In vitro activity and beta-lactamase stability of cefodizime, an aminothiazolyl iminomethoxy cephalosporin.

abstract：:The in vitro activities of seven fluoroquinolones against 290 anaerobes were determined by agar dilution. CI-960 and WIN 57273 inhibited greater than 95% of the strains at less than or equal to 2 micrograms/ml. CI-990 required less than or equal to 16 micrograms/ml. Clustering around 2 to 4 micrograms/ml was noted for...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclacillin, a new aminosalicylic semisynthetic penicillin, was compared with amoxicillin for the therapy of acute bacterial maxillary sinusitis in 80 patients (ages, 12 to 70 years) in a prospective, double-blind, randomized clinical trial. Direct sinus aspirations for quantitative culture were done for all patients ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Scheld WM,Sydnor A Jr,Farr B,Gratz JC,Gwaltney JM Jr

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 266 isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae determined by the agar dilution method showed that 6% of isolates were nonsusceptible to penicillin and 46% was resistant to erythromycin. Of the erythromycin-resistant isolates, 86.3% had the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) resistance...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hsueh PR,Teng LJ,Lee LN,Ho SW,Yang PC,Luh KT

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penam nucleus can assume two conformations; these are designated open and closed. The synthetic (2,3)-alpha- and (2,3)-beta-methylenepenams can be regarded as analogs of the open and closed conformations, respectively. It has been shown that the beta-methylenepenams are essentially inactive, suggesting that the cl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Christenson JG,Pruess DL,Talbot MK,Keith DD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli isolates which overexpressed acrB and had a substitution at amino acid 45 of AcrR were complemented with wild-type acrR. Complementation led to increased sensitivity to ciprofloxacin and to ethidium bromide, suggesting that mutation at amino acid 45 of AcrR contributes to cip...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Webber MA,Talukder A,Piddock LJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility to 14 antimicrobial agents and the mechanisms of aminopenicillin resistance were studied in 197 clinical isolates of Haemophilus influenzae--109 isolated in 2007 (study group) and 88 isolated in 1997 (control group). Community antibiotic consumption trends were also examined. H. influenzae strains w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： García-Cobos S,Campos J,Cercenado E,Román F,Lázaro E,Pérez-Vázquez M,de Abajo F,Oteo J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequences for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia serial isolates from a bacteremic patient before and after development of levofloxacin resistance were assembled de novo and differed by one single-nucleotide variant in smeT, a repressor for multidrug efflux operon smeDEF. Along with sequenced isolates from five...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pak TR,Altman DR,Attie O,Sebra R,Hamula CL,Lewis M,Deikus G,Newman LC,Fang G,Hand J,Patel G,Wallach F,Schadt EE,Huprikar S,van Bakel H,Kasarskis A,Bashir A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the nitroaromatic agents used in medicine function as prodrugs and must undergo activation before exerting their toxic effects. In most cases, this is catalyzed by flavin mononucleotide (FMN)-dependent type I nitroreductases (NTRs), a class of enzyme absent from higher eukaryotes but expressed by bacteria and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Voak AA,Seifert K,Helsby NA,Wilkinson SR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) produces two polyproteins, Pr55(Gag) and Pr160(Gag-Pol), that are cleaved into mature functional subunits by the virally encoded protease. Drugs that inhibit this protease are an important part of anti-HIV therapy. We studied the ordered accumulation of Gag and Gag-Pol proce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Speck RR,Flexner C,Tian CJ,Yu XF

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gardimycin, a new antibiotic, at 100 mug/ml, specifically inhibited cell wall synthesis and induced accumulation of uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylmur-amylpentapeptide in whole cells of Bacillus subtilis. The antibiotic was active in a particulate enzyme preparation from Bacillus stearothermophilus: 60 mug/ml caused 5...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Somma S,Merati W,Parenti F

更新日期：1977-03-01 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：:SCCmec is a mobile genetic element that carries the gene (mecA) mediating methicillin resistance in staphylococci. For Staphylococcus aureus, four SCCmec types have been described, one (type IV) of which has been associated with newly identified community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus. However, the distribu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wisplinghoff H,Rosato AE,Enright MC,Noto M,Craig W,Archer GL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel algorithm designed for the screening of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), based on faropenem and temocillin disks, was compared to that of the Committee of the Antibiogram of the French Society of Microbiology (CA-SFM), which is based on ticarcillin-clavulanate, imipenem, and temocillin disks. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dortet L,Bernabeu S,Gonzalez C,Naas T

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide-resistant group A streptococci (MRGAS) have been recovered from many countries worldwide. However, the strain typing information that is available has been insufficient for estimating the total number of macrolide-resistant clones, their geographic distributions, and their evolutionary relationships. In this...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robinson DA,Sutcliffe JA,Tewodros W,Manoharan A,Bessen DE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of ciprofloxacin for experimental aortic valve endocarditis in rabbits infected by either a methicillin-susceptible or a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus was compared with standard therapy of nafcillin or vancomycin, respectively. After 4 days of therapy, ciprofloxacin reduced the cou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Carpenter TC,Hackbarth CJ,Chambers HF,Sande MA

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a possible synergistic effect of a macrolide and beta-lactams against Streptococcus pneumoniae strains with different resistance profiles. Checkerboard and time-kill assays of erythromycin combined with penicillin or cefotaxime essentially showed indifference, suggesting that these antibiotics in combi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lin E,Stanek RJ,Mufson MA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chryseobacterium gleum (previously included in the Flavobacterium IIb species) is a gram-negative aerobe that is a source of nosocomial infections. An Ambler class B beta-lactamase gene was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli from reference strain C. gleum CIP 103039 that had reduced susceptibility to expanded-sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bellais S,Naas T,Nordmann P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of attenuated Bacillus anthracis with high-level ciprofloxacin resistance were isolated using a three-step in vitro selection. Ciprofloxacin MICs were 0.5 micro g/ml for first-step mutants, which had one of two gyrA quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) mutations. Ciprofloxacin MICs were 8 and 16 micr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Price LB,Vogler A,Pearson T,Busch JD,Schupp JM,Keim P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribavirin (RBV) is a broad-spectrum antiviral agent that inhibits the production of infectious Hantaan virus (HTNV). Although the mechanism of action of RBV against HTNV is not understood, RBV is metabolized in human cells to both RBV-5'-monophosphate, which inhibits IMP dehydrogenase, resulting in a decrease in intra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun Y,Chung DH,Chu YK,Jonsson CB,Parker WB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of subclasses mefA and mefE of the mefA gene among 116 M-phenotype streptococci was as follows: pneumococci (38 strains had mefE and 4 mefA), viridans streptococci (49 mefE and 1 mefA), and Streptococcus pyogenes (24 mefA). Spain(9V)-3-14 and England(14)-9 clones of serotype 14 were dominant among pne...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ardanuy C,Tubau F,Liñares J,Domínguez MA,Pallarés R,Martín R,Spanish Pneumococcal Infection Study Network (G03\/103).

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the siderophore cephalosporin cefiderocol is targeted against carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. In this study, the activity of cefiderocol against characterized carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii complex, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacteriaceae ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jacobs MR,Abdelhamed AM,Good CE,Rhoads DD,Hujer KM,Hujer AM,Domitrovic TN,Rudin SD,Richter SS,van Duin D,Kreiswirth BN,Greco C,Fouts DE,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2018-12-21 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：:A colistin-resistant Escherichia coli strain was recovered from a patient with a diabetic foot infection in Brazil. Whole-genome analysis revealed that the E. coli isolate belonged to the widespread sequence type (ST) 101 and harbored the mcr-1 gene on an IncX4 plasmid that was highly similar to mcr-1-bearing IncX4 pl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fernandes MR,McCulloch JA,Vianello MA,Moura Q,Pérez-Chaparro PJ,Esposito F,Sartori L,Dropa M,Matté MH,Lira DP,Mamizuka EM,Lincopan N

更新日期：2016-09-23 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：:We describe the pharmacokinetics of raltegravir of a preterm newborn after short-course treatment of the mother tested HIV + the day of delivery. At age 1 month, the circulating concentration of raltegravir in the newborn was 29 ng/ml (the IC95 of RAL against HIV-1 is 15 ng/ml). Raltegravir should therefore be conside...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clavel-Osorio C,Cazassus F,Stegmann S,Huc-Anaïs P,Lecam D,Peytavin G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) can be associated with mitochondrial toxicity. In vitro studies have been used to predict the predisposition for and characterize the mechanisms causing mitochondrial toxicity. Entecavir (ETV) is an approved deoxyguanosine nucleoside for the treatment of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mazzucco CE,Hamatake RK,Colonno RJ,Tenney DJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 112 clinical isolates of Haemophilus ducreyi to six antimicrobial agents were determined. These isolates were obtained in Kigali, Rwanda, during three studies on genital ulcer disease performed in 1986 (18 isolates), 1988 (23 isolates), and 1991 (71 isolates). All H. ducreyi isolates w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Dyck E,Bogaerts J,Smet H,Tello WM,Mukantabana V,Piot P

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro pharmacodynamic properties of colistin and colistin methanesulfonate were investigated by studying the MICs, time-kill kinetics, and postantibiotic effect (PAE) against mucoid and nonmucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis. Twenty-three clinical strains, includ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li J,Turnidge J,Milne R,Nation RL,Coulthard K

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty percent (21 of 26) of macrolide-resistant Peptostreptococcus strains studied harbored the ermTR gene. This methyltransferase gene is also the most frequently found gene among macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes strains. Transfer of the ermTR gene from Peptostreptococcus magnus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Reig M,Galan J,Baquero F,Perez-Diaz JC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telavancin displays potent in vitro and in vivo activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), including strains with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin. We compared the efficacies of telavancin and vancomycin against MRSA strains with vancomycin MICs of ≥1 μg/ml in a neutropenic murine lung in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Crandon JL,Kuti JL,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00