Comparative in vitro activity of ceftriaxone against anaerobic bacteria.

abstract：:Nephrotoxicity is the main complication of gentamicin (GM) treatment. GM induces renal damage by overproduction of reactive oxygen species and inflammation in proximal tubular cells. Phenolic compounds from ginger, called gingerols, have been demonstrated to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. We investiga...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodrigues FA,Prata MM,Oliveira IC,Alves NT,Freitas RE,Monteiro HS,Silva JA,Vieira PC,Viana DA,Libório AB,Havt A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norfloxacin is a quinolone (pyridonecarboxylic acid derivative) effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. We studied the effects of this drug on DNA metabolism in P. aeruginosa. Norfloxacin inhibits DNA replication immediately on its addition to a logarithmically growing culture of P. aeruginosa. It inhibit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Benbrook DM,Miller RV

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a chromosomally encoded putative drug efflux pump of the SMR family, named AbeS, from a multidrug-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii was characterized to elucidate its role in antimicrobial resistance. Expression of the cloned abeS gene in hypersensitive Escherichia coli host KAM32 resulted in ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Srinivasan VB,Rajamohan G,Gebreyes WA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient and reproducible procedure was developed for extracting aminoglycosides from renal cortical tissue. It involves a double homogenization and two rinsings with trichloroacetic acid. A higher recovery is obtained compared with that of other previously reported methods. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giuliano RA,Verpooten GA,Pollet DE,Verbist L,Scharpé SL,De Broe ME

更新日期：1984-06-01 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：:The metallo-β-lactamase VIM-4, mainly found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Acinetobacter baumannii, was produced in Escherichia coli and characterized by biochemical and X-ray techniques. A detailed kinetic study performed in the presence of Zn²+ at concentrations ranging from 0.4 to 100 μM showed that VIM-4 exhibits a ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lassaux P,Traoré DA,Loisel E,Favier A,Docquier JD,Sohier JS,Laurent C,Bebrone C,Frère JM,Ferrer JL,Galleni M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue fever is a severe, widespread, and neglected disease with more than 2 million diagnosed infections per year. The dengue virus NS2B/NS3 protease (PR) represents a prime target for rational drug design. At the moment, there are no clinical PR inhibitors (PIs) available. We have identified diaryl (thio)ethers as c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wu H,Bock S,Snitko M,Berger T,Weidner T,Holloway S,Kanitz M,Diederich WE,Steuber H,Walter C,Hofmann D,Weißbrich B,Spannaus R,Acosta EG,Bartenschlager R,Engels B,Schirmeister T,Bodem J

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Two hundred fifty isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were evaluated for susceptibility to ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, grepafloxacin, trovafloxacin, and gemifloxacin (SB-265805). Levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and grepafloxacin showed the greatest activity (MIC for 90% of strains tested [MIC(90)] 1 microg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ruiz-Serrano MJ,Alcalá L,Martínez L,Díaz M,Marín M,González-Abad MJ,Bouza E

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small unilamellar amphotericin B liposomes can reduce the toxicity of amphotericin B. In this study, we compared the physical, antifungal, pharmocokinetic, and toxic properties of two liposomal amphotericin B products, AmBisome and Anfogen, that have the same chemical composition but are manufactured differently. In v...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Olson JA,Adler-Moore JP,Jensen GM,Schwartz J,Dignani MC,Proffitt RT

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Against 443 aerobic and anaerobic bacteria isolated from diabetic foot infections, ceftobiprole MICs (microg/ml) at which 90% of the isolates tested were inhibited were as follows: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 1; methicillin-susceptible S. aureus and Staphylococcus lugdunensis, 0.5; Anaerococcus prevot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM,Merriam CV,Warren YA,Tyrrell KL,Fernandez HT

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R1033 is a plasmid of compatibility group P (= P1) transferred from a wild strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It confers resistance to gentamicin by gentamicin acetyl-transferase 1 and to kanamycin and neomycin by neomycin phosphotransferase 1. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smith DI,Lus RG,Rubio Calvo MC,Datta N,Jacob AE,Hedges RW

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey conducted between 1987 and 1994 at the University Hospital of Besançon, France, demonstrated a dramatic increase (from 0 to 42. 5%) in the prevalence of amoxicillin resistance among Salmonella spp. Of the 96 resistant isolates collected during this period (including 77 Typhimurium), 54 were found to produce T...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Llanes C,Kirchgesner V,Plesiat P

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinolones, in addition to their antibacterial activities, act as immunomodulators. Osteopontin (OPN), a member of the extracellular matrix proteins, was found to play a role in the immune and inflammatory response. We found that quinolones significantly enhanced OPN secretion, namely, garenoxacin (220%), moxifloxacin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shiratori B,Zhang J,Usami O,Chagan-Yasutan H,Suzuki Y,Nakajima C,Uede T,Hattori T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suboptimal doses of amphotericin B in combination with either rifampin or 5-fluorocytosine were better than single-drug therapy in the treatment of disseminated Aspergillus fumigatus infection in mice. Despite the increased effectiveness of combination therapy, none of the therapeutic regimens we used completely eradi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arroyo J,Medoff G,Kobayashi GS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of an L1 metallo-β-lactamase and an L2 serine active-site β-lactamase precludes the use of β-lactams for the treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections. Preclinical data suggest that cefiderocol is the first approved β-lactam with reliable activity against S. maltophilia, but data on strains r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Biagi M,Vialichka A,Jurkovic M,Wu T,Shajee A,Lee M,Patel S,Mendes RE,Wenzler E

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinazolinediones (diones) are fluoroquinolone-like inhibitors of bacterial gyrase and DNA topoisomerase IV. To assess activity against mycobacteria, C-8-methoxy dione derivatives were compared with cognate fluoroquinolones by using cultured Mycobacterium smegmatis. Diones exhibited higher MIC values than fluoroquinol...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malik M,Marks KR,Mustaev A,Zhao X,Chavda K,Kerns RJ,Drlica K

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of antibiotic resistance among Gram-negative bacteria is a serious clinical threat, and infections with these organisms are a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Traditional novel drug development inevitably leads to the emergence of new resistant strains, rendering the new drugs ineffective. Therefore, r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Soren O,Brinch KS,Patel D,Liu Y,Liu A,Coates A,Hu Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of exacerbations of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is highly challenging due to hypermutability, biofilm formation, and an increased risk of resistance emergence. We evaluated the impact of ciprofloxacin and meropenem as monotherapy and in combination in the d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bilal H,Bergen PJ,Tait JR,Wallis SC,Peleg AY,Roberts JA,Oliver A,Nation RL,Landersdorfer CB

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The 747-bp cfiA gene, which encodes a metallo-beta-lactamase, and the regions flanking cfiA in six imipenem-resistant and four imipenem-susceptible Bacteroides fragilis strains isolated in Japan were analyzed by PCR and DNA sequencing. The nucleotide sequences of the cfiA genes (designated cfiA(1) to cfiA(10)) of all ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kato N,Yamazoe K,Han CG,Ohtsubo E

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that various short- and medium-chain free fatty acids (FFAs) and their corresponding monoacylglycerol esters (MGs) have antibacterial activity in vitro against primarily gram-positive bacteria. More recent studies have also shown that the growth of Helicobacter spp. is inhibited by linoleic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Petschow BW,Batema RP,Ford LL

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput screening of transposon insertion libraries is a useful strategy for unveiling bacterial genes whose inactivation results in an altered susceptibility to antibiotics. A potential drawback of these studies is they are usually based on just one model antibiotic for each structural family, under the assum...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sanz-García F,Alvarez-Ortega C,Olivares-Pacheco J,Blanco P,Martínez JL,Hernando-Amado S

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase (DHFR-TS) is a well-validated antifolate drug target in certain pathogenic apicomplexans, but not in the genus Babesia, including Babesia gibsoni. Therefore, we isolated, cloned, and expressed the wild-type B. gibsoni dhfr-ts gene in Escherichia coli and evaluated the inhib...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aboge GO,Jia H,Terkawi MA,Goo YK,Nishikawa Y,Sunaga F,Namikawa K,Tsuji N,Igarashi I,Suzuki H,Fujisaki K,Xuan X

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in liaFSR, a three-component regulatory system controlling cell-envelope stress response, were recently linked with the emergence of daptomycin (DAP) resistance in enterococci. Our previous work showed that a liaF mutation increased the DAP MIC of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis strain from 1 to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Munita JM,Panesso D,Diaz L,Tran TT,Reyes J,Wanger A,Murray BE,Arias CA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian serum amyloid A (SAA) is a major acute phase protein that shows a massive increase in plasma concentration during inflammation. In the present study, we demonstrate that the expression of mouse SAA1 in serum was increased when infected with Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen, in a systemic infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gong J,Wu J,Ikeh M,Tao L,Zhang Y,Bing J,Nobile CJ,Huang G

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Standardized direct disk diffusion antibiotic susceptibility testing on monomicrobial urine specimens is compared with the Food and Drug Administration method. The direct procedure yields acceptable data and may conserve 24 h in reporting results. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wegner DL,Neblett TR

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenpropimorph was shown to inhibit the accumulation of the pyrimidine bases uracil and cytosine from the growth media in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Uracil prototrophs of S. cerevisiae were more resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of fenpropimorph than were uracil auxotrophs. High concentrations of uracil rescued...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Crowley JH,Lorenz RT,Parks LW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the susceptibilities of 77 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to four antibiotics: cefpodoxime, ceftriaxone, penicillin, and tetracycline. All strains were susceptible to ceftriaxone. Cefpodoxime MICs (range, 0.001 to 0.125 micrograms/ml) were parallel to and approximately four times those of ceftriaxone, and...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fekete T,Woodwell J,Cundy KR

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretive agreements among the results of fluconazole broth microdilution tests, Etests, and disk diffusion tests were documented by evaluating 495 Candida spp. Microdilution reference test results were in agreement with 96% of the Etest results; most discrepancies were minor differences. Fluconazole resistance of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barry AL,Pfaller MA,Rennie RP,Fuchs PC,Brown SD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of influenza viruses to antiviral drugs can emerge following medication or may result from natural variation. Two classes of anti-influenza virus drugs targeting either the M2 protein (amantadine and rimantadine) or neuraminidase (NA; oseltamivir and zanamivir) are currently licensed. These drugs are expect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Deyde VM,Nguyen T,Bright RA,Balish A,Shu B,Lindstrom S,Klimov AI,Gubareva LV

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00