Clinical evaluation of cefotaxime for therapy of lower respiratory tract infections.

abstract：:In order to probe the structure and function of the mycobacterial catalase-peroxidase enzyme (KatG), we employed a genetic approach using dominant-negative analysis of katG merodiploids. Transformation of Mycobacterium bovis BCG with various katG point mutants (expressed from low-copy-number plasmids) resulted in redu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： DeVito JA,Morris S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles are significantly different in critically ill patients because of the drastic variability of the patients' physiological parameters. Published population PK studies have mainly focused on specific diseases, and the majority of these studies had small sample sizes. The aim of th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen W,Zhang D,Lian W,Wang X,Du W,Zhang Z,Guo D,Zhang X,Zhan Q,Li P

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Telithromycin MICs for 13,874 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected in the first 3 years of the global PROTEKT study (1999 to 2003) were studied. There was no change in the distribution of telithromycin MICs over this period, even in countries where telithromycin is in use. The telithromycin MICs for 10 isolates...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Farrell DJ,Felmingham D

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes present in the first 120 clinical isolates harboring extended-spectrum beta-lactamases isolated in Spain were studied. Most of these isolates (84%) were gentamicin resistant. The enzymes most frequently associated and cotransferred with SHV-2 or TEM-type beta-lactamases were AAC(3)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fernandez-Rodriguez A,Canton R,Perez-Diaz JC,Martinez-Beltran J,Picazo JJ,Baquero F

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomycin binds to the bacterial ribosome and disrupts protein synthesis by promoting misreading of mRNA. Restrictive mutations on the ribosomal subunit protein S12 confer a streptomycin resistance (Strr) phenotype and concomitantly increase the accuracy of the decoding process and decrease the rate of translation....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen C,Blumentritt CA,Curtis MM,Sperandio V,Torres AG,Dudley EG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 150,000 small-molecule compounds were tested by a robotic screening assay for their ability to inhibit nucleoside triphosphate hydrolase (NTPase), a novel enzyme of the tachyzoite form of Toxoplasma gondii. Five unrelated species of compounds were found to inhibit the activities of both NTPase isoforms (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Asai T,Takeuchi T,Diffenderfer J,Sibley LD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of cefazolin was assessed by continuous turbidimetric monitoring of cultures of gram-negative bacilli and the results were compared with those previously obtained with other beta-lactam agents using the same strains and methods. Cefazolin was found to induce rapid lysis of ampicillin-susceptible ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Greenwood D,Chan-Teoh CH,O'Grady F

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biapenem, formerly LJC 10,627 or L-627, a carbapenem antibiotic, was studied in its interactions with 12 beta-lactamases belonging to the four molecular classes proposed by R. P. Ambler (Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Biol. Sci. 289:321-331, 1980). Kinetic parameters were determined. Biapenem was readily inactivated by ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Felici A,Perilli M,Segatore B,Franceschini N,Setacci D,Oratore A,Stefani S,Galleni M,Amicosante G

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[14C]aztreonam was administered intramuscularly (50 mg/kg) to male and female rats. Groups of 10 rats (five male and five female) were sacrificed at 0.25, 2, 6, and 24 h after dosing. Blood and various tissues were removed from six rats (three male and three female) in each group for determination of total radioactivi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singhvi SM,Ita CE,Shaw JM,Migdalof BH

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:The NS3/4A protease from hepatitis C virus (HCV) plays a key role in viral replication. We report a system for monitoring the activity of this enzyme in single living mammalian cells. We constructed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) probe that consists of an enhanced cyan fluorescent protein-citrine fusi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sabariegos R,Picazo F,Domingo B,Franco S,Martinez MA,Llopis J

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage therapy is a promising alternative treatment to antibiotics, as it has been documented to be efficacious against multidrug-resistant bacteria with minimal side effects. Several groups have demonstrated the efficacy of phage suspension in vivo to treat lung infections using intranasal delivery; however, p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chang RYK,Chen K,Wang J,Wallin M,Britton W,Morales S,Kutter E,Li J,Chan HK

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Five sequential Cryptococcus neoformans isolates recovered from an AIDS patient with recurrent meningitis were analyzed. Four isolates were fluconazole susceptible, while the fifth isolate developed fluconazole resistance. Analysis of the 14-alpha lanosterol demethylase gene (ERG11) showed a point mutation in the resi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodero L,Mellado E,Rodriguez AC,Salve A,Guelfand L,Cahn P,Cuenca-Estrella M,Davel G,Rodriguez-Tudela JL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antistaphylococcal activity of the novel chimeric endolysin PRF-119 was evaluated with the microdilution method. The MIC(50) and MIC(90) of 398 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates were 0.098 μg/ml and 0.391 μg/ml, respectively (range, 0.024 to 0.780 μg/ml). Both the MIC(50) and MIC(90) values of 776...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Idelevich EA,von Eiff C,Friedrich AW,Iannelli D,Xia G,Peters G,Peschel A,Wanninger I,Becker K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacies of cilofungin and amphotericin B separately and together in mice with disseminated candidiasis were studied. Male CD-1 mice (age, 5 weeks) were infected intravenously with 3 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans. At 4 days postinfection, intraperitoneal therapy was initiated and was continued for 14 days. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hanson LH,Perlman AM,Clemons KV,Stevens DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-four patients with recurrences of genital herpes were randomized in a double-blind trial to receive topical therapy for 5 days with either alpha-2a interferon at 30 X 10(6) IU/ml or 10 X 10(6) IU/ml or placebo six times daily. No differences were noted between either interferon dose and placebo with respect to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eron LJ,Toy C,Salsitz B,Scheer RR,Wood DL,Nadler PI

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridioides difficile causes severe antibiotic-associated diarrhea and colitis. C. difficile is an anaerobic, Gram-positive sporeformer that is highly resistant to β-lactams, the most commonly prescribed antibiotics. The resistance of C. difficile to β-lactam antibiotics allows the pathogen to replicate and cause d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sandhu BK,Edwards AN,Anderson SE,Woods EC,McBride SM

更新日期：2019-12-20 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：:Colistin is an old antibiotic that has recently gained a considerable renewal of interest for the treatment of pulmonary infections due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Nebulization seems to be a promising form of administration, but colistin is administered as an inactive prodrug, colistin methanesulfon...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boisson M,Jacobs M,Grégoire N,Gobin P,Marchand S,Couet W,Mimoz O

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of linezolid and temporin A in the prevention of prosthetic graft infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis with intermediate resistance to glycopeptides was investigated in a subcutaneous rat pouch model. Linezolid and temporin A, alone or combined, greatly reduced the bacterial n...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giacometti A,Cirioni O,Ghiselli R,Orlando F,D'Amato G,Kamysz W,Mocchegiani F,Sisti V,Silvestri C,Łukasiak J,Rocchi M,Saba V,Scalise G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) threatens global TB control. The lengthy treatment includes one of the injectable drugs kanamycin, amikacin, and capreomycin, usually for the first 6 months. These drugs have potentially serious toxicities, and when given as intramuscular injections, dosing can be painful. Adv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dharmadhikari AS,Kabadi M,Gerety B,Hickey AJ,Fourie PB,Nardell E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribavirin was inactive against the rotavirus of murine gastroenteritis; this may be due to the presence of guanosine inhibitors in the gut. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schoub BD,Prozesky OW

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Proteus strains are usually resistant to colistin. We have observed an increase in the level of colistin resistance in four clinical isolates of P. vulgaris, P. morganii, and P. rettgeri by prior treatment with subinhibitory concentrations of the drug. The enhanced resistance in these strains was lost after ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shimizu S,Iyobe S,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syringopeptins are a group of antimicrobial cyclic lipodepsipeptides produced by several plant-associated pseudomonads. A novel syringopeptin, SP508, was shown to be produced as two homologs (A and B) by Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans strain 508 from apple and to structurally resemble syringopeptin SP22. SP50...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grgurina I,Bensaci M,Pocsfalvi G,Mannina L,Cruciani O,Fiore A,Fogliano V,Sorensen KN,Takemoto JY

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Formimidoyl thienamycin (MK0787) was active against beta-lactamase-producing strains and was an effective inhibitor of beta-lactamases extracted and purified from these strains except for plasmid-mediated penicillinase type IV. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Toda M,Sato K,Nakazawa H,Inoue M,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus flavus is the second most significant pathogenic cause of invasive aspergillosis; however, its emergence risks and mechanisms of voriconazole (VRC) resistance have not yet been elucidated in detail. Here, we demonstrate that repeated exposure of A. flavus to subinhibitory concentrations of VRC in vitro cau...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ukai Y,Kuroiwa M,Kurihara N,Naruse H,Homma T,Maki H,Naito A

更新日期：2018-10-24 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：:Generation of pharmacodynamic relationships in the clinical arena requires estimation of pharmacokinetic parameter values for individual patients. When the target population is severely ill, the ability to obtain traditional intensive blood sampling schedules is curtailed. Population modeling guided by optimal samplin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tam VH,Preston SL,Drusano GL

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group 5043 examined pharmacokinetic (PK) interactions between amprenavir (APV) and efavirenz (EFV) both by themselves and when nelfinavir (NFV), indinavir (IDV), ritonavir (RTV), or saquinavir (SQV) is added. A PK study was conducted after the administration of single doses of APV (day 0). S...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morse GD,Rosenkranz S,Para MF,Segal Y,Difrancesco R,Adams E,Brizz B,Yarasheski KE,Reichman RC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent pharmacokinetic studies that included children found that serum drug levels were low compared to those of adults for whom the same dosages were used. This study aimed to characterize the pharmacokinetics of pyrazinamide and ethambutol in Malawian children and to examine the impact of age, nutritional status, an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Graham SM,Bell DJ,Nyirongo S,Hartkoorn R,Ward SA,Molyneux EM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00