Examination of major disagreements in susceptibility test results by Autobac-1 and MS-2.

abstract：:Different mechanisms of erythromycin resistance predominate in group C and G streptococcus (GCS and GGS, respectively) isolates collected from 1992 to 1995 in Finland. Of the 21 erythromycin-resistant GCS and 32 erythromycin-resistant GGS isolates, 95% had the mefA or mefE drug efflux gene and 94% had the ermTR methyl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kataja J,Seppälä H,Skurnik M,Sarkkinen H,Huovinen P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of combinations of antimicrobials that together achieve synergistic activities against targeted microorganisms is one potential strategy for overcoming bacterial resistance. As the incidence of infections caused by multidrug-resistant staphylococci and enterococci increases, the importance of devising additional s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Allen GP,Cha R,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the first detection of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli in Alaska and in wildlife in the United States. Wild bird (gull) feces sampled at three locations in Southcentral Alaska yielded isolates that harbored plasmid-encoded blaKPC-2 or chromosomally encoded blaOXA-48 and genes associated with a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ahlstrom CA,Ramey AM,Woksepp H,Bonnedahl J

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:R1033 is a plasmid of compatibility group P (= P1) transferred from a wild strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It confers resistance to gentamicin by gentamicin acetyl-transferase 1 and to kanamycin and neomycin by neomycin phosphotransferase 1. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smith DI,Lus RG,Rubio Calvo MC,Datta N,Jacob AE,Hedges RW

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 100 and 97% of Haemophilus influenzae type b strains from major infections were susceptible, respectively, to levels of rifampin and sulfisoxazole attainable in saliva. It is theoretically feasible to eliminate Haemophilus influenzae from the nasopharynx with these drugs. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bannatyne RM,Cheung R

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-seven patients were treated with moxalactam in a noncomparative trial of hospitalized patients; 32 had endometritis or chorioamnionitis, 12 had skin and soft tissue infections, 5 had osteomyelitis, 5 had pneumonia, 5 had urinary tract infections, 4 had arthritis, 2 had sepsis from an unknown source, 1 had endoca...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marier RL,Faro S,Sanders CV,Williams W,Derks F,Janney A,Aldridge K

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to identify the plasmid-encoded factors contributing to the emergence and spread of epidemic IncI1-Iγ plasmids obtained from Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica isolates from animal and human reservoirs. For this, 251 IncI1-Iγ plasmids carrying various extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smith H,Bossers A,Harders F,Wu G,Woodford N,Schwarz S,Guerra B,Rodríguez I,van Essen-Zandbergen A,Brouwer M,Mevius D

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Capnocytophaga sputigena isolate NOR, responsible for septicemia, was resistant to amoxicillin and narrow-spectrum cephalosporins. In a cloning experiment, a new gene, bla(CSP-1), was identified; this gene encodes a novel extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) that shares only 52% and 49% identities with the CME-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Guillon H,Eb F,Mammeri H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viridans group streptococci (VGS) are part of the normal flora that may cause bacteremia, often leading to endocarditis. We evaluated daptomycin against four clinical strains of VGS (MICs = 1 or 2 μg/ml) using an in vitro-simulated endocardial vegetation model, a simulated bacteremia model, and kill curves. Daptomycin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Akins RL,Katz BD,Monahan C,Alexander D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antibiotics have disulfiram-like effects; we evaluated disulfiram for its antibiotic-like effects. Disulfiram inhibited the in vitro growth of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, with an MIC of 1.33 micrograms/ml, but was not effective against members of the family Enterobacteriaceae or Pseudomonas sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Phillips M,Malloy G,Nedunchezian D,Lukrec A,Howard RG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to assess whether amphotericin B (AmB)-Myrj 59, AmB-polyoxyethyleneglycol 24 cholesterol (PC), and AmB-Synperonic A50 (SA50) were less nephrotoxic than AmB-deoxycholate (DC). Rats were treated with the different AmB formulations (10 mg/kg of body weight) intraperitoneally or with the s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tasset C,Preat V,Bernard A,Roland M

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of extracellular DNA in the maintenance of biofilms formed by gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria was studied. This study evaluated all the bacterial strains that were tested for the presence of extracellular DNA with an average size of 30 kb in the matrix. Our results indicate changes in community bioma...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tetz GV,Artemenko NK,Tetz VV

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide antibiotics like erythromycin can prevent the formation of the 50S ribosomal subunit in growing bacterial cells, in addition to their inhibitory effect on translation. The significance of this novel finding has been further investigated. The 50% inhibitory doses of erythromycin for the inhibition of translat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Champney WS,Burdine R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike mammalian cells, malarial parasites are completely dependent on the de novo pyrimidine pathway and lack the enzymes to salvage preformed pyrimidines. In the present study, first, it is shown that 1843U89, even without polyglutamylation, is a potent folate-based inhibitor of purified malarial parasite thymidylat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jiang L,Lee PC,White J,Rathod PK

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monophenol monooxygenase (monophenol, dihydroxyphenylalanine:oxygen oxidoreductase EC 1.14.18.1) was studied in melanin-positive and melanin-negative mutants of Streptomyces lincolnensis NCIB 9413, varying in the lincomycin synthesizing ability. The activities of laccase and tyrosine phenol lyase (EC 4.1.99.2) are abs...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Michalik J,Emilianowicz-Czerska W,Switalski L,Raczyńska-Bojanowska K

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We adopted an in vitro infective endocarditis model (IVIEM) to compare the efficacy of vancomycin (VAN), arbekacin (ABK), and gentamicin (GEN) alone or in combination. Using two strains of clinically isolated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, one GEN susceptible (GS171) and one GEN resistant (GR153), fibrin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee DG,Chun HS,Yim DS,Choi SM,Choi JH,Yoo JH,Shin WS,Kang MW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As opposed to Enterococcus faecalis, which is intrinsically resistant to lincosamides, streptogramins A, and pleuromutilins (LSAP phenotype) by production of the ABC protein Lsa(A), Enterococcus faecium is naturally susceptible. Since this phenotype may be selected for in vivo by quinupristin-dalfopristin (Q-D), the a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Isnard C,Malbruny B,Leclercq R,Cattoir V

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbapenem-hydrolyzing class D β-lactamase OXA-253 was identified in an Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolate belonging to sequence type 113 (ST113) in Brazil. OXA-253 shares 93.8% amino acid identity with OXA-143. The blaOXA-253 gene is located on a ca. 20-kb plasmid. The genetic environment of the blaOXA-253 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Girlich D,Damaceno QS,Oliveira AC,Nordmann P

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing mobile colistin resistance, mediated by the mcr gene family, in Enterobacteriaceae has become a global concern. Among the 10 reported mcr genes, mcr-8 was first identified in Klebsiella pneumoniae, which could cause severe infections with high mortality. Information about the prevalence and genetic context ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wu B,Wang Y,Ling Z,Yu Z,Shen Z,Zhang S,Wang X

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The available treatments for leishmaniasis are less than optimal due to inadequate efficacy, toxic side effects, and the emergence of resistant strains, clearly endorsing the urgent need for discovery and development of novel drug candidates. Ideally, these should act via an alternative mechanism of action to avoid cr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sebastián-Pérez V,Hendrickx S,Munday JC,Kalejaiye T,Martínez A,Campillo NE,de Koning H,Caljon G,Maes L,Gil C

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:9-R-[2-(Phosphonomethoxy)propyl]-adenine (tenofovir) is an acyclic nucleoside phosphonate with antiviral activity against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV). Tenofovir is not orally bioavailable but becomes orally active against HIV-1 infection as the disoproxil ester (tenofovir di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Painter GR,Almond MR,Trost LC,Lampert BM,Neyts J,De Clercq E,Korba BE,Aldern KA,Beadle JR,Hostetler KY

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of a single 1-g intravenous dose of mezlocillin were examined in six functionally anephric patients undergoing hemodialysis. Hemodialysis clearance calculated by plasma extraction ratios across the dialyzer membrane and by dialysis fluid agree well, averaging 26 and 32 ml/min. Dialyzer extraction ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Janicke DM,Mangione A,Schultz RW,Jusko WJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various fluoroquinolones (norfloxacin, enoxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, and sparfloxacin) induce DnaK and GroEL heat shock proteins in Escherichia coli. The induction is transient, consistent with the kinetics of cellular DNA relaxation. The concentrations of fluoroquinolones required for induction are similar to th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mizushima T,Matsuo M,Sekimizu K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is concern about the rise of antifungal drug resistance, but little is known about comparative biological properties and pathogenicity of drug-resistant strains. We generated fluconazole (FLC; CO23 RFLC)- or micafungin (FK; CO23 RFK)-resistant strains of Candida albicans by treating a FLC- and FK-susceptible str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Angiolella L,Stringaro AR,De Bernardis F,Posteraro B,Bonito M,Toccacieli L,Torosantucci A,Colone M,Sanguinetti M,Cassone A,Palamara AT

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem resistance rates in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in Colombia, as in many South American countries, are high for reasons that remain unclear. From our nationwide network, we describe the first detection of the metallo-beta-lactamase VIM-2 in clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from multiple cities within C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Villegas MV,Lolans K,del Rosario Olivera M,Suarez CJ,Correa A,Queenan AM,Quinn JP,Colombian Nosocomial Resistance Study Group.

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telithromycin MICs for 13,874 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected in the first 3 years of the global PROTEKT study (1999 to 2003) were studied. There was no change in the distribution of telithromycin MICs over this period, even in countries where telithromycin is in use. The telithromycin MICs for 10 isolates...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Farrell DJ,Felmingham D

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytochrome P-450-deficient mutant of Candida albicans, strain D10, was employed to study the mode of action of imidazole antifungal agents. This mutant accumulates exclusively 14-alpha-methylsterols, resulting in a sterol profile which mimics that of azole-treated wild-type strains. Since the widely accepted primary...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lees ND,Broughton MC,Sanglard D,Bard M

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current therapy for toxoplasmosis with a synergistic combination of pyrimethamine plus sulfadiazine or pyrimethamine plus clindamycin is not always efficacious and is frequently discontinued due to intolerable toxic effects in immunocompromised individuals, particularly those with AIDS. Trovafloxacin, a new fluoroquin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khan AA,Slifer T,Araujo FG,Polzer RJ,Remington JS

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term therapeutic and toxic effects of 9-[2-(phosphonomethoxy)propyl]adenine (PMPA) were evaluated in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected newborn rhesus macaques. Four untreated SIV-infected newborn macaques developed persistently high levels of viremia, and three of the four animals had rapidly fatal...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Rompay KK,Cherrington JM,Marthas ML,Berardi CJ,Mulato AS,Spinner A,Tarara RP,Canfield DR,Telm S,Bischofberger N,Pedersen NC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacologic parameters and toxicity of netilmicin (6 mg/kg/day) given once daily (qd) or thrice daily (tid) for the treatment of urinary tract infections were studied in a randomized prospective study of 60 cancer patients. The overall efficacy was 96%. Nephrotoxicity, assessed by the measure of urinary excretio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van der Auwera P,Meunier F,Ibrahim S,Kaufman L,Derde MP,Tulkens PM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00