Comparison of 5-episisomicin (Sch 22591), gentamicin, sisomicin, and tobramycin in treatment of experimental Pseudomonas infections in mice.

abstract：:No studies have investigated whether discontinuation of ethambutol (EMB) based on the susceptibility to isoniazid and rifampin as determined by the GenoType MTBDRplus assay would be appropriate. We aimed to determine the feasibility of discontinuing EMB before the end of intensive phase treatment based on the result o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jo KW,Kim M,Kim YJ,Lee HK,Kim HK,Jeon D,Lyu J,Park HK,Mok J,Kim JS,Heo EY,Choi SB,Yim JJ,Shim TS

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 6-amino-2-n-pentylthiobenzothiazole (APB), a new antifungal agent, on ergosterol biosynthesis in Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae were studied, using [14C]acetate incorporation. In C. albicans, the inhibition of growth was accompanied by a marked inhibition of acetate incorporation in 4-des...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kuchta T,Léka C,Farkas P,Bujdáková H,Belajová E,Russell NJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new recombinant retroviral system in which a library of infectious molecular clones of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is constructed with reverse transcriptase (RT) genes derived from viral RNA sequences in plasma. HIV-1 RT is amplified from plasma HIV-1 RNA by nested RT-PCR and cloned...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shi C,Mellors JW

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytical method for the quantitation of amifloxacin, 6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-1-(methylamino)-7-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-4-oxo-3- quinolinecarboxylic acid, in plasma and urine has been developed. The method involves extraction with chloroform, back-extraction into 0.1 M sodium hydroxide, and subsequent analysis by re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCoy LF,Crawmer BP,Benziger DP

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation, 2,4-dinitrophenol, and an aconitase inhibitor, fluoroacetic acid, both of which are known to lower the cellular ATP pool, protected Escherichia coli cells from the bactericidal actions of gyrase poisons including quinolone antibiotics, nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin, and th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li TK,Liu LF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptosporidium parvum, members of the phylum Apicomplexa, are significant pathogens of both humans and animals worldwide for which new and effective therapeutics are needed. Here we describe the activity of the antibiotic boromycin against Toxoplasma and Cryptosporidium Boromycin potently inhibi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Abenoja J,Cotto-Rosario A,O'Connor R

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six strains, representing eight species of salmonellae of diverse geographic origin and possessing a variety of antimicrobial resistance profiles, were tested for susceptibility to niridazole by the agar dilution method. Calculated MICs for 50 and 90% of strains were 4.8 and 16.0 mg/liter, respectively, with a s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bannatyne RM,Jackowski J,Grant RB

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional therapy for human cytomegalovirus (CMV) relies on inhibition of the viral DNA polymerase. Ganciclovir (GCV) is the first-line therapy, but when GCV-resistant strains emerge, alternative therapies are extremely limited and are associated with significant toxicities. Combination of anti-CMV agents that act ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cai H,Kapoor A,He R,Venkatadri R,Forman M,Posner GH,Arav-Boger R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of measles virus in BSC cells was studied in the presence of enflurane (2-chloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether), a commonly used volatile anesthetic agent, and its isomer, isoflurane (1-chloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether). At clinical concentrations of the anesthetics (up to 4%), ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Knight PR,Nahrwold ML,Bedows E

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enucleated human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN cytoplasts), which have no nuclei and only a few granules, retain many of the functions of intact neutrophils. To better define the mechanisms and intracellular sites of antimicrobial agent accumulation in human neutrophils, we studied the antibiotic uptake process in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hand WL,King-Thompson NL

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of NVP-PDF386 (VRC4887), a novel new peptide deformylase inhibitor, and those of levofloxacin and clarithromycin were tested against 21 isolates of Chlamydia pneumoniae. The MIC at which 90% of the isolates were inhibited and the minimal bactericidal concentration at which 90% of the isolates wer...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roblin PM,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline analogs fell into two classes on the basis of their mode of action. Tetracycline, chlortetracycline, minocycline, doxycycline, and 6-demethyl-6-deoxytetracycline inhibited cell-free translation directed by either Escherichia coli or Bacillus subtilis extracts. A second class of analogs tested, including c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rasmussen B,Noller HF,Daubresse G,Oliva B,Misulovin Z,Rothstein DM,Ellestad GA,Gluzman Y,Tally FP,Chopra I

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian serum amyloid A (SAA) is a major acute phase protein that shows a massive increase in plasma concentration during inflammation. In the present study, we demonstrate that the expression of mouse SAA1 in serum was increased when infected with Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen, in a systemic infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gong J,Wu J,Ikeh M,Tao L,Zhang Y,Bing J,Nobile CJ,Huang G

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The disposition of cefonicid (2 g intravenously every 24 h) was assessed in 15 patients with skin and skin structure infections. Trough and peak concentrations in serum were measured on two successive days to verify the attainment of steady state; and 1 trough and 12 postdose values of the concentration in serum were ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Heim-Duthoy KL,Peltier GL,Guay DR,Matzke GR

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:Sixteen clinical fungal isolates were tested for antibiotic susceptibility by using disks impregnated with growth medium and antibiotic. The procedure was easier to perform, less time consuming, and as reliable as other currently available methods. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyer JE

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential for resistance development in Streptococcus pneumoniae secondary to exposure to gatifloxacin, gemifloxacin, levofloxacin, and moxifloxacin at various levels was examined at high inoculum (10(8.5) to 10(9) log10 CFU/ml) over 96 h in an in vitro pharmacodynamic (PD) model using two fluoroquinolone-suscepti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： LaPlante KL,Rybak MJ,Tsuji B,Lodise TP,Kaatz GW

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-pseudomonas activities of azlocillin and mezlocillin were compared with that of ticarcillin. We measured the minimal inhibitory and minimal bactericidal concentrations of the three drugs against 20 different strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and found significantly lower values for azlocillin than for the oth...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coppens L,Klastersky J

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) is the most common mechanism of carbapenem resistance in the United States; however, until now, KPC-producing isolates have not been found in western Michigan. Molecular typing of two KPC-producing K. pneumoniae isolates from Michigan showed their similarity to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitchel B,Sundin DR,Patel JB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R plasmids identified in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated in our laboratories were classified by their incompatibility characters by using intraspecies conjugation in P. aeruginosa. The fertility factor, FP2, was compatible with R plasmids belonging to all groups, and was classified in a new group. From these d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sagai H,Hasuda K,Iyobe S,Bryan LE,Holloway BW,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified a novel plasmid-mediated RND-type efflux pump gene cluster, tmexCD1-toprJ1 in Klebsiella pneumoniae, that conferred resistance to multiple antimicrobials, including tigecycline. While homologs of tmexCD1-toprJ1 were found encoded in many other bacterial species in GenBank, their function and tra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang CZ,Gao X,Yang QW,Lv LC,Wan M,Yang J,Cai ZP,Liu JH

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding protein 5 (PBP5) is one of the most abundant PBPs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Although its main function is that of a cell wall dd-carboxypeptidase, it possesses sufficient β-lactamase activity to contribute to the ability of P. aeruginosa to resist the antibiotic activity of the β-lactams. The study...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smith JD,Kumarasiri M,Zhang W,Hesek D,Lee M,Toth M,Vakulenko S,Fisher JF,Mobashery S,Chen Y

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Nephrotoxicity is the major limiting factor for the clinical use of vancomycin (VCM) for treatment of serious infections caused by multiresistant Gram-positive bacteria. This study investigated the renal protective activity of rutin in a rat model of VCM-induced kidney injury in male Wistar rats. VCM administered intr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Qu S,Dai C,Lang F,Hu L,Tang Q,Wang H,Zhang Y,Hao Z

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:GSQ1530 is a compound derived from a newly identified class of antibiotics referred to as heteroaromatic polycyclic (HARP) antibiotics. The aim of this study was to assess the in vitro antimicrobial activity of GSQ1530. By using an NCCLS broth microdilution assay, the activities of GSQ1530 and other antibiotics were c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ge Y,Difuntorum S,Touami S,Critchley I,Bürli R,Jiang V,Drazan K,Moser H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-l-2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxy-N(4)-hydroxycytidine (l-Hyd4C) was demonstrated to be an effective and highly selective inhibitor of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication in HepG2.2.15 cells (50% effective dose [ED(50)] = 0.03 microM; 50% cytotoxic dose [CD(50)] = 2,500 microM). In the present study, we investigate...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matthes E,Bünger H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the sequence upstream from qnrB (but not qnrA or qnrS) is a LexA binding site. qnrB was shown to be under SOS control by demonstrating that quinolone susceptibility decreased with increasing temperature in a strain with a recA441(Ts) allele, whereas qnrB expression increased in response to ciprofloxacin or mitomyci...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang M,Jacoby GA,Mills DM,Hooper DC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus is intrinsically resistant to many antimycobacterial antibiotics, which presents serious problems in therapy. Here, we describe the development of a novel phenotype-based microscopic and computerized imaging drug screening approach. A pilot screen of 568 compounds from two libraries identified ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Richter A,Strauch A,Chao J,Ko M,Av-Gay Y

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium simiae is a rare species of slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). From 2002 to 2017, we conducted a retrospective study that included all patients with NTM-positive respiratory samples detected in two university hospitals of the French overseas department of Reunion Island. We recorded the prev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coolen-Allou N,Touron T,Belmonte O,Gazaille V,Andre M,Allyn J,Picot S,Payet A,Veziris N

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on the effectiveness of ceftazidime-avibactam (CAZ-AVI) in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients are limited. The present retrospective observational cohort study, which was conducted in two general intensive care units (ICUs) in central Greece, compared critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsolaki V,Mantzarlis K,Mpakalis A,Malli E,Tsimpoukas F,Tsirogianni A,Papagiannitsis C,Zygoulis P,Papadonta ME,Petinaki E,Makris D,Zakynthinos E

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00