial genomes. Some species also have backup systems, such as ArfA or ArfB, which can rescue ribosomes in the absence of suff...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goralski TD,Dewan KK,Alumasa JN,Avanzato V,Place DE,Markley RL,Katkere B,Rabadi SM,Bakshi CS,Keiler KC,Kirimanjeswara GS

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A few international pneumococcal clones dominate the population of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci. Despite the scientific paradigm that a loss in fitness is the price for acquisition of resistance, these clones spread successfully. One hundred fifty-four isolates from adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rudolf D,Michaylov N,van der Linden M,Hoy L,Klugman KP,Welte T,Pletz MW,CAPNETZ Study Group.

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A PCR-based technique using new fluorescent probes, called molecular beacons, was developed to detect the antifolate resistance-associated S108N point mutation in Plasmodium falciparum. One hundred African clinical isolates were tested by the new method in comparison with the PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Durand R,Eslahpazire J,Jafari S,Delabre JF,Marmorat-Khuong A,di Piazza JP,Le Bras J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed an increased prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT) thumb subdomain polymorphisms Pro272, Arg277, and Thr286 in patients failing therapy with nucleoside analogue combinations. Interestingly, wild-type HIV-1(BH10) RT contains Pro272, Arg277, and Thr2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Betancor G,Puertas MC,Nevot M,Garriga C,Martínez MA,Martinez-Picado J,Menéndez-Arias L

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the evolution of drug target genes under changing drug policy is needed to assist monitoring of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance in the field. Here we genotype Pfcrt and Pfdmr1 of 700 isolates collected in French Guiana from 2000 (5 years after withdrawal of chloroquine) to 2008, i.e., the period when...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Legrand E,Yrinesi J,Ekala MT,Péneau J,Volney B,Berger F,Bouchier C,Bertani S,Musset L,Meynard JB,Mercereau-Puijalon O

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus flavus is the second most significant pathogenic cause of invasive aspergillosis; however, its emergence risks and mechanisms of voriconazole (VRC) resistance have not yet been elucidated in detail. Here, we demonstrate that repeated exposure of A. flavus to subinhibitory concentrations of VRC in vitro cau...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ukai Y,Kuroiwa M,Kurihara N,Naruse H,Homma T,Maki H,Naito A

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol delta22-desaturase has been purified from a strain of Candida glabrata with a disruption in the gene encoding sterol 14alpha-demethylase (cytochrome P-45051; CYP51). The purified cytochrome P-450 exhibited sterol delta22-desaturase activity in a reconstituted system with NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase in dila...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lamb DC,Maspahy S,Kelly DE,Manning NJ,Geber A,Bennett JE,Kelly SL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the incidence and type of side effects of minocycline in a double-blind study. A total of 45 volunteers (18 men and 27 women) were given minocycline, and 44 volunteers (23 men and 21 women) were given placebo. The men in both the minocycline and placebo groups were significantly (P < 0.0001) larger than the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fanning WL,Gump DW,Sofferman RA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00