Multiple-drug-resistant mutants of feline immunodeficiency virus selected with 2',3'-dideoxyinosine alone and in combination with 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine.

abstract：:A survey carried out in 2005 among members of a healthy population of children living in Bolivia and Peru revealed that fecal carriage of Escherichia coli strains resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins was remarkably increased compared to that observed in the same settings in 2002 (1.7% in 2005 versus 0.1% in 2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pallecchi L,Bartoloni A,Fiorelli C,Mantella A,Di Maggio T,Gamboa H,Gotuzzo E,Kronvall G,Paradisi F,Rossolini GM

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the neuraminidase (NA) inhibitor oseltamivir is currently our first line of defense against a pandemic threat, there is little information about whether in vitro testing can predict the in vivo effectiveness of antiviral treatment. Using a panel of five H5N1 influenza viruses (H5 clades 1 and 2), we determined t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Govorkova EA,Ilyushina NA,McClaren JL,Naipospos TS,Douangngeun B,Webster RG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii enters host cells via an active, self-driven process to fulfill its need for intracellular replication and survival. Successful host cell invasion is governed by sequential release of secretory proteins from three specialized organelles, including the micronemes, which contribute adhesive proteins ne...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Teo CF,Zhou XW,Bogyo M,Carruthers VB

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central-line-associated bloodstream infections are increasingly recognized to be associated with intraluminal microbial biofilms, and effective measures for the prevention and treatment of bloodstream infections remain lacking. This report evaluates a new commercially developed antimicrobial catheter lock solution (AC...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chandra J,Long L,Isham N,Mukherjee PK,DiSciullo G,Appelt K,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of investigating home therapy for enterococcal endocarditis, we compared the efficacy of teicoplanin combined with gentamicin given once a day or in three daily doses (t.i.d.) with the standard treatment, ampicillin plus gentamicin administered t.i.d., for treating experimental enterococcal endocarditis. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： López P,Gavaldà J,Martin MT,Almirante B,Gomis X,Azuaje C,Borrell N,Pou L,Falcó V,Pigrau C,Pahissa A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of ACH-702 and other antimicrobials against 30 Nocardia brasiliensis isolates were tested. The MIC(50) (MIC for 50% of the strains tested) and MIC(90) values of ACH-702 were 0.125 and 0.5 microg/ml. The same values for econazole were 2 and 4 microg/ml. The MIC(50) and MIC(90) values of imipenem...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vera-Cabrera L,Campos-Rivera MP,Escalante-Fuentes WG,Pucci MJ,Ocampo-Candiani J,Welsh O

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus infections are associated with high mortality rates and high treatment costs. Limited available antifungals and increasing antifungal resistance highlight an urgent need for new antifungals. Thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) is essential for maintaining redox homeostasis and presents as a promising ta...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marshall AC,Kidd SE,Lamont-Friedrich SJ,Arentz G,Hoffmann P,Coad BR,Bruning JB

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine intubated patients were given a single, 2-g intravenous dose of aztreonam over 5 min. Samples of serum and bronchial secretion were obtained 2, 4, and 8 h after administration and assayed for aztreonam content. The mean concentrations in bronchial secretion ranged from 1.9 to 5.2 micrograms/ml and tended to be hi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bechard DL,Hawkins SS,Dhruv R,Friedhoff LT

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative pathogens, biofilm-associated infections are increasingly harder to treat and combination therapy with colistin has become one of the most efficient therapeutic strategies. Our study aimed to evaluate the potential for the synergy of colistin combined ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tan JH,Vidaillac C,Yam JKH,Chua SL,Givskov M,Yang L

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the emergence of five carbapenem-resistant K1 hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) strains which caused fatal infections in hospital patients in Zhejiang Province, China, upon entry through surgical wounds. Genotyping results revealed the existence of three genetically related strains which exhibited a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhang R,Lin D,Chan EW,Gu D,Chen GX,Chen S

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin is a commonly used antibiotic for the treatment of gram-negative-bacterial infections. Bacterial endotoxin is liberated during antibiotic therapy, and we have shown that endotoxemic animals accumulate more aminoglycosides in their renal parenchyma than normal animals. Vasoactive mediators, such as prostagla...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bergeron MG,Bergeron Y,Tardif M,Marchand S,Beauchamp D

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefepime following administration of a single 2-g dose were evaluated for 12 adult patients with thermal burn injury and suspected or documented infection. Serial blood and urine samples for cefepime concentration determination were obtained for 24 h following drug administration. Serum and uri...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bonapace CR,White RL,Friedrich LV,Norcross ED,Bosso JA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Nonadecynoic acid (6-NDA), a plant-derived acetylenic acid, exhibits strong inhibitory activity against the human fungal pathogens Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. In the present study, transcriptional profiling coupled with mutant and biochemical analyses were conducted usin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xu T,Tripathi SK,Feng Q,Lorenz MC,Wright MA,Jacob MR,Mask MM,Baerson SR,Li XC,Clark AM,Agarwal AK

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is increasingly being isolated from the respiratory tract of individuals with cystic fibrosis, and, because of its multidrug-resistant nature, the selection of suitable treatment regimens can be problematical. Etest methodology was used to facilitate MIC and antimicrobial combination testi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Milne KE,Gould IM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-based in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing is the foundation for guiding anti-infective therapy and monitoring antimicrobial resistance trends. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) technology to identify known antimicrobial resistance determinants among strains of nontyphoidal Salmonella and corre...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McDermott PF,Tyson GH,Kabera C,Chen Y,Li C,Folster JP,Ayers SL,Lam C,Tate HP,Zhao S

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Kill-kinetic methods were used to provide data on the bactericidal activity of subinhibitory (0.5x MIC), inhibitory (1x MIC), and suprainhibitory (4x MIC) concentrations of LY146032 against methicillin-susceptible and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. These bactericidal activities were c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stratton CW,Liu C,Weeks LS

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-center study of 1,838 clinical isolates established the accuracy of diffusion susceptibility tests with 30-mug cephalothin disks and 30-mug cefamandole disks. The same interpretive zone standards can be applied to tests with either disk but the two drugs cannot be tested interchangeably. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barry AL,Schoenknecht FD,Shadomy S,Sherris JC,Thornsberry C,Washington JA,Kammer RB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of growth inhibition of Escherichia coli by thioglycerol was probed. The extent of growth inhibition depended on the ratio of thioglycerol to initial cell concentration. Exogenously added methionine and several methionine analogues reversed the inhibition of 2 to 40 mM thioglycerol. Exposure to thioglyce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Javor GT

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis pathways of two anthracyclines, nogalamycin and aclacinomycin, were directed toward angucyclines by using an angucycline-specific cyclase, pgaF, isolated from a silent antibiotic biosynthesis gene cluster. Addition of pgaF to a gene cassette that harbored the early biosynthesis genes of nogalamycin re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Metsä-Ketelä M,Palmu K,Kunnari T,Ylihonko K,Mäntsälä P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a prospective, randomized comparison of oral ciprofloxacin with standard parenteral therapies for the treatment of biopsy-proven osteomyelitis caused by susceptible organisms. Following surgical debridement, the ciprofloxacin patients received 750 mg twice a day, and the other patients received a broad-sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gentry LO,Rodriguez GG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtherapeutic levels of oxytetracycline plus neomycin in animal feeds did not bring about increases in the quantity, prevalence, or shedding of Salmonella typhimurium in swine, calves, or chickens. In fact, the medication generally reduced the proportion of animals carrying S. typhimurium. The medicated groups were f...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Girard AE,English AR,Evangelisti DG,Lynch JE,Solomons IA

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxin B nonapeptide, derived by cleavage of the fatty acyl diaminobutyric acid from polymyxin B, is considerably less toxic, lacks bactericidal activity, and retains its ability to render gram-negative bacteria susceptible to several antibiotics by permeabilizing their outer membranes. The peptide rendered all 53 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ofek I,Cohen S,Rahmani R,Kabha K,Tamarkin D,Herzig Y,Rubinstein E

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria control is hindered by the evolution and spread of resistance to antimalarials, necessitating multiple changes to drug policies over time. A comprehensive antimalarial drug resistance surveillance program is vital for detecting the potential emergence of resistance to antimalarials, including current artemisin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lucchi NW,Komino F,Okoth SA,Goldman I,Onyona P,Wiegand RE,Juma E,Shi YP,Barnwell JW,Udhayakumar V,Kariuki S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery and use of penicillin, the increase of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens has become a major health concern. The most prevalent resistance mechanism in Gram-negative bacteria is due to β-lactamase expression. Class D β-lactamases are of particular importance due to their presence in mu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： June CM,Vallier BC,Bonomo RA,Leonard DA,Powers RA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) isolate was obtained from a patient in Pennsylvania in September 2002. Species identification was confirmed by standard biochemical tests and analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA, gyrA, and gyrB sequences; all of the results were consistent with the S. aureus identification...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tenover FC,Weigel LM,Appelbaum PC,McDougal LK,Chaitram J,McAllister S,Clark N,Killgore G,O'Hara CM,Jevitt L,Patel JB,Bozdogan B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin and tobramycin inhibited the accumulation of extracellular proteases secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The secretion of protease was inhibited at concentrations of these drugs that were below the level required to inhibit general protein synthesis. Neither magnesium ions nor high ionic strength antagonize...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Warren RL,Baker NR,Johnson J,Stapleton MJ

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azithromycin is an effective treatment for uncomplicated infections with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and serovar Paratyphi A (enteric fever), but there are no clinically validated MIC and disk zone size interpretative guidelines. We studied individual patient data from three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parry CM,Thieu NT,Dolecek C,Karkey A,Gupta R,Turner P,Dance D,Maude RR,Ha V,Tran CN,Thi PL,Be BP,Phi LT,Ngoc RN,Ghose A,Dongol S,Campbell JI,Thanh DP,Thanh TH,Moore CE,Sona S,Gaind R,Deb M,Anh HV,Van SN,

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fleroxacin was administered to seven lactating women as a single oral dose of 400 mg. Plasma, urine, and milk samples were collected for up to 48 h after administration. Drug concentrations were determined by a reversed-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography method and were used for the pharmacokinetic evaluation. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dan M,Weidekamm E,Sagiv R,Portmann R,Zakut H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of attenuated Bacillus anthracis with high-level ciprofloxacin resistance were isolated using a three-step in vitro selection. Ciprofloxacin MICs were 0.5 micro g/ml for first-step mutants, which had one of two gyrA quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) mutations. Ciprofloxacin MICs were 8 and 16 micr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Price LB,Vogler A,Pearson T,Busch JD,Schupp JM,Keim P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninferiority trial design and analyses are commonly used to establish the effectiveness of a new antimicrobial drug for treatment of serious infections such as complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI). A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to estimate the treatment effects of three potential active ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singh KP,Li G,Mitrani-Gold FS,Kurtinecz M,Wetherington J,Tomayko JF,Mundy LM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00