Serum aminoglycoside assay by enzyme-mediated immunoassay (EMIT): correlation with radioimmunoassay, microbiological assays.

abstract：:One hundred clinical isolates resistant to ceftazidime and/or cefotaxime were examined for susceptibility to cefepime. The most frequently encountered ceftazidime-cefotaxime-resistant strains belonged to the genera Enterobacter, Pseudomonas, and Citrobacter. Among these strains, 92% were resistant to cefoperazone, 91%...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fung-Tomc J,Dougherty TJ,DeOrio FJ,Simich-Jacobson V,Kessler RE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No effective approved drug therapy exists for Cryptosporidium infection of immunocompromised patients. Here we investigated the nonabsorbed anthelmintic drug pyrvinium pamoate for inhibition of the growth of the intestinal protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum. The concentration of pyrvinium that effected 50% grow...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Downey AS,Chong CR,Graczyk TK,Sullivan DJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic penetration to the infection site is critical for obtaining a good clinical outcome in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Surprisingly few studies have quantified the penetration of β-lactam agents into the lung, as measured by the ratio of area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) in ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lodise TP,Sorgel F,Melnick D,Mason B,Kinzig M,Drusano GL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 113 patients were randomly allocated to receive either ticarcillin plus clavulanic acid (total dose, 20.8 g) or clindamycin (total dose, 2.4 g) plus amikacin (total dose, 1 g) as perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis for major head and neck surgery. The two groups were similar in age, prior antineoplastic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gerard M,Meunier F,Dor P,Andry G,Chantrain G,Van der Auwera P,Daneau D,Klastersky J

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of four antifungal agents against 15 systemic (blood and vascular catheter) and 10 superficial (skin) Malassezia furfur isolates was evaluated. MIC ranges were similar for the two groups of organisms: amphotericin B, 0.3 to 2.5 micrograms/ml; flucytosine, greater than 100 micrograms/ml; miconazole, 0.4 to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marcon MJ,Durrell DE,Powell DA,Buesching WJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannopeptimycins alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon are new cyclic glycopeptide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus LL-AC98. Mannopeptimycins gamma, delta, and epsilon, which have an isovaleryl substitution at various positions on the terminal mannose of the disaccharide moiety, demonstrated moderat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singh MP,Petersen PJ,Weiss WJ,Janso JE,Luckman SW,Lenoy EB,Bradford PA,Testa RT,Greenstein M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of patients with AIDS and toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE) sustain low plasma pyrimethamine concentrations during oral treatment, possibly because of incomplete and variable bioavailability. We wanted to develop a safe, practicable intravenous (i.v.) formulation of pyrimethamine and characterize its disposit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Almond DS,Szwandt IS,Edwards G,Lee MG,Winstanley PA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a severe disease caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis Current chemotherapeutic treatment options based on benzimidazoles are of limited effectiveness, which underlines the need to find new antiechinococcosis drugs. Metformin is an antihyperglycemic and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Loos JA,Dávila VA,Brehm K,Cumino AC

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis is the etiologic agent of the plague. Reports of Y. pestis strains that are resistant to each of the currently approved first-line and prophylactic treatments point to the urgent need to develop novel antibiotics with activity against the pathogen. We previously reported that Y. pestis strain KIM6+, un...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Steed DB,Liu J,Wasbrough E,Miller L,Halasohoris S,Miller J,Somerville B,Hershfield JR,Romesberg FE

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii are the most prevalent nonfermentative bacterial species isolated from clinical specimens of hospitalized patients. A surveillance study of 65 laboratories in the United States from 1998 to 2001 found >90% of isolates of P. aeruginosa from hospitalized patients to be ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Karlowsky JA,Draghi DC,Jones ME,Thornsberry C,Friedland IR,Sahm DF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the genetic organization of three novel genomic antibiotic resistance islands (AbaRs) in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates belonging to group of European clone II (EC II) comM integrated sequences of 18-, 21-, and 23-kb resistance islands were determined. These resistance islands carry the backbone of Ab...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seputiene V,Povilonis J,Suziedeliene E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atazanavir (Reyataz; ATV) is a well-tolerated protease inhibitor (PI) that is indicated as a once-daily treatment for HIV infections. These features of ATV, combined with its virologic potency, make it particularly desirable for the treatment of HIV-infected pediatric patients. The objective of this study was to use a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hong Y,Kowalski KG,Zhang J,Zhu L,Horga M,Bertz R,Pfister M,Roy A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial protein synthesis is the target for numerous natural and synthetic antibacterial agents. We have developed a poly(U) mRNA-directed aminoacylation/translation protein synthesis system composed of phenyl-tRNA synthetases, ribosomes, and ribosomal factors from Escherichia coli. This system, utilizing purified c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ribble W,Hill WE,Ochsner UA,Jarvis TC,Guiles JW,Janjic N,Bullard JM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of ceftriaxone alone and in combination with gentamicin, tobramycin, and amikacin against 50 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains was studied by the broth dilution method and the time-kill curve method. The majority of the P. aeruginosa strains tested were resistant to ceftriaxone. Combining ceftriaxon...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Watanakunakorn C

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the marketing of a series of new antibiotics for antibiotic-resistant gram-positive bacteria, no new agents for multiple-antibiotic-resistant gram-negative infections will be available for quite some time. Clinicians will need to find more effective ways to utilize available agents. Colistin is an older but no...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gunderson BW,Ibrahim KH,Hovde LB,Fromm TL,Reed MD,Rotschafer JC

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties of a population of carbenicillin- and gentamicin-resistant, tobramycin-susceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa at Veteran's Administration Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, have been followed during a 16-month period. As originally described, the strains were isolated from patients with urinary tract colonizations and...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Korfhagen TR,Ferrel JA,Menefee CL,Loper JC

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disk bioassay for determining clindamycin serum levels is presented. This method is rapid (results available in 6.0 to 6.5 h), reliable, and simple to perform. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liberman DF,Fitzgerald J,Robertson RG

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the evolution of drug target genes under changing drug policy is needed to assist monitoring of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance in the field. Here we genotype Pfcrt and Pfdmr1 of 700 isolates collected in French Guiana from 2000 (5 years after withdrawal of chloroquine) to 2008, i.e., the period when...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Legrand E,Yrinesi J,Ekala MT,Péneau J,Volney B,Berger F,Bouchier C,Bertani S,Musset L,Meynard JB,Mercereau-Puijalon O

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new SHV-derived extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (SHV-24) conferring high-level resistance to ceftazidime but not cefotaxime and cefazolin was identified in Japan. This enzyme was encoded by a transferable 150-kb plasmid from an Escherichia coli clinical isolate. The pI and K(m) for CAZ of this enzyme were 7.5 and 3...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kurokawa H,Yagi T,Shibata N,Shibayama K,Kamachi K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria (CP-GNB) have increasingly spread worldwide, and different families of carbapenemases have been identified in various bacterial species. Here, we report the identification of five VIM metallo-β-lactamase-producing Alcaligenes faecalis isolates associated with a small outb...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Al Laham N,Chavda KD,Cienfuegos-Gallet AV,Kreiswirth BN,Chen L

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 40 million women of reproductive age are infected with one of three species of the waterborne parasite Schistosoma spp. Treatment with praziquantel (PZQ) via mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns is the mainstay of schistosomiasis control for populations living in areas of endemicity. The World Health ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bustinduy AL,Kolamunnage-Dona R,Mirochnick MH,Capparelli EV,Tallo V,Acosta LP,Olveda RM,Friedman JF,Hope WW

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosome-encoded class C β-lactamase CHE-1 produced by Enterobacter cloacae exhibits a lower sensitivity to avibactam than the P99 enzyme from which it is derived by a 6-residue deletion in the H-10 helix. In the present study, we investigated the sensitivity of CHE-1 to two other β-lactamase inhibitors: LK-157 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fernea A,Galleni M,Frère JM

更新日期：2016-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin-resistant (BLNAR) isolates of Haemophilus influenzae have been emerging in some countries, including Japan. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute has only a susceptible MIC breakpoint (< or = 1 microg/ml) for piperacillin-tazobactam and a disclaimer comment that BLNAR H. in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hirakata Y,Ohmori K,Mikuriya M,Saika T,Matsuzaki K,Hasegawa M,Hatta M,Yamamoto N,Kunishima H,Yano H,Kitagawa M,Arai K,Kawakami K,Kobayashi I,Jones RN,Kohno S,Yamaguchi K,Kaku M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pokeweed antiviral protein at a concentration of 3 microM inhibited both the synthesis and release of infectious herpes simplex virus type 1 in cell culture by 90 and 99%, respectively. Addition of pokeweed antiviral protein to Vero cell monolayers before virus infection was 10 to 15% more effective in reducing virus ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Teltow GJ,Irvin JD,Aron GM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population pharmacokinetics of tafenoquine were studied in Australian soldiers taking tafenoquine for malarial prophylaxis. The subjects (476 males and 14 females) received a loading dose of 200 mg tafenoquine base daily for 3 days, followed by a weekly dose of 200 mg tafenoquine for 6 months. Blood samples were c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Charles BG,Miller AK,Nasveld PE,Reid MG,Harris IE,Edstein MD

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MR M. pneumoniae) has been isolated from clinical specimens in Japan since 2000. A comparative study was carried out to determine whether or not macrolides are effective in treating patients infected with MR M. pneumoniae. The clinical courses of 11 patients with MR M. pneumo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Suzuki S,Yamazaki T,Narita M,Okazaki N,Suzuki I,Andoh T,Matsuoka M,Kenri T,Arakawa Y,Sasaki T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piperaquine (PQ) is an antimalarial drug whose high lipid solubility suggests that its absorption can be increased by a high-fat meal. We examined the pharmacokinetics of PQ phosphate (500 mg given orally) in the fasting state and after a high-fat meal in eight healthy Caucasian volunteers (randomized crossover). Plas...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sim IK,Davis TM,Ilett KF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment of giardias to intestinal cells has been difficult to study because of a lack of a convenient in vitro model. We developed an assay for attachment of radiolabeled trophozoites to IEC-6 cells that can be done in microtiter trays. Attachment was confirmed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Trop...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCabe RE,Yu GS,Conteas C,Morrill PR,McMorrow B

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the bla1 and bla2 genes in an archetypal Bacillus anthracis strain is insufficient for penicillin resistance. In a penicillin-resistant clinical isolate, both genes are highly transcribed, but bla1 is the major contributor to high-level resistance to ampicillin. Differential expression of the bla genes i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen Y,Tenover FC,Koehler TM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-impregnated beads are used in the dead bone space following debridement surgery to deliver local, high concentrations of antibiotics. Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), 2,000-molecular-weight (MW) polylactic acid (PLA), Poly(DL-lactide)-coglycolide (PL:CG; 90:10, 80:20, and 70:30), and the combination 2,000-MW ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mader JT,Calhoun J,Cobos J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00