Potent cephalosporinase inhibitors: 7 beta-[2-(1, 3-dithiolan-2-ylidene) acetamido] cephalosporins and related compounds.

abstract：:Argyrins are natural products with antibacterial activity against Gram-negative pathogens, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia multivorans, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia We previously showed that argyrin B targets elongation factor G (FusA). Here, we show that argyrin B activity against P. aeruginosa PAO1 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones AK,Woods AL,Takeoka KT,Shen X,Wei JR,Caughlan RE,Dean CR

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Lactamase production was investigated in cultures of 25 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates isolated at a hospital in Durban, South Africa, in 1994 and 1996. Twenty of these isolates gave ceftazidime MIC/ceftazidime plus clavulanate MIC ratios of >/=8, implying production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Essack SY,Hall LM,Pillay DG,McFadyen ML,Livermore DM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most widely used drug for treatment of candidiasis is fluconazole (FCZ). Recently, a new derivative of 1,4-benzothiazine, compound FS5, was developed. FS5 had an appreciable protective effect against murine candidiasis. The present study was designed to dissect the antifungal mechanisms triggered by FS5 and to est...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pitzurra L,Fringuelli R,Perito S,Schiaffella F,Barluzzi R,Bistoni F,Vecchiarelli A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethambutol at 3.0 micrograms/ml inhibited the transfer of label from D-[14C]glucose into the D-arabinose residue of arabinogalactan in whole cells of a drug-susceptible strain of Mycobacterium smegmatis. This inhibition began almost immediately after exposure of the cells to the drug. When drug-resistant M. smegmatis ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takayama K,Kilburn JO

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is inherently resistant to a variety of antibiotics including aminoglycosides, macrolides, polymyxins, and beta-lactam antibiotics. Despite resistance to many beta-lactams, ceftazidime and beta-lactamase inhibitor-beta-lactam combinations are commonly used...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tribuddharat C,Moore RA,Baker P,Woods DE

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue fever is a severe, widespread, and neglected disease with more than 2 million diagnosed infections per year. The dengue virus NS2B/NS3 protease (PR) represents a prime target for rational drug design. At the moment, there are no clinical PR inhibitors (PIs) available. We have identified diaryl (thio)ethers as c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wu H,Bock S,Snitko M,Berger T,Weidner T,Holloway S,Kanitz M,Diederich WE,Steuber H,Walter C,Hofmann D,Weißbrich B,Spannaus R,Acosta EG,Bartenschlager R,Engels B,Schirmeister T,Bodem J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mupirocin is a topical antimicrobial used to decolonize patients who carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and the topical agent retapamulin may be a potential alternative therapy. The goal of this study was to determine the in vitro activity of retapamulin as well as a panel of 15 antimicrobial ag...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Harrington AT,Black JA,Clarridge JE 3rd

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the efficacy of pentamidine (PNT) as prophylaxis or early treatment in acute pulmonary fusariosis in neutropenic mice. PNT-preexposed mice had significantly improved survival and reduced fungal burden compared to amphotericin B-preexposed and untreated mice. PNT-treated mice had increased survival but no di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lionakis MS,Chamilos G,Lewis RE,Wiederhold NP,Raad II,Samonis G,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current procedures for obtaining and measuring plasma concentrations of HIV protease inhibitors (PIs) are technically challenging. Dried blood spot (DBS) assays offer a way to overcome many of the obstacles. We sought to develop a DBS assay for quantitation of the PI atazanavir (ATV) and to compare this method with a ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Schooneveld T,Swindells S,Nelson SR,Robbins BL,Moore R,Fletcher CV

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MICs of daptomycin, linezolid, and vancomycin against 212 isolates, including Listeria monocytogenes and Pediococcus, Leuconostoc, Rhodococcus, and Nocardia spp., were determined by the broth microdilution method; daptomycin MICs were also determined by the Etest. Except with those for Leuconostoc spp., daptomycin Ete...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Huang YT,Liao CH,Teng LJ,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with lamivudine ([-]-beta-L-2',3'-dideoxy-3' thiacytidine) or famciclovir may select for viral mutants that are drug resistant due to point mutations in the polymerase gene. Determining whether such HBV mutants are sensitive to new antiviral agents is th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chin R,Shaw T,Torresi J,Sozzi V,Trautwein C,Bock T,Manns M,Isom H,Furman P,Locarnini S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the diffusion of pefloxacin into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in 15 patients with bacterial meningitis or ventriculitis, 14 of whom were treated with other antibiotics. Three doses of pefloxacin were administered at 12-h intervals to 11 patients intravenously and to 4 patients orally. Individual doses we...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wolff M,Regnier B,Daldoss C,Nkam M,Vachon F

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gatifloxacin pneumococcal, staphylococcal and enterococcal postantibiotic effects (PAEs) were 0.5 to 4.0 h, respectively. For Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, PAEs were 2.2 to 4.8 h. Pneumococcal, staphylococcal, and enterococcal postantibiotic sub-MIC effects (PA-SMEs) (four times the MICs) were 3.7 to 8....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pankuch GA,Jacobs MR,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to fluoroquinolones is caused predominantly by amino acid substitutions at positions Ser79 of ParC and Ser81 of GyrA to either Phe or Tyr encoded in the quinolone resistance-determining regions of the parC topoisomerase IV and gyrA DNA gyrase genes. Analysis of highly resistant c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Korzheva N,Davies TA,Goldschmidt R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 20 nucleoside analogs were examined for their inhibitory effects on the cytopathogenicity and growth of influenza virus type A, B, and C strains in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Among the compounds evaluated, pyrazofurin, 3-deazaguanine, ribavirin, carbodine, and cyclopentenyl cytosine inhibited vir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shigeta S,Konno K,Yokota T,Nakamura K,De Clercq E

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:We conducted a randomized controlled trial of orally administered amifloxacin versus trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) as treatments of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women. Amifloxacin at a dosage of 200 mg twice a day appeared as safe and effective as TMP-SMX, but amifloxacin at 400 mg twice a d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyko EJ,Iravani A,Silverman MH,Schelling DJ,Wright RA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated and compared the efficacies of different antifungal drugs against Sarocladium kiliense (formerly Acremonium kiliense), a clinically relevant opportunistic fungus, in a murine model of systemic infection. Three clinical strains of this fungus were tested, and the therapy administered was as follows: posaco...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fernández-Silva F,Capilla J,Mayayo E,Sutton DA,Hernández P,Guarro J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans to 14 antimicrobial combinations were studied by using the checkerboard titration technique. The results, expressed as the range of the fractional inhibitory concentration indices, were as follows: for metronidazole or its hydroxymetabolite combined...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pavicić MJ,van Winkelhoff AJ,de Graaff J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pefloxacin has been shown to have good intraocular penetration when given systemically. In order to extend its clinical use, we have assessed the tolerability, kinetics, and efficacy of subconjunctival pefloxacin in phakic pigmented rabbits. The tolerability of a single subconjunctival injection of pefloxacin (0.8, 1....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marrakchi-Benjaafar S,Cochereau I,D'Hermies F,Pocidalo JJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine the temporal changes in tobramycin nephrotoxicity during the dark and the light periods of the day and to look for the mechanisms of such changes. Female Sprague-Dawley rats (9 to 11 weeks old) were housed in a 14-h-light-10-h-dark cycle (lights on 0600 to 2000 h). A bolus o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lin L,Grenier L,Bergeron Y,Simard M,Bergeron MG,Labrecque G,Beauchamp D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the site of insertion of the aadB gene cassette on pRAY, from a clinical isolate of Acinetobacter, is almost identical to the preferred site on integrons, the composite 59-base element (59-BE) associated with this cassette is potentially recombinationally active. By using a conduction assay to quantitate site activ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Segal H,Francia MV,Lobo JM,Elisha G

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-onset (CO) candidemia, defined as a positive blood culture taken at or within 2 days of hospital admission, represents a distinct clinical entity associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Reference MIC results from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (2008-2009) were analyzed to compare ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pfaller MA,Moet GJ,Messer SA,Jones RN,Castanheira M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of tebipenem (TBM), a new oral carbapenem antibiotic, against Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates (n = 202) was compared with those of 15 reference agents. The isolates were classified into five genotypic classes after PCR identification of abnormal pbp1a, pbp2x, and pbp2b genes: (i) penic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kobayashi R,Konomi M,Hasegawa K,Morozumi M,Sunakawa K,Ubukata K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the combined activity of vancomycin and seven beta-lactam antibiotics against Staphylococcus aureus clinical strain Mu3, which displays heterogeneous resistance to vancomycin. When combined with vancomycin, four of the seven tested beta-lactams exhibited an additive effect at or near their MICs, while all sh...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aritaka N,Hanaki H,Cui L,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and protein binding of ceforanide were studied in 15 patients undergoing cholecystectomies. Each patient received ceforanide (20 mg/kg) intravenously on arrival in the operating room, after which serial blood samples were collected during the elimination phase for determination of total and free c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： DiPiro JT,Bayoumi SM,Vallner JJ,Nesbit RR,Gokhale R,Rissing JP

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) causes serious opportunistic infections in AIDS patients. Previous studies with MAC-infected beige mice have indicated that weekly administration of liposome-encapsulated streptomycin can reduce significantly the CFU in the liver and spleen. We examined whether streptomycin encapsulat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gangadharam PR,Ashtekar DR,Flasher DL,Düzgüneş N

更新日期：1995-03-01 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