Tetracyclines of various hydrophobicities as a probe for permeability of Escherichia coli outer membranes.

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibility to linezolid shown by nine Greek isolates of Coxiella burnetii derived from patients with acute Q fever was investigated. MICs of linezolid were compared with those of pefloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, trovafloxacin, doxycycline, and clarithromycin using the shell vial assay. MICs of li...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gikas A,Spyridaki I,Scoulica E,Psaroulaki A,Tselentis Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a common pathogen associated with nosocomial pneumonia and is an increasing threat for severe community-acquired pneumonia. We have now investigated the role of interleukin-12 (IL-12) in protective immunity against lung infection with MRSA. The importance of IL-12 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nguyen QT,Furuya Y,Roberts S,Metzger DW

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute otitis media, a polymicrobial disease of the middle ear cavity of children, is a significant public health problem worldwide. It is most frequently caused by encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae and nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, although the widespread use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines is apparently ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Domenech M,García E

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-seven cultures of Haemophilus influenzae were tested for production of beta-lactamase by use of a modified, 1-min test. Only the 24 cultures that were ampicillin resistant, whether type b or not, yielded positive results for the enzyme; all ampicillin-susceptible isolates were uniformly negative. The beta-lactam...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escamilla J

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Isonicotinic acid hydrazide (isoniazid; INH) inhibition of mycolic acid synthesis was studied by using cell extracts from both INH-sensitive and -resistant strains of Mycobacterium aurum. The cell extract of the INH-sensitive strain was inhibited by INH, while the preparation from the INH-resistant strain was not. Thi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Quémard A,Lacave C,Lanéelle G

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a selected tripeptide, Z-d-Phe-Phe-Arg(NO(2)) (SV-4814) on the kinetics of lysis of green monkey erythrocytes by measles virus hemolysin suggested conditions of competitive inhibition. SV-4814 prevented not only hemoglobin release, but also the preceding leakage of K(+) through the cell membrane. The cap...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Norrby E,Sievertsson H

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous bacterial pathogens, particularly those that colonize fast-flow areas in the bladder and gastrointestinal tract, require motility to establish infection and spread beyond the initially colonized tissue. Vibrio cholerae strains of serogroups O1 and O139, the causative agents of the diarrheal illness cholera, e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rasmussen L,White EL,Pathak A,Ayala JC,Wang H,Wu JH,Benitez JA,Silva AJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inter- and intralaboratory reproducibility of susceptibility testing requires stable control strains. The Food and Drug Administration diffusion procedure recommends the Seattle strains of Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923) and Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) for this purpose. It was of interest to determine the present...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coyle MB,Lampe MF,Aitken CL,Feigl P,Sherris JC

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens have specific virulence factors (e.g., toxins) that contribute significantly to the virulence and infectivity of microorganisms within the human hosts. Virulence factors are molecules expressed by pathogens that enable colonization, immunoevasion, and immunosuppression, obtaining nutrients from the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jekle A,Yoon J,Zuck M,Najafi R,Wang L,Shiau T,Francavilla C,Rani SA,Eitzinger C,Nagl M,Anderson M,Debabov D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:18F-labeled fleroxacin was used to measure the pharmacokinetics of fleroxacin in healthy and infected animals by positron emission tomography (PET) and tissue radioactivity measurements. In all experiments, a pharmacological dose of unlabeled drug (10 mg/kg) was coinjected with the tracer. The pharmacokinetics of [18F...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fischman AJ,Livni E,Babich J,Alpert NM,Liu YY,Thom E,Cleeland R,Prosser BL,Callahan RJ,Correia JA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major clinical challenge for treating infectious diseases is the duration of antimicrobial therapy required to eradicate the pathogen. We hypothesized that modulation of the bacterial replication rate in the context of an antimicrobial exposure is coupled with the rate and extent of bactericidal effects. Herein we d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ambrose PG,VanScoy B,Conde H,McCauley J,Rubino CM,Bhavnani SM

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea and is a major public health concern. Current therapies disrupt the protective intestinal flora, do not reliably prevent recurrent infections, and will be decreasingly effective should less susceptible strains emerge. CRS3123 is an oral agent that inhibits ba...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nayak SU,Griffiss JM,Blumer J,O'Riordan MA,Gray W,McKenzie R,Jurao RA,An AT,Le M,Bell SJ,Ochsner UA,Jarvis TC,Janjic N,Zenilman JM

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:MUC7 12-mer-L exhibits potent in vitro antifungal activity in low-ionic-strength buffers. In this study, we investigated the anticandidal activity and stability of MUC7 12-mer-L and its all-D-amino-acid isomer, along with Hsn5 12-mer (P113) and magainin-II, in human clarified and unclarified saliva in the absence or p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wei GX,Bobek LA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefamandole pharmacokinetics were investigated in 24 adult males with stable renal function and creatinine clearances of 0 to 139 ml/min. After intramuscular injection of 1.0 g of cefamandole, peak plasma concentrations were achieved between 1 and 2 h. Maximum plasma concentration and drug half-life increased as creat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Czerwinski AW,Pederson JA

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-function relationships in antimicrobial peptides have been extensively investigated in order to obtain improved analogs. Most of these studies have targeted either alpha-helical peptides or beta-sheet peptides with multiple disulfide bridges. Tigerinins are short, nonhelical antimicrobial peptides with a sin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sitaram N,Sai KP,Singh S,Sankaran K,Nagaraj R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fosfomycin tromethamine (previously fosfomycin trometamol) is an orally administered fosfomycin which may be used for single-dose therapy of uncomplicated urinary tract infections. Fosfomycin tromethamine, norfloxacin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole inhibited greater than 90% of 352 bacterial isolates representing ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barry AL,Fuchs PC

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suramin is 100 years old and is still being used to treat the first stage of acute human sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma bruceirhodesiense Suramin is a multifunctional molecule with a wide array of potential applications, from parasitic and viral diseases to cancer, snakebite, and autism. Suramin is also an e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wiedemar N,Hauser DA,Mäser P

更新日期：2020-02-21 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：:Antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation (PDI) was shown to be a promising treatment modality for microbial infections. This study explores the effect of chitosan, a polycationic biopolymer, in increasing the PDI efficacy against Gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Strep...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsai T,Chien HF,Wang TH,Huang CT,Ker YB,Chen CT

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrolide-aminoglycoside-streptothricin (MAS) element, an ∼4.2-kb insertion containing erm(B) and aphA3 resistance determinants, distinguishes Streptococcus pneumoniae transposon Tn1545/Tn6003 from Tn6002. Here, it is shown to be an unstable genetic element that, although it lacks recombinase genes, can exploit lo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Palmieri C,Mingoia M,Massidda O,Giovanetti E,Varaldo PE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7.7-kilobase BamHI fragment was cloned from the transconjugant of a clinical isolate of Escherichia coli containing a 120-kilobase multiresistance IncC plasmid. The recombinant plasmid conferred resistance to kanamycin, gentamicin, tobramycin, sulfamethoxazole, and trimethoprim. This clone was used to generate a ser...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Groot Obbink DJ,Ritchie LJ,Cameron FH,Mattick JS,Ackerman VP

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of protein binding on drug penetration into blister fluid was evaluated by using cefonicid, ceftizoxime, and cefotaxime. Drug concentrations in a chamber with a high surface area/volume ratio (i.e., paper disk) follow changes in serum more closely than do those in a chamber with a low surface area/volume ra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shyu WC,Quintiliani R,Nightingale CH,Dudley MN

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic candidiasis is a leading cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection with a high mortality rate despite treatment. Immune-based strategies are needed to improve outcomes. We previously reported that genetic deficiency in the chemokine receptor CCR1 improves survival and ameliorates tissue damage in Candida-infe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lionakis MS,Albert ND,Swamydas M,Lee CR,Loetscher P,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first IMP metallo-beta-lactamase in Aeromonas caviae: IMP-19, which differed from IMP-2 by a single amino acid change (Arg to Ala at position 38). bla(IMP-19) was found within a class 1 integron located on a 35-kb plasmid. This is also the first description of an IMP producer in France. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neuwirth C,Siebor E,Robin F,Bonnet R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infections caused by the Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex (MAC) are the most frequent opportunistic bacterial infections in patients with AIDS. MAC isolates are resistant to many of the standard antituberculous drugs. Failure to obtain significant activities of certain drugs is due to difficu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mehta RT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical treatment failures have been reported to occur in early Lyme borreliosis (LB) for many suitable antimicrobial agents. Investigations of possible resistance mechanisms of the Borrelia burgdorferi complex must analyze clinical isolates obtained from LB patients, despite their receiving antibiotic treatment. Her...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hunfeld KP,Ruzic-Sabljic E,Norris DE,Kraiczy P,Strle F

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of ketolide HMR 3647 against coryneform bacteria isolated from clinical samples was evaluated. Except against Corynebacterium jeikeium and C. urealyticum, HMR 3647 showed high activity against Corynebacterium spp., being more active than 14- and 16-membered macrolides, azithromycin, or clindamyci...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martínez-Martínez L,Pascual A,Suárez AI,Perea EJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 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 activity of NXL103 against 108 strains of Haemophilus influenzae was tested using Haemophilus test media (HTM) obtained from various sources. With the exception of those obtained with stored HTM, MICs did not differ significantly, with MIC(50) and MIC(90) values of 0.5 and 0.5 to 1 microg/ml, respectively, in each...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pankuch GA,Hoellman D,Bryskier A,Lowther J,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00