Ketoconazole, amphotericin B, and amphotericin B methyl ester: comparative in vitro and in vivo toxicological effects on neutrophil function.

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonizes the sputum of most adult cystic fibrosis patients, forming difficult-to-eradicate biofilms in which bacteria are protected in their self-produced extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrices. EPS provide biofilms with viscoelastic properties, causing time-dependent relaxation after...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rozenbaum RT,van der Mei HC,Woudstra W,de Jong ED,Busscher HJ,Sharma PK

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefmenoxime were characterized in five healthy volunteers and in 15 subjects with various degrees of renal insufficiency after a single 10-mg/kg, 5-min intravenous infusion. Five of these subjects were studied both on hemodialysis and during an interdialytic period. Plasma, urine and dialysate ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gambertoglio JG,Alexander DP,Barriere SL

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central-line-associated bloodstream infections are increasingly recognized to be associated with intraluminal microbial biofilms, and effective measures for the prevention and treatment of bloodstream infections remain lacking. This report evaluates a new commercially developed antimicrobial catheter lock solution (AC...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chandra J,Long L,Isham N,Mukherjee PK,DiSciullo G,Appelt K,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred ninety-four patients, aged 6 months to 12 years, entered a multicenter, randomized, controlled, investigator-blind study comparing cefdinir, 7 mg/kg of body weight twice a day, with cephalexin, 10 mg/kg four times a day, each given for 10 days. The most common infections treated were impetigo and seconda...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tack KJ,Keyserling CH,McCarty J,Hedrick JA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICESp1116, responsible for erm(B)-mediated, inducible erythromycin resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes, was comprehensively characterized, and its chromosomal integration site was determined. It displayed a unique mosaic organization consisting of a scaffold, related to TnGallo1 from Streptococcus gallolyticus, with ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brenciani A,Tiberi E,Morici E,Oryasin E,Giovanetti E,Varaldo PE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are complex communities of microorganisms that attach to surfaces and are embedded in a self-produced extracellular matrix. Since these cells acquire increased tolerance against antimicrobial agents and host immune systems, biofilm-associated infectious diseases tend to become chronic. We show here that the m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arita-Morioka K,Yamanaka K,Mizunoe Y,Ogura T,Sugimoto S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial differences in antiretroviral treatment responses remain incompletely explained and may be a consequence of differential pharmacokinetics (PK) associated with race. Raltegravir, an inhibitor of HIV-1 integrase, is commonly used in the treatment of HIV-infected patients, many of whom are African-American. Howeve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wohl DA,Dumond JB,Blevins S,Pittard D,Ragan D,Wang R,Massengale K,Walsh K,Floris-Moore M,Eron JJ Jr,Richardson A,Hudgens MG,Kashuba AD

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One way to speed up the TB drug discovery process is to search for antitubercular activity among compound series that already possess some of the key properties needed in anti-infective drug discovery, such as whole-cell activity and oral absorption. Here, we present MGIs, a new series of Mycobacterium tuberculosis gy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blanco D,Perez-Herran E,Cacho M,Ballell L,Castro J,González Del Río R,Lavandera JL,Remuiñán MJ,Richards C,Rullas J,Vázquez-Muñiz MJ,Woldu E,Zapatero-González MC,Angulo-Barturen I,Mendoza A,Barros D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal inhibiting concentrations (MIC) of ampicillin, trisulfapyrimidines, and various combinations of these drugs were determined for four clinical isolates of Nocardia asteroides on Mueller-Hinton agar. The combination of ampicillin and sulfonamides was found to be synergistic for three of the four isolates whe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Orfanakis MG,Wilcox HG,Smith CB

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ajoene (4,5,9-trithiadodeca-1,6,11-triene 9-oxide), a product initially isolated from extracts of garlic (Allium sativum), was tested for its antimalarial activity in vivo in a well-characterized murine model. A single ajoene dose of 50 mg/kg, on the day of infection, suppressed the development of parasitemia; there w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perez HA,De la Rosa M,Apitz R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic activity of ciprofloxacin, enoxacin, and ofloxacin was evaluated in guinea pigs with acute and chronic experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia. Intratracheal instillations of P. aeruginosa resulted in fatal pneumonia in all untreated animals within 36 h. Among treatment groups (80 mg/kg [body wei...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kemmerich B,Small GJ,Pennington JE

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cidofovir (HPMPC; (S)-1-[3-hydroxy-2-(phosphonylmethoxy)propyl]cytosine) were examined at five dose levels in three phase I/II studies in a total of 42 human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients (with or without asymptomatic cytomegalovirus infection). Levels of cidofovir in serum following...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cundy KC,Petty BG,Flaherty J,Fisher PE,Polis MA,Wachsman M,Lietman PS,Lalezari JP,Hitchcock MJ,Jaffe HS

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different mechanisms of erythromycin resistance predominate in group C and G streptococcus (GCS and GGS, respectively) isolates collected from 1992 to 1995 in Finland. Of the 21 erythromycin-resistant GCS and 32 erythromycin-resistant GGS isolates, 95% had the mefA or mefE drug efflux gene and 94% had the ermTR methyl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kataja J,Seppälä H,Skurnik M,Sarkkinen H,Huovinen P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 18 strains of Mycobacterium fortuitum, 15 strains of M. chelonei, and 31 strains of M. chelonei-like organisms were tested by both broth microdilution and agar dilution to determine their susceptibility to 34 antimicrobial agents. All strains grew well enough in cation-supplemented Mueller-Hinton broth for ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swenson JM,Thornsberry C,Silcox VA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly frequent reports have described the in vivo loss of daptomycin susceptibility in association with clinical treatment failures. The mechanism(s) of daptomycin resistance is not well understood. We studied an isogenic set of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the bloodstream of a daptomycin-treated patient...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones T,Yeaman MR,Sakoulas G,Yang SJ,Proctor RA,Sahl HG,Schrenzel J,Xiong YQ,Bayer AS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiramycins are clinically important 16-member macrolide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces ambofaciens. Biosynthetic studies have established that the earliest lactonic intermediate in spiramycin biosynthesis, the macrolactone platenolide I, is synthesized by a type I modular polyketide synthase (PKS). Platenolide ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nguyen HC,Darbon E,Thai R,Pernodet JL,Lautru S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ro 09-0179 (4',5-dihydroxy-3,3',7-trimethoxyflavone), isolated from a Chinese medicinal herb, was found to have potent antiviral activity. It selectively inhibited the replication of human picornaviruses, such as rhinoviruses and coxsackieviruses in tissue culture, but not other DNA and RNA viruses. Ro 09-0298 (4',5-d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ishitsuka H,Ohsawa C,Ohiwa T,Umeda I,Suhara Y

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the evolution of drug target genes under changing drug policy is needed to assist monitoring of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance in the field. Here we genotype Pfcrt and Pfdmr1 of 700 isolates collected in French Guiana from 2000 (5 years after withdrawal of chloroquine) to 2008, i.e., the period when...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Legrand E,Yrinesi J,Ekala MT,Péneau J,Volney B,Berger F,Bouchier C,Bertani S,Musset L,Meynard JB,Mercereau-Puijalon O

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystathionine gamma-lyase (EC 4.4.1.1) was purified from Streptomyces cattleya, an actinomycete which produces the unusual beta-lactam antibiotic thienamycin. The enzyme displays broad substrate specificity and is similar to gamma-lyases purified from other microorganisms. That the gamma-lyase functions in vivo to pro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Williamson JM,Meyer R,Inamine E

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrotoxicity is the major limiting factor for the clinical use of vancomycin (VCM) for treatment of serious infections caused by multiresistant Gram-positive bacteria. This study investigated the renal protective activity of rutin in a rat model of VCM-induced kidney injury in male Wistar rats. VCM administered intr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Qu S,Dai C,Lang F,Hu L,Tang Q,Wang H,Zhang Y,Hao Z

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Violacein is a violet pigment extracted from the gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium violaceum. It presents bactericidal, tumoricidal, trypanocidal, and antileishmanial activities. We show that micromolar concentrations efficiently killed chloroquine-sensitive and -resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains in vitro;...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lopes SC,Blanco YC,Justo GZ,Nogueira PA,Rodrigues FL,Goelnitz U,Wunderlich G,Facchini G,Brocchi M,Duran N,Costa FT

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magainins are novel polycationic peptides with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, including activity against gram-negative bacteria. Gram-negative bacteremia can elicit endotoxic shock that is associated with the increased formation of eicosanoids. Inhibition of eicosanoid synthesis has been shown to improve the o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matera G,Cook JA,Geisel J,Ashton SH,Wise WC,Focá A,Berkowitz BA,Halushka PV

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior investigators have reported a broad gram-negative spectrum and a marked anti-Pseudomonas activity in vitro with BL-P1654, 6-[R-alpha-(guanylureido)phenylacetamido]-penicillanic acid. An in vitro comparison of BL-P1654 to carbenicillin was performed against 84 strains of Pseudomonas and 39 strains of Enterobacter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Overturf GD,Ressler R,Wilkins J

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefepime following administration of a single 2-g dose were evaluated for 12 adult patients with thermal burn injury and suspected or documented infection. Serial blood and urine samples for cefepime concentration determination were obtained for 24 h following drug administration. Serum and uri...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bonapace CR,White RL,Friedrich LV,Norcross ED,Bosso JA

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:We conducted time-kill studies to evaluate the inhibitory activities of either cefotaxime or minocycline alone and the two drugs in combination against a clinical strain of Vibrio vulnificus. The MICs of cefotaxime and minocycline were 0.03 and 0.06 microg/ml, respectively. When approximately 5 x 10(5) CFU of V. vulni...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chuang YC,Liu JW,Ko WC,Lin KY,Wu JJ,Huang KY

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins are small cationic bactericidal peptides present abundantly in the granules of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). Human PMNs contain four defensins termed HNP-1 to HNP-4. We used a new assay system in agar plates, the radial diffusion assay, to evaluate the effects of human defensins against gram-positive...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takemura H,Kaku M,Kohno S,Hirakata Y,Tanaka H,Yoshida R,Tomono K,Koga H,Wada A,Hirayama T,Kamihira S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tested against 9,412 recent clinical isolates, cefotaxime exhibited 8 to 64 times greater activity against the Enterobacteriaceae than did cephalothin and two to four times greater activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but only one-half to one-eighth the activity of cephalothin against staphylococci. Using 420 diff...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fuchs PC,Barry AL,Thornsberry C,Jones RN,Gavan TL,Gerlach EH,Sommers HM

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal infections, especially infections caused by Candida albicans, remain a challenging problem in clinical settings. Despite the development of more-effective antifungal drugs, their application is limited for various reasons. Thus, alternative treatments with drugs aimed at novel targets in C. albicans are needed....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li X,Hou Y,Yue L,Liu S,Du J,Sun S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Peramivir is an intravenous anti-influenza agent that inhibits viral growth by selectively inhibiting neuraminidase in human influenza A and B viruses. To characterize its pharmacokinetics, a population pharmacokinetic analysis of peramivir was performed using 3,199 plasma concentration data samples from 332...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matsuo Y,Ishibashi T,Hollister AS,Wajima T

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00