In vitro activity of a new fluoroquinolone, CP-99,219, against strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

abstract：:Using a real-time PCR assay specific for a mosaic penA allele that has been associated with oral cephalosporin resistance in Asia, 54 available Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates collected in San Francisco, CA, from January to October 2008 were analyzed. Five isolates tested positive for the mosaic penA gene by real-time ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pandori M,Barry PM,Wu A,Ren A,Whittington WL,Liska S,Klausner JD

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to a published concern about the potency and quality of generic vancomycin products, the United States Food and Drug Administration investigated a small sampling of the vancomycin products available in North America with regard to purity, content, and potency. To facilitate identification of impurities, a ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hadwiger ME,Sommers CD,Mans DJ,Patel V,Boyne MT 2nd

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases or plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamases were screened for qnrA and qnrB genes. QnrB was present in 54 of 54 DHA-1-producing K. pneumoniae isolates and 10 of 45 SHV-12-producing ones, suggesting that the distrib...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pai H,Seo MR,Choi TY

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of 112 clinical isolates, 28 type strains, and 9 reference strains of Nocardia were determined using the Sensititre Rapmyco microdilution panel (Thermo Fisher, Inc.). Isolates were identified by highly discriminatory multilocus sequence analysis and were chosen to represent the di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McTaggart LR,Doucet J,Witkowska M,Richardson SE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BL-S786 (ceforanide) is a new cephalosporin which showed broad-spectrum activity in vitro against 453 clinical isolates. At a concentration of 3.12 mug/ml, it inhibited greater than 75% of isolates of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., Proteus mirabilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Streptococcus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weaver SS,LeBlanc BM,Bodey GP

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-newborn rhesus macaque model of AIDS can be used to study directly the virulence of viral mutants which are resistant to antiviral drugs. A viral mutant called SIVmac79A6.1, isolated from an SIV-infected macaque after prolonged zidovudine treatment, was found to have a double-ba...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Rompay KK,Greenier JL,Marthas ML,Otsyula MG,Tarara RP,Miller CJ,Pedersen NC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the structures of quinolones and their anti-Mycobacterium avium activities has been previously derived by using the Multiple Computer-Automated Structure Evaluation program. A number of substructural constraints required to overcome the resistance of most of the strains have been identified. N...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Klopman G,Li JY,Wang S,Pearson AJ,Chang K,Jacobs MR,Bajaksouzian S,Ellner JJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematogenous Candida meningoencephalitis (HCME) is a serious infection in premature neonates. Anidulafungin is an echinocandin antifungal agent with potent activity against Candida spp., but its efficacy and optimal regimens for human neonates with HCME are not known. A well-validated rabbit model of HCME was used to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Warn PA,Livermore J,Howard S,Felton TW,Sharp A,Gregson L,Goodwin J,Petraitiene R,Petraitis V,Cohen-Wolkowiez M,Walsh TJ,Benjamin DK Jr,Hope WW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia marcescens S-95, which displayed an unusually high degree of resistance to aminoglycosides, including kanamycins and gentamicins, was isolated in 2002 from a patient in Japan. The resistance was mediated by a large plasmid which was nonconjugative but transferable to an Escherichia coli recipient by transform...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Doi Y,Yokoyama K,Yamane K,Wachino J,Shibata N,Yagi T,Shibayama K,Kato H,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the correlation of mutations in the pyrazinamidase (PZase) gene (pncA) with the pyrazinamide (PZA) resistance phenotype with 60 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. PZase activity was determined by the method of Wayne (L. G. Wayne, Am. Rev. Respir. Dis. 109:147-151, 1974), and the entire pncA nucleotide se...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morlock GP,Crawford JT,Butler WR,Brim SE,Sikes D,Mazurek GH,Woodley CL,Cooksey RC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of 1,203 Escherichia coli isolates from 44 hospitals in Taiwan revealed that 136 (11.3%) isolates were resistant to fluoroquinolones and that another 261 (21.7%) isolates had reduced susceptibility. Resistance was more common in isolates responsible for hospital-acquired (mostly in intensive care units) infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McDonald LC,Chen FJ,Lo HJ,Yin HC,Lu PL,Huang CH,Chen P,Lauderdale TL,Ho M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the influence of age on the intracortical accumulation kinetics of gentamicin in conscious male rats by using a short-term infusion model. Animals were infused with gentamicin over a 6-h period and achieved individual steady-state levels in serum ranging from 0.5 to 12 micrograms/ml. Young rats were ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beauchamp D,Gourde P,Bergeron MG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inter- and intralaboratory reproducibility of susceptibility testing requires stable control strains. The Food and Drug Administration diffusion procedure recommends the Seattle strains of Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923) and Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) for this purpose. It was of interest to determine the present...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coyle MB,Lampe MF,Aitken CL,Feigl P,Sherris JC

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) strains isolated from 2000 to 2008 were characterized by multilocus sequence typing, multiantigen sequence typing, and plasmid typing. Sequence analysis showed that 8 strains contained a TEM-1 beta-lactamase gene. However, two other genetically distinct PPNG str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ohnishi M,Ono E,Shimuta K,Watanabe H,Okamura N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene of the Staphylococcus aureus fluoroquinolone efflux transporter protein NorA confers resistance to a number of structurally dissimilar drugs, not just to fluoroquinolones, when it is expressed in Bacillus subtilis. NorA provides B. subtilis with resistance to the same drugs and to a similar extent as the B. s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neyfakh AA,Borsch CM,Kaatz GW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus Saprochaete capitata causes opportunistic human infections, mainly in immunocompromised patients with hematological malignancies. The best therapy for this severe infection is still unknown. We evaluated the in vitro killing activity and the in vivo efficacy of posaconazole at 5, 10, or 20 mg/kg twice a day...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thomson P,Guarro J,Mayayo E,Capilla J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of HIV-infected patients coinfected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is challenging due to drug-drug interactions (DDIs) between antiretrovirals (ARVs) and antituberculosis (anti-TB) drugs. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of cobicistat (COBI) or ritonavir (RTV) in modulating DDIs between daru...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roberts O,Khoo S,Owen A,Siccardi M

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrotoxicity is the main complication of gentamicin (GM) treatment. GM induces renal damage by overproduction of reactive oxygen species and inflammation in proximal tubular cells. Phenolic compounds from ginger, called gingerols, have been demonstrated to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. We investiga...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodrigues FA,Prata MM,Oliveira IC,Alves NT,Freitas RE,Monteiro HS,Silva JA,Vieira PC,Viana DA,Libório AB,Havt A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are sensitive to antibiotics in susceptibility testing, but eradication of the infection is difficult. The main reason is the biofilm formation in the airways of patients with CF. The pharmacokinetics (PKs) and pharmacodynamics...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hengzhuang W,Wu H,Ciofu O,Song Z,Høiby N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm production is an important step in the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus epidermidis polymer-associated infections and depends on the expression of the icaADBC operon leading to the synthesis of a polysaccharide intercellular adhesin. A chromosomally encoded reporter gene fusion between the ica promoter and the b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rachid S,Ohlsen K,Witte W,Hacker J,Ziebuhr W

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five isoforms of protein mannosyltransferase (Pmt) O-mannosylate secretory proteins in Candida albicans. pmt mutants were differentially defective for biofilm formation on plastic in static and flow-through systems, and a Pmt inhibitor blocked early stages of biofilm formation. Conceptually, Pmt inhibition may prevent...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Peltroche-Llacsahuanga H,Goyard S,d'Enfert C,Prill SK,Ernst JF

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extended-infusion ceftolozane-tazobactam treatment at 1.5 g every 8 h was used to treat multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a critically ill patient on continuous venovenous hemofiltration. Serum drug concentrations were measured at 1, 4, 5, 6, and 8 h after the start of infusion. Prefilter levels of ceftolo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Oliver WD,Heil EL,Gonzales JP,Mehrotra S,Robinett K,Saleeb P,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2015-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Lactamases from Aeromonas hydrophila and A. sobria were purified and characterized. Both species produced beta-lactamases that were inducible by either cefoxitin or imipenem. These species were resistant to ampicillin and cephalothin but not imipenem. Isoelectric focusing of sonic extracts revealed one band at pI...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Iaconis JP,Sanders CC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung infections caused by Mycobacterium abscessus are emerging as a global threat to individuals with cystic fibrosis and to other patient groups. Recent evidence for human-to-human transmission worsens the situation. M. abscessus is an intrinsically multidrug-resistant pathogen showing resistance to even standard ant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aziz DB,Low JL,Wu ML,Gengenbacher M,Teo JWP,Dartois V,Dick T

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of BMS-207147 against 80 clinical isolates of Aspergillus was compared with that of itraconazole and amphotericin B, using a validated microtiter method. Geometric mean MICs (in microg/ml) were as follows: 1.71 for BMS-207147, 0.67 for itraconazole, and 0.63 for amphotericin B. The range of conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moore CB,Walls CM,Denning DW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of incubation with interferon prior to the stimulation of interferon production (priming) and of sequential treatment with cycloheximide and actinomycin D (superinduction) on the interferon yield from polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly I.poly C)-induced diploid human foreskin cell cultures (FS-3 strain) ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Havell EA,Vilcek J

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gardimycin, a new antibiotic, at 100 mug/ml, specifically inhibited cell wall synthesis and induced accumulation of uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylmur-amylpentapeptide in whole cells of Bacillus subtilis. The antibiotic was active in a particulate enzyme preparation from Bacillus stearothermophilus: 60 mug/ml caused 5...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Somma S,Merati W,Parenti F

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new fluoroquinolone trovafloxacin was tested against a ciprofloxacin-sensitive, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in the rabbit model of endocarditis. Trovafloxacin was more effective than vancomycin (CFU/g of vegetation, 2.65 +/- 1.87 versus 4.54 +/- 2.80 [mean +/- standard deviation]; P < 0.05) ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kim YS,Liu Q,Chow LL,Chambers HF,Täuber MG

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the ex vivo lysogenic transfer of erythromycin and tetracycline resistance genes among group A streptococci (GAS). Of 42 susceptible strains, 69% acquired erythromycin/tetracycline resistance when infected with purified supernatants from strain m46 culture containing the phage Φm46.1. A significant emm-type-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Di Luca MC,D'Ercole S,Petrelli D,Prenna M,Ripa S,Vitali LA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute otitis media, a polymicrobial disease of the middle ear cavity of children, is a significant public health problem worldwide. It is most frequently caused by encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae and nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, although the widespread use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines is apparently ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Domenech M,García E

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00