Bactericidal action of dapsone against Mycobacterium leprae in mice.

abstract：:Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) is a potent inactivator of the enveloped bacterial virus ø6 at concentrations as low as 3 x 10(-5) M. The viral envelope is not removed by BHT treatment, in contrast to the effects of exposure to the detergent Triton X-100. BHT-treated viruses are morphologically indistinguishable from c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wanda P,Cupp J,Snipes W,Deith A,Rucinsky T,Polish L,Sands J

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) strain Mu50 carries two mutations in the vraSR and graRS two-component regulatory systems (TCRSs), namely, vraS(I5N) and graR(N197S) (hereinafter designated graR). The clinical heterogeneously vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (hVISA) strain Mu3 shares ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matsuo M,Hishinuma T,Katayama Y,Cui L,Kapi M,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified recombinant protein encoded by the BXLF-I open reading frame of the Epstein-Barr virus genome has thymidine kinase activity. The substrate behaviors of various nucleosides toward this enzyme were tested. Halogenated deoxyuridines, zidovudine, and bromovinyldeoxyuridine are efficient substrates, while acyclovi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tung PP,Summers WC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a veterinary and behavioral survey of chimpanzees from a natural population in Uganda, leaf samples of Trichilia rubescens were collected because of the unusual method of ingestion observed. The methanolic crude extract of T. rubescens leaves exhibited significant antimalarial activity in vitro. Bioassay-dir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Krief S,Martin MT,Grellier P,Kasenene J,Sévenet T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to quantitate cefotaxime and its active metabolite, desacetyl cefotaxime, in the distal airways and to compare these levels to concentrations in plasma. Respiratory secretions were obtained from the subsegmental level in 17 adult patients undergoing fiber-optic bronchoscopy within 2 h a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fick RB Jr,Alexander MR,Prince RA,Kasik JE

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged antimicrobial therapy is recommended for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bone and joint infections (BJI), but its safety profile and risk factors for severe adverse events (SAE) in clinical practice are unknown. We addressed these issues in a retrospective cohort study (2001 to 2011) ana...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Valour F,Karsenty J,Bouaziz A,Ader F,Tod M,Lustig S,Laurent F,Ecochard R,Chidiac C,Ferry T,Lyon BJI Study Group.

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins are small cationic bactericidal peptides present abundantly in the granules of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). Human PMNs contain four defensins termed HNP-1 to HNP-4. We used a new assay system in agar plates, the radial diffusion assay, to evaluate the effects of human defensins against gram-positive...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takemura H,Kaku M,Kohno S,Hirakata Y,Tanaka H,Yoshida R,Tomono K,Koga H,Wada A,Hirayama T,Kamihira S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have estimated the excess inpatient costs due to nosocomial cultures of Gram-negative bacteria (GNB), and those that do are often subject to time-dependent bias. Our objective was to generate estimates of the attributable costs of the underlying infections associated with nosocomial cultures by using a uni...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nelson RE,Stevens VW,Jones M,Khader K,Schweizer ML,Perencevich EN,Rubin MA,Samore MH

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Indole-2-carboxamide derivatives are inhibitors of MmpL3, the cell wall-associated mycolic acid transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis In the present study, we characterized indoleamide effects on bacterial cell morphology and reevaluated pharmacokinetics and in vivo efficacy using an optimized oral formulation. Mo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lun S,Tasneen R,Chaira T,Stec J,Onajole OK,Yang TJ,Cooper CB,Mdluli K,Converse PJ,Nuermberger EL,Raj VS,Kozikowski A,Bishai WR

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete and the causative agent of Lyme disease, has been reported to be susceptible to a variety of antimicrobial agents. In this investigation, the action of vancomycin, a glycopeptide antibiotic not previously known to have activity against spirochetes, against borrelias was examined. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dever LL,Jorgensen JH,Barbour AG

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) of antimicrobial dosage regimens during drug development to derive predicted target attainment values is frequently used to choose the optimal dose for the treatment of patients in phase 2 and 3 studies. A criticism is that pharmacokinetic (PK) parameter estimates and variability in health...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Muller AE,Schmitt-Hoffmann AH,Punt N,Mouton JW

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefoxitin resistance, but not resistance to clindamycin, erythromycin, lincomycin, or tetracycline, was transferred by a conjugation-like process from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron UN101, a clinical isolate haboring four kinds of plasmids, to other Bacteroides species. Of a sample of 20 cefoxitin-resistant transconjuga...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rashtchian A,Dubes GR,Booth SJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to assess the influence that treatment with antacid and ranitidine had on the pharmacokinetics of oral cefetamet pivoxil in 18 healthy male volunteers. Each subject received, in an open-labeled, randomized, three-way crossover design, a single oral dose of 1,000 mg (two tablets) o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blouin RA,Kneer J,Ambros RJ,Stoeckel K

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of two prodrugs of zidovudine (AZT), 1,4-dihydro-1-methyl-3-[(pyridylcarbonyl)oxy] ester and isoleucinyl ester (DPAZT and IAZT, respectively), were investigated in a rabbit model to determine their potential utility as drugs against human immunodeficiency virus. Drugs were administered by intraven...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lupia RH,Ferencz N,Lertora JJ,Aggarwal SK,George WJ,Agrawal KC

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MICs of pyrazinamide (PZA) were determined for Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultivated under different pH conditions in 7H12 liquid medium. Mycobacterial growth was monitored by the radiometric method (BACTEC system; Johnston Laboratories, Inc., Towson, Md.). We observed a predictable eightfold difference between th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Salfinger M,Heifets LB

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:One hundred thirty nonimmune subjects living in Yaoundé, Cameroon, completed an 18-month prospective study on the efficacy and safety of weekly chloroquine and daily proguanil (chloroguanide) (Ch-P) in malaria prevention. A total of 9 of 78 Ch-P-treated subjects and 26 of 52 subjects who received no prophylaxis contra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gozal D,Hengy C,Fadat G

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of cefotaxime, moxalactam, MK 0787 (N-formimidoyl thienamycin), ampicillin, oxacillin, vancomycin, and clindamycin were compared against gram-positive cocci. MK 0787 was the most active and moxalactam was the least active of these drugs, except against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, where ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cherubin CE,Corrado ML,Sierra MF,Gombert ME,Shulman M

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal infections, especially infections caused by Candida albicans, remain a challenging problem in clinical settings. Despite the development of more-effective antifungal drugs, their application is limited for various reasons. Thus, alternative treatments with drugs aimed at novel targets in C. albicans are needed....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li X,Hou Y,Yue L,Liu S,Du J,Sun S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:wALADin1 benzimidazoles are specific inhibitors of δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase from Wolbachia endobacteria of filarial nematodes. We report that wALADin1 and two derivatives killed blood stage Plasmodium falciparum in vitro (50% inhibitory concentrations, 39, 7.7, and 12.8 μM, respectively). One of these derivat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lentz CS,Sattler JM,Fendler M,Gottwalt S,Halls VS,Strassel S,Arriens S,Hannam JS,Specht S,Famulok M,Mueller AK,Hoerauf A,Pfarr KM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the 176 randomly selected, commensal, gram-negative bacteria isolated from healthy children with low exposure to antibiotics, 138 (78%) carried one or more of the seven macrolide resistance genes tested in this study. These isolates included 79 (91%) isolates from the oral cavity and 59 (66%) isolates from urine sa...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ojo KK,Ulep C,Van Kirk N,Luis H,Bernardo M,Leitao J,Roberts MC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguably, one of the most common and consequential laboratory tests performed in the world is Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility testing. M. tuberculosis resistance is defined by growth of > or =1% of a bacillary inoculum on the critical concentration of an antibiotic. The critical concentration was chosen base...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gumbo T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first description of the metallo-β-lactamase VIM-31, a new variant of VIM-2 with Tyr224His and His252Arg mutations, in Enterobacter cloacae 11236, which was isolated from blood specimens of a patient with colonic adenocarcinoma in Belgium. bla(VIM-31) was found on a class 1 integron located on a self-tra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bogaerts P,Bebrone C,Huang TD,Bouchahrouf W,Degheldre Y,Deplano A,Hoffmann K,Glupczynski Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies using laboratory clones have demonstrated that several antiretroviral protease inhibitors (PIs) inhibit the growth of Plasmodium falciparum at concentrations that may be of clinical significance, especially during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and malaria coinfection. Using clinical isolat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lek-Uthai U,Suwanarusk R,Ruengweerayut R,Skinner-Adams TS,Nosten F,Gardiner DL,Boonma P,Piera KA,Andrews KT,Machunter B,McCarthy JS,Anstey NM,Price RN,Russell B

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to establish a screening system for xenosiderophores which can be utilized by mycobacteria, we generated a set of mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis that are blocked in different steps of the well-known iron acquisition system. One mutant with a block in mycobactin biosynthesis was generated from strain mc(2)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schumann G,Möllmann U

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly frequent reports have described the in vivo loss of daptomycin susceptibility in association with clinical treatment failures. The mechanism(s) of daptomycin resistance is not well understood. We studied an isogenic set of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the bloodstream of a daptomycin-treated patient...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones T,Yeaman MR,Sakoulas G,Yang SJ,Proctor RA,Sahl HG,Schrenzel J,Xiong YQ,Bayer AS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium smegmatis is a fast-growing nonpathogenic species particularly useful in studying basic cellular processes of relevance to pathogenic mycobacteria. This study focused on the D-alanine racemase gene (alrA), which is involved in the synthesis of D-alanine, a basic component of peptidoglycan that forms the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chacon O,Feng Z,Harris NB,Cáceres NE,Adams LG,Barletta RG

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gatifloxacin is an 8-methoxy fluoroquinolone effective against a broad spectrum of pathogens common in pediatric infections. The safety and pharmacokinetics of a single dose of gatifloxacin were studied in pediatric patients from 6 months to 16 years of age. Seventy-six pediatric patients (average age, 6.7 +/- 5.0 yea...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Capparelli EV,Reed MD,Bradley JS,Kearns GL,Jacobs RF,Damle BD,Blumer JL,Grasela DM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ColE1 plasmids are small mobilizable replicons that play an important role in the spread of antibiotic resistance in Pasteurellaceae In this study, we describe how a natural single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) near the origin of replication of the ColE1-type plasmid pB1000 found in a Pasteurella multocida clinical is...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Santos-Lopez A,Bernabe-Balas C,Ares-Arroyo M,Ortega-Huedo R,Hoefer A,San Millan A,Gonzalez-Zorn B

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00