Systemic absorption and persistence of tioconazole in vaginal fluid after insertion of a single 300-mg tioconazole ovule.

abstract：:Free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba are causing serious chronic conditions such as destructive keratitis in contact lens wearers or granulomatous amoebic encephalitis in individuals with compromised immune systems. Both are characterized by the lack of availability of sufficiently effective and uncomplicated...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walochnik J,Duchêne M,Seifert K,Obwaller A,Hottkowitz T,Wiedermann G,Eibl H,Aspöck H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 1-cyclopropyl-8-methoxy-quinazoline-2,4-diones was synthesized and evaluated for lowering the ratio of the antimicrobial MIC in gyrase resistance mutants to that in the gyr(+) (wild type) using isogenic strains of Escherichia coli. Dione features that lowered this ratio were a 3-amino group and C-7 ring st...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： German N,Malik M,Rosen JD,Drlica K,Kerns RJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 621 clinical isolates of Haemophilus influenzae collected in Japan between 1995 and 2003 were studied for their susceptibilities to several antimicrobial agents, beta-lactamase production, and amino acid substitutions in penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP 3). Over the four study periods (first period, 1995 t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sanbongi Y,Suzuki T,Osaki Y,Senju N,Ida T,Ubukata K

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racemic 2'-deoxy-3'-thiacytidine (BCH 189) is a dideoxycytidine analog having a sulfur atom in place of the 3' carbon. The enantiomers of BCH 189 have been resolved and found to be equipotent in antiviral activity against human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2. However, the (-)-enantiomer (3TC) is considerably les...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coates JA,Cammack N,Jenkinson HJ,Mutton IM,Pearson BA,Storer R,Cameron JM,Penn CR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacodynamic effects of metronidazole on Trichomonas vaginalis have been poorly characterized. The present in vitro study was performed to characterize the relationship between killing of trichomonads and metronidazole exposure (metronidazole concentration and time of exposure). Five laboratory strains and five...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nix DE,Tyrrell R,Müller M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the exposure-response relationships for efficacy and safety of voriconazole and anidulafungin in adult patients with invasive aspergillosis (IA), a population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) analysis was performed with data from a phase 3, prospective, double-blind, comparative study evaluating vor...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liu P,Mould DR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains a global health burden partly due to Plasmodium parasite resistance to first-line therapeutics. The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has emerged as an essential protein for blood-stage Plasmodium parasites, but details about its function during malaria's elusive liver stage are unclear...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Posfai D,Eubanks AL,Keim AI,Lu KY,Wang GZ,Hughes PF,Kato N,Haystead TA,Derbyshire ER

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in ventilator-associated pneumonia is a serious and often life-threatening complication in intensive care unit patients, and new treatment options are needed. We used B-cell-enriched peripheral blood lymphocytes from a volunteer immunized with a P. aeruginosa O-polysaccharide-toxin A c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Horn MP,Zuercher AW,Imboden MA,Rudolf MP,Lazar H,Wu H,Hoiby N,Fas SC,Lang AB

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of nonsusceptibility of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains to ceftriaxone increased significantly in Taiwan in 2005. Approximately 90% of the ceftriaxone-nonsusceptible isolates were found to be of four major serotypes (serotypes 6B, 14, 19F, and 23F). Seven amino acid alterations in the pe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chiu CH,Su LH,Huang YC,Lai JC,Chen HL,Wu TL,Lin TY

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a potent endogenous proinflammatory mediator implicated in the pathogenesis of septic shock. A double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial of an intravenous PAF receptor antagonist (lexipafant) was conducted with 131 adult Thai patients with suspected severe sepsis (66 of whom ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Suputtamongkol Y,Intaranongpai S,Smith MD,Angus B,Chaowagul W,Permpikul C,Simpson JA,Leelarasamee A,Curtis L,White NJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus is a major nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pathogen and is responsible for about 80% of all pulmonary infections caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria. Clofazimine is an effective drug active against M. abscessus, but the mechanism of resistance to clofazimine in M. abscessus is unknown. To...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen Y,Chen J,Zhang S,Shi W,Zhang W,Zhu M,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the entry of three aminoglycosides into inner-ear tissues of the guinea pig after acute and chronic administration were compared: gentamicin toxic to the cochlea and the vestibule, amikacin preferentially cochleotoxic, and netilmicin of low ototoxic liability. During constant intravenous infusion, leve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dulon D,Aran JM,Zajic G,Schacht J

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 20 nucleoside analogs were examined for their inhibitory effects on the cytopathogenicity and growth of influenza virus type A, B, and C strains in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Among the compounds evaluated, pyrazofurin, 3-deazaguanine, ribavirin, carbodine, and cyclopentenyl cytosine inhibited vir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shigeta S,Konno K,Yokota T,Nakamura K,De Clercq E

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that in lung tissue, thioridazine accumulates at high concentrations relative to serum levels, displaying modest synergy with isoniazid and reducing the emergence of isoniazid-resistant mutants in mouse lungs. In this study, we sought to investigate the sterilizing activity of human-equivalent dos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dutta NK,Pinn ML,Karakousis PC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing resistance of human pathogens to conventional antibiotics presents a growing threat to the chemotherapeutic management of infectious diseases. The lanthionine antibiotics, still unused as therapeutic agents, have recently attracted significant scientific interest as models for targeting and management o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parisot J,Carey S,Breukink E,Chan WC,Narbad A,Bonev B

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of penicillin, alone and in combination with sulbactam, against a heterogeneously methicillin-resistant, penicillinase-producing clinical isolate of Staphylococcus aureus and its penicillinase-negative derivative was investigated in vitro and in a rabbit experimental endocarditis model. Penicillin was sig...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fantin B,Pierre J,Castéla-Papin N,Saint-Julien L,Drugeon H,Farinotti R,Carbon C

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo activity of human immunoglobulin M monoclonal antibody IN-2A8, which is specific for flagellum type b of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, was evaluated in comparison to anti-O antigen (serotype B) MAb KO-2F2 and in combination with antibiotics. IN-2A8 showed stronger activity than KO-2F2 against subcutaneous infect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Uezumi I,Terashima M,Kohzuki T,Kato M,Irie K,Ochi H,Noguchi H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Tat and gp120 intriguingly share the feature of being basic peptides that, once released by HIV(+) cells, bind to polyanionic heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) on target uninfected cells, contributing to the onset of AIDS-associated pathologies. To identify multitarget anti-HIV p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bugatti A,Urbinati C,Ravelli C,De Clercq E,Liekens S,Rusnati M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) offer different recommendations for carbapenem MIC susceptibility breakpoints for Acinetobacter species. In addition, the clinical efficacy of the intermediate category remains uncertain. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang YS,Wang YC,Kuo SC,Chen CT,Liu CP,Liu YM,Chen TL,Lee YT

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyclovir reduced mortality and organ virus titers in mice inoculated intraperitoneally with 10 50% lethal doses of mouse cytomegalovirus. This susceptibility to acyclovir of a herpesvirus which lacks thymidine kinase is surprising. Alternative phosphorylating enzymes may account for this susceptibility. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wingard JR,Bender WJ,Saral R,Burns WH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artesunate (AS) is used in combination with amodiaquine (AQ) as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in many countries. We investigated the effect of concomitant AS administration on the pharmacokinetics of AQ and compared concentrations of desethylamodiaquine (DEAQ), the main metabolite of AQ, in plasma bet...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adjei GO,Kristensen K,Goka BQ,Hoegberg LC,Alifrangis M,Rodrigues OP,Kurtzhals JA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anilinouracils (AUs) such as 6-(3-ethyl-4-methylanilino)uracil (EMAU) are a novel class of gram-positive, selective, bactericidal antibacterials which inhibit pol IIIC, the gram-positive-specific replicative DNA polymerase. We have linked various fluoroquinolones (FQs) to the N-3 position of EMAU to generate a var...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Butler MM,Lamarr WA,Foster KA,Barnes MH,Skow DJ,Lyden PT,Kustigian LM,Zhi C,Brown NC,Wright GE,Bowlin TL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of LY 146032, a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic belonging to the class of agents designated A21978C, was compared with those of vancomycin, cefpirome, cefotaxime, and clindamycin against selected gram-positive bacteria. The new drug inhibited all staphylococcal isolates, including methicillin-resis...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eliopoulos GM,Willey S,Reiszner E,Spitzer PG,Caputo G,Moellering RC Jr

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoxicillin when administered with gastric acid suppressors has been shown to be effective in eradication of Helicobacter pylori in 50 to 80% of subjects. The aim of this investigator-blind crossover study was to determine if gastric mucosal amoxicillin uptake was affected by increasing gastric juice pH. Fifteen male ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cardaci G,Lambert JR,King RG,Onishi N,Midolo P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statins are inhibitors of cholesterol synthesis, but other biological properties, such as antimicrobial effects, have also been assigned to them, leading to their designation as pleiotropic agents. Our goal was to investigate the activity and selectivity of atorvastatin (AVA) against Trypanosoma cruzi by using in vitr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Araujo-Lima CF,Peres RB,Silva PB,Batista MM,Aiub CAF,Felzenszwalb I,Soeiro MNC

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports anti-Toxoplasma gondii activity of 3-(thiophen-2-yl)-1,2,4-triazole-5-thione. The compound displayed significant and reproducible antiparasitic effects at nontoxic concentrations for the host cells, with an experimentally determined 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) at least 30 times better than...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dzitko K,Paneth A,Plech T,Pawełczyk J,Węglińska L,Paneth P

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Ertapenem at 1 g once daily has been suggested to be underdosed in intensive care unit (ICU) patients to attain optimal concentrations in target tissues. Therefore, our study aimed to assess the kinetics of ertapenem in plasma and skeletal muscle in ICU patients using microdialysis. Average muscle free-ertapenem conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyadjiev I,Boulamery A,Simon N,Martin C,Bruguerolle B,Leone M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces bacteria are renowned for their ability to produce bioactive secondary metabolites. Recently, synthetic biology has enabled the production of intermediates and shunt products, which may have altered biological activities compared to the end products of the pathways. Here, we have evaluated the potential o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Oja T,San Martin Galindo P,Taguchi T,Manner S,Vuorela PM,Ichinose K,Metsä-Ketelä M,Fallarero A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence and severity of infection by Clostridium difficile have stimulated attempts to develop new antimicrobial therapies. We report here the relative abilities of two antibiotics (metronidazole and vancomycin) in current use for treating C. difficile infection and of a third antimicrobial, surotomyc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bouillaut L,McBride S,Sorg JA,Schmidt DJ,Suarez JM,Tzipori S,Mascio C,Chesnel L,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00