Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid in the treatment of lower respiratory tract infections caused by beta-lactamase-positive Haemophilus influenzae and Branhamella catarrhalis.

abstract：:Dientamoeba fragilis is a commonly encountered trichomonad which has been implicated as a cause of gastrointestinal disease in humans. Despite the frequency of reports recording infections with this parasite, little research has been undertaken in terms of antimicrobial susceptibility. The aim of this study was to eva...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nagata N,Marriott D,Harkness J,Ellis JT,Stark D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral Fusobacterium nucleatum populations from 20 young, healthy children were examined for beta-lactamase production. Ten children (50%) harbored, altogether, 25 beta-lactamase-positive F. nucleatum isolates that were identified as F. nucleatum subsp. polymorphum, F. nucleatum subsp. nucleatum, and F. nucleatum subsp....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Könönen E,Kanervo A,Salminen K,Jousimies-Somer H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current antimalarials are under continuous threat due to the relentless development of drug resistance by malaria parasites. We previously reported promising in vitro parasite-killing activity with the histone methyltransferase inhibitor BIX-01294 and its analogue TM2-115. Here, we further characterize these diaminoqu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malmquist NA,Sundriyal S,Caron J,Chen P,Witkowski B,Menard D,Suwanarusk R,Renia L,Nosten F,Jiménez-Díaz MB,Angulo-Barturen I,Santos Martínez M,Ferrer S,Sanz LM,Gamo FJ,Wittlin S,Duffy S,Avery VM,Ruecker A,Delves MJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Escherichia coli strain with a plasmidic amikacin resistance has been selected for which the evidence strongly indicates that resistance is mediated by aminoglycoside phosphotransferase [APH(3')-II]: (i) this resistance was coupled with resistance against kanamycin and neomycin; (ii) partially purified APH(3')-II[A...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bongaerts GP,Kaptijn GM

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal approach for empirical antibiotic therapy in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock remains controversial. A retrospective cohort study was conducted in the intensive care units of a university hospital. The data from 760 patients with severe sepsis or septic shock associated with Gram-negative bacte...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Micek ST,Welch EC,Khan J,Pervez M,Doherty JA,Reichley RM,Kollef MH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 4-month period in late 1988, we isolated ceftazidime-resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae and other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae from 29 patients at a chronic-care facility in Massachusetts. Ceftazidime resistance resulted from two distinct extended-spectrum beta-lactamases of the TEM type w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rice LB,Willey SH,Papanicolaou GA,Medeiros AA,Eliopoulos GM,Moellering RC Jr,Jacoby GA

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rifampin resistance gene, arr-2, has been found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The ARR-2 protein shows 54% amino acid identity to the rifampin ADP-ribosylating transferase encoded by the arr gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis. This arr-2 gene is located on a gene cassette within a class I integron. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tribuddharat C,Fennewald M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefazolin and cephalothin disk susceptibility and minimal inhibitory concentration determinations were conducted on 591 clinical isolates. Cefazolin demonstrated superior activity, as shown by lower minimal inhibitory concentrations, and a greater percentage of isolates inhibited in the disk susceptibility test. The c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Actor P,Guarini J,Uri J,Dickson J,Pauls JF,Weisbach JA

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida biofilm infections pose an increasing threat in the health care setting due to the drug resistance associated with this lifestyle. Several mechanisms underlie the resistance phenomenon. In Candida albicans, one mechanism involves drug impedance by the biofilm matrix linked to β-1,3 glucan. Here, we show this i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mitchell KF,Taff HT,Cuevas MA,Reinicke EL,Sanchez H,Andes DR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At equivalent oral doses, cefadroxil has a longer serum half-life, slower urinary excretion rate, greater area under the serum level versus time curve than cephalexin or cephradine, and peak serum concentrations that are 75 to 80% those of cephalexin. The calculated, apparent in vivo volume of distribution of cefadrox...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pfeffer M,Jackson A,Ximenes J,de Menezes JP

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to (i) construct a population pharmacokinetic (PK) model able to describe vancomycin (VAN) concentrations in serum in pediatric patients, (ii) determine VAN PK parameters in this population, and (iii) validate the predictive ability of this model in a naive pediatric population. Data ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lamarre P,Lebel D,Ducharme MP

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new fluorinated oxazolidinones, U-100592 and U-100766, were evaluated against more than 659 gram-positive and -negative organisms and compared with glycopeptides, erythromycin, clindamycin, clinafloxacin, and chloramphenicol. U-100592 and U-100766 were usually equally potent, but the MICs at which 90% of the isola...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones RN,Johnson DM,Erwin ME

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of the SHV-1 beta-lactamase gene was analyzed in 97 epidemiologically unrelated Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from clinical samples. beta-Lactamase bands that focused at a pI of 7.6 (SHV-1-type) in 74 strains, at a pI of 7.1 (LEN-1-type) in 13 strains, and at a pI of 5.4 (TEM-1-type) in 10 strains ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chaves J,Ladona MG,Segura C,Coira A,Reig R,Ampurdanés C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated the potent in vitro activity of erythromycin against Mycobacterium leprae as determined by its effect on ATP pools and rates of palmitate oxidation and phenolic glycolipid I synthesis. In the present study, the relative in vitro activities of a number of new macrolides with superior pharmaco...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Franzblau SG,Hastings RC

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha interferon and ribavirin are required in combination to achieve a sustained virological response in the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Alpha interferon has direct antiviral activity and also enhances HCV-specific T-cell responses. Ribavirin has little direct activity against HCV but reduces hepa...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barnes E,Salio M,Cerundolo V,Medlin J,Murphy S,Dusheiko G,Klenerman P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of a range of gram-positive and gram-negative microbial pathogens to clofazimine and its analog B669 (0.1 to 32 micrograms/ml), as well as the effects of these agents on membrane phospholipid metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, have been investigated in vitro. Gram-positive b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Rensburg CE,Jooné GK,O'Sullivan JF,Anderson R

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of zidovudine (ZDV) are established in patients with various stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. This study was conducted to determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of ZDV in patients with asymptomatic HIV infection and liver disease. HIV-infected volunteers with normal renal fu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moore KH,Raasch RH,Brouwer KL,Opheim K,Cheeseman SH,Eyster E,Lemon SM,van der Horst CM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) composite island (SCCmecAI16-SCCczrAI16-CI) was identified in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius. Four integration site sequences for SCC subdivided the 60,734-bp island into 41,232-bp SCCmecAI16, 19,400-bp SCCczrAI16, and 102-bp SCC-likeAI16 elements. SCCmecAI16 re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chanchaithong P,Prapasarakul N,Perreten V,Schwendener S

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilofungin has potent in vitro activity against Candida albicans, but previous in vivo models using twice daily intermittent dosing regimens have not consistently demonstrated in vivo efficacy. Because of the pharmacokinetics of cilofungin in rabbits, it has been suggested that administration by continuous intravenous...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rouse MS,Tallan BM,Steckelberg JM,Henry NK,Wilson WR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a first-line tuberculosis drug that inhibits the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via an as yet undefined mechanism. An M. tuberculosis laboratory strain that was auxotrophic for pantothenate was found to be insensitive to PZA and to the active form, pyrazinoic acid (POA). To determine whethe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dillon NA,Peterson ND,Rosen BC,Baughn AD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline-resistant isolates of Pasteurella multocida and Pasteurella haemolytica obtained from various locations in the United States and Canada were studied to determine the distribution of the tet(H) gene. Of the 31 isolates examined, 25 were found to contain the tet(H) gene. Chromosomal or plasmid DNA obtained ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hansen LM,Blanchard PC,Hirsh DC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of sparfloxacin, azithromycin, temafloxacin, and rifapentine against two virulent strains of the Mycobacterium avium complex isolated from patients with AIDS were evaluated in a model of intracellular infection and were compared with that of clarithromycin. Human monocyte-derived macrophages were infect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perronne C,Gikas A,Truffot-Pernot C,Grosset J,Vilde JL,Pocidalo JJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosmarinic acid (RA) reduced the mortality of mice infected with Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). Significant decreases in viral loads (P < 0.001) and proinflammatory cytokine levels (P < 0.001) were observed in JEV-infected animals treated with RA compared to levels in infected mice without treatment, at 8 to 9 day...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swarup V,Ghosh J,Ghosh S,Saxena A,Basu A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to rifampin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis results from mutations in the gene coding for the beta subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB). At least 95% of rifampin-resistant isolates have mutations in rpoB, and the mutations are clustered in a small region. About 40 distinct point mutations and in-frame insertions ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morlock GP,Plikaytis BB,Crawford JT

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent widespread emergence of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae is a major public health concern, as carbapenems are a therapy of last resort against this family of common bacterial pathogens. Resistance genes can mobilize via various mechanisms, including conjugation and transposition; however, the imp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sheppard AE,Stoesser N,Wilson DJ,Sebra R,Kasarskis A,Anson LW,Giess A,Pankhurst LJ,Vaughan A,Grim CJ,Cox HL,Yeh AJ,Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) Informatics Group.,Sifri CD,Walker AS,Peto TE,Crook DW,Mathers AJ

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The MIC of an antimalarial drug for a particular infection is the drug level associated with a net parasite multiplication rate of one per asexual cycle. To ensure the cure of malaria, the MIC must be exceeded until all parasites have been eliminated. The development of highly sensitive and accurate PCR quantitation o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hien TT,White NJ,Thuy-Nhien NT,Hoa NT,Thuan PD,Tarning J,Nosten F,Magnusson B,Jain JP,Hamed K

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of ketolide HMR 3647 against coryneform bacteria isolated from clinical samples was evaluated. Except against Corynebacterium jeikeium and C. urealyticum, HMR 3647 showed high activity against Corynebacterium spp., being more active than 14- and 16-membered macrolides, azithromycin, or clindamyci...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martínez-Martínez L,Pascual A,Suárez AI,Perea EJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery and use of penicillin, the increase of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens has become a major health concern. The most prevalent resistance mechanism in Gram-negative bacteria is due to β-lactamase expression. Class D β-lactamases are of particular importance due to their presence in mu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： June CM,Vallier BC,Bonomo RA,Leonard DA,Powers RA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for daily parenteral administration is an important limitation in the clinical use of pentavalent antimonial drugs against leishmaniasis. In this study, amphiphilic antimony(V) complexes were prepared from alkylmethylglucamides (L8 and L10, with carbon chain lengths of 8 and 10, respectively), and their poten...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fernandes FR,Ferreira WA,Campos MA,Ramos GS,Kato KC,Almeida GG,Corrêa JD Junior,Melo MN,Demicheli C,Frézard F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the development of a prototype antibiotic sensitivity assay to detect drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis using infection by mycobacteriophage to create a novel nucleic acid transcript, a surrogate marker of mycobacterial viability, detected by reverse transcriptase PCR (M. C. Mulvey et al...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mulvey MC,Lemmon M,Rotter S,Lees J,Einck L,Nacy CA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00