Penetration of pefloxacin into cerebrospinal fluid of patients with meningitis.

abstract：:The small-colony-variant (SCV) phenotype of Staphylococcus aureus has been associated with difficult-to-treat infections, reduced antimicrobial susceptibility, and intracellular persistence. This study represents a detailed intra- and extracellular investigation of a clinical wild-type (WT) S. aureus strain and its co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sandberg A,Lemaire S,Van Bambeke F,Tulkens PM,Hughes D,von Eiff C,Frimodt-Møller N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the population pharmacokinetics of high-dose continuous-infusion (HDCI) meropenem in a cohort of patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) infections. Monte Carlo simulations were used to define the permissible HDCI meropenem regimens that could be saf...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cojutti P,Sartor A,Righi E,Scarparo C,Bassetti M,Pea F

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An international interlaboratory quality control program for measurement of antiretroviral drugs was initiated. The first round was confined to protease inhibitors and showed large variability in the performance of participating laboratories. The results demonstrate the need for and utility of an ongoing quality contr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aarnoutse RE,Verweij-van Wissen CP,van Ewijk-Beneken Kolmer EW,Wuis EW,Koopmans PP,Hekster YA,Burger DM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and distribution in tissue of several novel triazole antifungal agents were studied in different animal species in order to select an appropriate lead compound. The purpose of the study was also to determine species differences in pharmacokinetics for SYN azoles to select the most appropriate spec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khan JK,Montaseri H,Poglod M,Bu HZ,Zuo Z,Salama SM,Daneshtalab M,Micetich RG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacteroides fragilis bacteriocin which inhibits ribonucleic acid (RNA) polymerase activity had a narrow activity spectrum in vivo and only inhibited the growth of certain B. fragilis strains. In vitro the bacteriocin was not specific and inhibited RNA polymerases from widely diverse bacterial genera. RNA polymeras...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mossie KG,Robb FT,Jones DT,Woods DR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-year follow-up results for a randomized placebo-controlled study of 47 patients with multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treated with either the new diarylquinoline TMC207, recently renamed bedaquiline, or placebo, added to the first 8 weeks of a background regimen, are presented. Bedaquiline significantl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Diacon AH,Donald PR,Pym A,Grobusch M,Patientia RF,Mahanyele R,Bantubani N,Narasimooloo R,De Marez T,van Heeswijk R,Lounis N,Meyvisch P,Andries K,McNeeley DF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the variability of the voriconazole plasma level and its relationships with clinical outcomes and adverse events among liver transplant recipients to optimize the efficacy and safety of their treatment. Liver transplant recipients treated with voriconazole were included, and vo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hashemizadeh Z,Badiee P,Malekhoseini SA,Raeisi Shahraki H,Geramizadeh B,Montaseri H

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous Escherichia coli mutant, named Q3, resistant to nalidixic acid was obtained from a previously described clinical isolate of E. coli, Q2, resistant to fluoroquinolones but susceptible to nalidixic acid (E. Cambau, F. Bordon, E. Collatz, and L. Gutmann, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 37:1247-1252, 1993). Q3...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Truong QC,Nguyen Van JC,Shlaes D,Gutmann L,Moreau NJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multivariate techniques such as principal component analysis or similar factor analysis help in analyses of the simultaneous interrelationships among several variables. A comparative multivariate analysis on the in vitro activities of eight antimicrobial agents, including the novel molecule daptomycin, is presented. M...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hernández JM,Conforti P

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of atovaquone alone or combined with pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine, clarithromycin, and minocycline was examined in vitro and in a murine model of acute toxoplasmosis. In vitro studies were performed with MRC5 fibroblast tissue cultures, with quantification of Toxoplasma growth by an enzyme-linked immunosor...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Romand S,Pudney M,Derouin F

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of cefotaxime, either alone or combined with an aminoglycoside, was determined against 50 isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, of which 50, 33, and 10 were resistant to gentamicin, tobramycin, and amikacin, respectively. Cefotaxime inhibited 34 isolates at a concentration of 16 microgram/ml and all isolate...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Murray PR

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrase inhibitor raltegravir (RAL) is currently used for the treatment of both treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced HIV-1-infected patients. Elvitegravir (EVG) is in late phases of clinical development. Since significant cross-resistance between RAL and EVG is observed, there is a need for second-generatio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Wesenbeeck L,Rondelez E,Feyaerts M,Verheyen A,Van der Borght K,Smits V,Cleybergh C,De Wolf H,Van Baelen K,Stuyver LJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest species of malaria parasites, is dependent on glycolysis for the generation of ATP during the pathogenic red blood cell stage. Hexokinase (HK) catalyzes the first step in glycolysis, transferring the γ-phosphoryl group of ATP to glucose to yield glucose-6-phosphate. Here, we descri...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Davis MI,Patrick SL,Blanding WM,Dwivedi V,Suryadi J,Golden JE,Coussens NP,Lee OW,Shen M,Boxer MB,Hall MD,Sharlow ER,Drew ME,Morris JC

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Efavirenz-based antiretroviral regimen is preferred during rifampin-containing tuberculosis therapy. However, current pharmacokinetic data are insufficient to guide optimized concurrent dosing. This study aimed to better characterize the effects of rifampin on efavirenz pharmacokinetics. Subjects were randomized to re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kwara A,Tashima KT,Dumond JB,Poethke P,Kurpewski J,Kashuba AD,Court MH,Greenblatt DJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report on the anti-influenza virus activity of the mannose-binding agents, Hippeastrum hybrid agglutinin (HHA) and Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA), and the (N-acetylglucosamine)n-specific Urtica dioica agglutinin (UDA). These carbohydrate-binding agents (CBA) strongly inhibited various influenza A(H1N1), A...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vanderlinden E,Van Winkel N,Naesens L,Van Damme EJM,Persoons L,Schols D

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid cultures of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain in Mueller-Hinton broth diluted at rates higher than the bacterial growth rate showed the expected decrease in CFU only for 1 to 2 h. Later the CFU started to increase. This phenomenon can be explained by a hypothesis that assumes that the bacteria multiply in two dif...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Haag R,Lexa P,Werkhäuser I

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a multidrug-resistant pathogen that poses a significant risk to global health today. We have developed a promising new FtsZ-targeting agent (TXA707) with potent activity against MRSA isolates resistant to current standard-of-care antibiotics. We present here result...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ferrer-González E,Kaul M,Parhi AK,LaVoie EJ,Pilch DS

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1986 and 1988, the incidence of ampicillin-resistant enterococci increased sevenfold at a university-affiliated hospital. Forty-three patients acquired nosocomial infections with ampicillin-resistant enterococci, most of which were also resistant to mezlocillin, piperacillin, and imipenem. An analysis of plasm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyce JM,Opal SM,Potter-Bynoe G,LaForge RG,Zervos MJ,Furtado G,Victor G,Medeiros AA

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 4,226 Spanish clinical isolates of Candida spp. were analyzed to assess resistance to voriconazole according to breakpoints established by the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (where susceptibility [S] to voriconazole corresponds to a MIC of ≤ 0.12 mg/liter). Resistance was uncomm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cuenca-Estrella M,Gomez-Lopez A,Cuesta I,Zaragoza O,Mellado E,Rodriguez-Tudela JL,Antifungal Subcommittee of European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum genes pfcrt and pfmdr1 are selected by amodiaquine treatment in Africa. To examine the importance of these mutations in amodiaquine-treated Asian parasites, we determined pre- and posttreatment genotypes for amodiaquine treatment failures from a clinical trial in Afghanistan. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beshir K,Sutherland CJ,Merinopoulos I,Durrani N,Leslie T,Rowland M,Hallett RL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three structural analogs of 5-ethyl-1-benzyloxymethyl-6-(phenylthio)uracil (E-BPU) inhibited human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication without cytotoxicity in vitro and were more potent than azidothymidine and were as potent as E-BPU. The target of these compounds is HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. Reverse ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Piras G,Dutschman GE,Im GJ,Pan BC,Chu SH,Cheng YC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the exposure-response relationships for efficacy and safety of voriconazole and anidulafungin in adult patients with invasive aspergillosis (IA), a population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) analysis was performed with data from a phase 3, prospective, double-blind, comparative study evaluating vor...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liu P,Mould DR

更新日期：2014-08-01 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 plasma elimination rates of serial 2-g intravenous injections of ceftriaxone were studied in a patient who also was treated with therapeutic plasma exchange pheresis. Plasmapheresis had negligible influence on the total clearance of ceftriaxone. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bakken JS,Cavalieri SJ,Gangeness D

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the susceptibility of the murine gamma herpesvirus 68 (MHV-68) to a variety of antiviral agents. The acyclic nucleoside phosphonate analogs cidofovir [(S)-1-(3-hydroxy-2-phosphonylmethoxypropyl) cytosine], (S)-1-(3-hydroxy-2-phosphonylmethoxypropyl)adenine (HPMPA), and adefovir [9-(2-phosphonylmethox...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neyts J,De Clercq E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Letermovir, GW275175X (a benzimidazole), and tomeglovir (Bay38-4766) are chemically unrelated human cytomegalovirus (CMV) terminase complex inhibitors that have been tested in human subjects. UL56 gene mutations are the dominant pathway of letermovir resistance, while UL89 and UL56 mutations are known to confer benzim...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chou S

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pipemidic acid was absorbed well by the oral route. Its peak levels in plasma ranged from 4 to 12 mug/ml at an oral dose of about 50 mg/kg in mice, rats, dogs, monkeys, and men. The protein binding of pipemidic acid was about 20% in dog plasma and about 30% in human serum. Pipemidic acid was distributed to most of the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shimizu M,Nakamura S,Takase Y,Kurobe N

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitation of antigens translated in vitro from Echinococcus granulosus RNA revealed that albendazole treatment of human hydatidosis induced antibodies to previously undetectable antigens and that the response to most antigens was specific, although cross-reactivity was observed between Schistosoma mansoni an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blanton RE,Okelo GB,Kijobe J,King CH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel antibiotics approved by noninferiority trials may become less effective over time in two scenarios: (i) the treatment effect in studies of novel antibiotics may be consistently worse than studies of older antibiotics; (ii) when a decreasingly effective control arm is used in a series of noninferiority trials. Ou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bai AD,Komorowski AS,Lo CKL,Tandon P,Li XX,Mokashi V,Cvetkovic A,Findlater A,Liang L,Loeb M,Mertz D

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infections with Chlamydia pneumoniae have been implicated in the development of chronic diseases, such as atherosclerosis and asthma. Although azithromycin, clarithromycin, and levofloxacin are frequently used for the treatment of respiratory C. pneumoniae infections, little is known about the dose and dura...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kutlin A,Roblin PM,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00