Experimental therapy of cladosporiosis and sporotrichosis with 5-fluorocytosine.

abstract：:A multicenter susceptibility surveillance (the S.A.U.C.E. project) including 2,721 Streptococcus pneumoniae, 3,174 Streptococcus pyogenes, and 2,645 Haemophilus influenzae consecutive isolates was carried out in 25 hospitals all over Spain from November 2001 to October 2002 to evaluate the current epidemiology of resi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pérez-Trallero E,García-de-la-Fuente C,García-Rey C,Baquero F,Aguilar L,Dal-Ré R,García-de-Lomas J,Spanish Surveillance Group for Respiratory Pathogens.

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For treatment of mild to moderate Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD), oral metronidazole has been recommended as the preferred agent, in part due to concern that vancomycin may be more likely to promote colonization by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). We performed a prospective observational study ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Al-Nassir WN,Sethi AK,Li Y,Pultz MJ,Riggs MM,Donskey CJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the ex vivo lysogenic transfer of erythromycin and tetracycline resistance genes among group A streptococci (GAS). Of 42 susceptible strains, 69% acquired erythromycin/tetracycline resistance when infected with purified supernatants from strain m46 culture containing the phage Φm46.1. A significant emm-type-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Di Luca MC,D'Ercole S,Petrelli D,Prenna M,Ripa S,Vitali LA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates of the same strain, identified in Poland, produced either TEM-47 or TEM-68, which differed by the Arg275Leu substitution. They harbored a few virulence factors, including an iron-chelating factor and capsule overproduction, suggesting that these factors were sufficient to enhance the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robin F,Hennequin C,Gniadkowski M,Beyrouthy R,Empel J,Gibold L,Bonnet R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolides are the antimicrobials of choice for treating human campylobacteriosis. The recent emergence of erm(B) in Campylobacter bacteria threatens the utility of this class of antibiotics. Here we report the constitutive and inducible expression of erm(B) in Campylobacter isolates derived from diarrheal patients an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Deng F,Shen J,Zhang M,Wu C,Zhang Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial susceptibility and mechanisms of resistance of 109 Shigella and 40 Salmonella isolates from children with diarrhea in southern Mozambique were assessed. The susceptibility to seven antimicrobial agents was tested by disk diffusion, and mechanisms of resistance were searched by PCR or colorimetric met...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mandomando I,Jaintilal D,Pons MJ,Vallès X,Espasa M,Mensa L,Sigaúque B,Sanz S,Sacarlal J,Macete E,Abacassamo F,Alonso PL,Ruiz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguably, one of the most common and consequential laboratory tests performed in the world is Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility testing. M. tuberculosis resistance is defined by growth of > or =1% of a bacillary inoculum on the critical concentration of an antibiotic. The critical concentration was chosen base...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gumbo T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of trimethoprim, sulfadiazine, sulfamethoxazole, and sulfathiazole on the hemagglutination and adhesion by three Escherichia coli strains were studied. The strains were isolated from the urine of patients with acute pyelonephritis and carried P antigen-recognizing fimbriae (P fimbriae). At antimicrobial co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Väisänen V,Lounatmaa K,Korhonen TK

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of Bay v 3522, a new aminobenzothiazol cephem, was compared with those of other oral beta-lactams. Bay v 3522 displayed high activity against Staphylococcus spp. (MICs for 90% of strains tested [MIC90S], 0.5 micrograms/ml), Streptococcus pneumoniae (MIC90, 0.06 micrograms/ml), and Haemophilus inf...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wise R,Andrews JM,Ashby JP,Thornber D

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of a single 1-g intravenous dose of mezlocillin were examined in six functionally anephric patients undergoing hemodialysis. Hemodialysis clearance calculated by plasma extraction ratios across the dialyzer membrane and by dialysis fluid agree well, averaging 26 and 32 ml/min. Dialyzer extraction ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Janicke DM,Mangione A,Schultz RW,Jusko WJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacterial biofilms, such as those found in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), exhibit increased antimicrobial resistance, due in part to the inherent architecture of the biofilm community. The protection provided by the biofilm limits antimicrobial dispersion and penetration and reduces the ef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Habash MB,Park AJ,Vis EC,Harris RJ,Khursigara CM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present case histories of four patients treated with artemether-lumefantrine for falciparum malaria in UK hospitals in 2015 to 2016. Each subsequently presented with recurrent symptoms and Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia within 6 weeks of treatment with no intervening travel to countries where malaria is endemic....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sutherland CJ,Lansdell P,Sanders M,Muwanguzi J,van Schalkwyk DA,Kaur H,Nolder D,Tucker J,Bennett HM,Otto TD,Berriman M,Patel TA,Lynn R,Gkrania-Klotsas E,Chiodini PL

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Various parameters were examined for their effects on interferon production with human fibroblast cells (FS-4) grown on microcarriers, using a superinduction procedure. Optimal concentrations of cycloheximide and actinomycin D during induction were 10 micrograms/ml, respectively. Cells required 5 to 6 h of exposure to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giard DJ,Fleischaker RJ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin and tobramycin inhibited the accumulation of extracellular proteases secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The secretion of protease was inhibited at concentrations of these drugs that were below the level required to inhibit general protein synthesis. Neither magnesium ions nor high ionic strength antagonize...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Warren RL,Baker NR,Johnson J,Stapleton MJ

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonpregnant and pregnant guinea pigs in the last third of gestation were injected intramuscularly with 4 mg of gentamicin per kg, and drug concentrations in plasma were determined by radioimmunoassay at several intervals after injection. The maximum gentamicin concentration was lower in pregnant than in nonpregnant an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lelievre-Pegorier M,Sakly R,Meulemans A,Merlet-Benichou C

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that HIV-1 resistant to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) is not cross-resistant to 3'-azido-2',3'-dideoxypurines. This finding suggested that the nucleoside base is a major determinant of HIV-1 resistance to nucleoside analogs. To further explore this hypothesis, we conducted in vitro selection ex...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meteer JD,Koontz D,Asif G,Zhang HW,Detorio M,Solomon S,Coats SJ,Sluis-Cremer N,Schinazi RF,Mellors JW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BEL-1 is an acquired class A extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Belgium which is divergent from other ESBLs (maximum identity of 54% with GES-type enzymes). This enzyme is efficiently inhibited by clavulanate, imipenem, and moxalactam. Crystals of BEL-1 were obt...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pozzi C,De Luca F,Benvenuti M,Poirel L,Nordmann P,Rossolini GM,Mangani S,Docquier JD

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:As drug resistance continues to grow, treatment strategies that turn resistance into a disadvantage for the organism will be increasingly relied upon to treat infections and to lower the rate of multidrug resistance. The majority of work in this area has investigated how resistance evolution toward a single antibiotic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodriguez de Evgrafov MC,Faza M,Asimakopoulos K,Sommer MOA

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of bacterial growth by measuring the release of (14)CO(2) from the metabolism of uniformly labeled (14)C-glucose has proven to be accurate, sensitive, and rapid. The inhibition of glucose metabolism by antibiotics as an index of bacterial susceptibility was evaluated based on radiometric methodology. Bacteri...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： DeLand FH

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we completely sequenced four mcr-1-haboring plasmids, isolated from two extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and two carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates. The mcr-1-harboring plasmids from an E. coli sequence type 2448 (ST2448) isolate and two K. pneumoniae ST...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li A,Yang Y,Miao M,Chavda KD,Mediavilla JR,Xie X,Feng P,Tang YW,Kreiswirth BN,Chen L,Du H

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfing motility is a novel form of surface adaptation exhibited by the nosocomial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the presence of the glycoprotein mucin, which is found in high abundance at mucosal surfaces, especially those of the lungs of cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis patients. Here, we investigated the ada...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun E,Gill EE,Falsafi R,Yeung A,Liu S,Hancock REW

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in the use of lipophilic copper (Cu)-containing complexes to combat bacterial infections. In this work, we showed that Cu complexes with bis(thiosemicarbazone) ligands [Cu(btsc)] exert antibacterial activity against a range of medically significant pathogens. Previous work using Neisseria ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Djoko KY,Goytia MM,Donnelly PS,Schembri MA,Shafer WM,McEwan AG

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 177 gram-negative isolates, the MICs for ciprofloxacin ranged from 0.02 microgram/ml (Escherichia coli) to 0.31 microgram/ml (Pseudomonas aeruginosa). In time-kill curves, ciprofloxacin at 8 X the MIC almost completely killed 10(6) CFU of P. aeruginosa by 24 h. Ciprofloxacin at 4 X the MIC allowed bacterial regrow...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rudin JE,Norden CW,Shinners EM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated DNA sequencing was used to analyze the oxyR-ahpC region in 229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates recently recovered from diseased humans and animals. The entire 1,221-bp region was studied in 118 isolates, and 111 other isolates were sequenced for oxyR, ahpC, or the 105-bp oxyR-ahpC intergenic regi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sreevatsan S,Pan X,Zhang Y,Deretic V,Musser JM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

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：:The goal of the present study was to examine the ability of cytochrome P450-2C9 (CYP2C9) to activate cyclophosphamide (CPA) and elicit tumor cell death. A CYP2C9-deficient human lymphoblastoid cell line (AHH-1 cells) and a derivative cell line (H2C9 cells) stably transfected with a cDNA encoding CYP2C9 were used. The ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhou D,Lu Y,Steiner MS,Dalton JT

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a leading cause of health care-associated diarrhea with significant morbidity and mortality, and new options for the treatment of C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) are needed. Cadazolid is a new oxazolidinone-type antibiotic that is currently in clinical development for treatment of CDAD...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Locher HH,Seiler P,Chen X,Schroeder S,Pfaff P,Enderlin M,Klenk A,Fournier E,Hubschwerlen C,Ritz D,Kelly CP,Keck W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of the new antiviral compound selenazofurin was compared with the known active compounds ribavirin and amantadine against influenza A and B viruses. In experiments with Madin Darby canine kidney cells, selenazofurin inhibited the cytopathic effect and yield of influenza A/NWS/33 virus, with 50% effective dose...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sidwell RW,Huffman JH,Call EW,Alaghamandan H,Cook PD,Robins RK

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism(s) of daptomycin (DAP) resistance (DAPr) is incompletely defined. Thickened cell walls (CWs) acting as either a mechanical barrier or an affinity trap for DAP have been purported to be a major contributor to the DAPr phenotype. To this end, we studied an isogenic set of methicillin-resistant Staphylococc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang SJ,Nast CC,Mishra NN,Yeaman MR,Fey PD,Bayer AS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis in the sorbitol-dependent, fragile yeast mutant VY1160 (Venkov et al., 1974) is rapidly inhibited by rifampin. The growth of the mutant cells and protein synthesis are more slowly affected by the antibiotic, apparently as secondary phenomena. Lower doses of rifampin (50 to 100 mug/ml) ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Venkov PV,Milchev GI,Hadjiolov AA

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00