Method of evaluating effects of antibiotics on bacterial biofilm.

abstract：:Thein vitroantibacterial activities of ceftazidime-avibactam and comparator agents were evaluated using reference broth microdilution methods against 1,743Pseudomonas aeruginosaisolates collected in 2014 from 69 U.S. medical centers, representing each of the nine census regions. Ceftazidime-avibactam demonstrated pote...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Huband MD,Castanheira M,Flamm RK,Farrell DJ,Jones RN,Sader HS

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of any of six clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus to daptomycin alone or in combination with vancomycin or oxacillin (compared with vancomycin or oxacillin alone) led to a dampened macrophage inflammatory response with diminished tumor necrosis factor secretion and reduced accumulation of inducible nit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： English BK,Maryniw EM,Talati AJ,Meals EA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of growth inhibition of Escherichia coli by thioglycerol was probed. The extent of growth inhibition depended on the ratio of thioglycerol to initial cell concentration. Exogenously added methionine and several methionine analogues reversed the inhibition of 2 to 40 mM thioglycerol. Exposure to thioglyce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Javor GT

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaborbactam (formerly RPX7009) is a member of a new class of β-lactamase inhibitor with pharmacokinetic properties similar to those of many β-lactams, including carbapenems. The pharmacokinetics and safety of vaborbactam were evaluated in 80 healthy adult subjects in a first-in-human randomized, placebo-controlled, do...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Griffith DC,Loutit JS,Morgan EE,Durso S,Dudley MN

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility of pathogenic aerobic bacteria to moxalactam (LY127935) was compared by two methods, diffusion from 30-microgram disks and agar plate dilution. The two methods gave a satisfactory degree of correlation when compared by linear regression, but the slope of the linear regression was significantly steeper f...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hall WH,Opfer BJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of [(aryl)arylsufanylmethyl]pyridines (AASMP) have been synthesized. These compounds inhibited hemozoin formation, formed complexes (K(D) = 12 to 20 muM) with free heme (ferriprotoporphyrin IX) at a pH close to the pH of the parasite food vacuole, and exhibited antimalarial activity in vitro. The inhibition o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kumar S,Das SK,Dey S,Maity P,Guha M,Choubey V,Panda G,Bandyopadhyay U

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus is intrinsically resistant to many antimycobacterial antibiotics, which presents serious problems in therapy. Here, we describe the development of a novel phenotype-based microscopic and computerized imaging drug screening approach. A pilot screen of 568 compounds from two libraries identified ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Richter A,Strauch A,Chao J,Ko M,Av-Gay Y

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspofungin acetate is an antifungal antibiotic that inhibits synthesis of 1,3-beta-D-glucan, an essential component of the fungal cell wall. While caspofungin causes cell death in yeasts and dimorphic fungi such as Candida albicans, its effect on Aspergillus fumigatus is less well understood. We used the fluorescent ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bowman JC,Hicks PS,Kurtz MB,Rosen H,Schmatz DM,Liberator PA,Douglas CM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a major cause of nosocomial infections because of its ability to form biofilms on the surface of medical devices. Only a few antibacterial agents are relatively active against biofilms, and rifampin, a transcription inhibitor, ranks among the most effective molecules against biofilm-relat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Villain-Guillot P,Gualtieri M,Bastide L,Leonetti JP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomycin, the first antibiotic used in tuberculosis control programs, perturbs protein synthesis at the ribosome level. It is shown here that streptomycin resistance in some clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is associated either with missense mutations in the rpsL gene, which encodes ribosomal protei...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Honoré N,Cole ST

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The residual antibiotic concentration of vancomycin (2 mg/ml)- or ceftazidime (2 mg/ml)-heparin solutions instilled in ports in pediatric hematology-oncology patients 1 to 34 days earlier was measured. Antibiotic concentrations of > or = 100 microg of either antibiotic per ml persisted for at least 21 days. For treatm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Haimi-Cohen Y,Husain N,Meenan J,Karayalcin G,Lehrer M,Rubin LG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dipeptide lantibiotic, named Smb, in Streptococcus mutans GS5 was characterized by molecular genetic approaches. The Smb biosynthesis gene locus is encoded by a 9.5-kb region of chromosomal DNA and consists of seven genes in the order smbM1, -T, -F, -M2, -G, -A, -B. This operon is not present in some other strains o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yonezawa H,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the sequence of a 630-bp fragment of a gene associated with resistance to high levels of vancomycin in a clinical isolate of Enterococcus faecalis which retained susceptibility to teicoplanin. This gene was similar to the recently sequenced vanB and partially homologous with vanA, but it showed less-marked s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gold HS,Unal S,Cercenado E,Thauvin-Eliopoulos C,Eliopoulos GM,Wennersten CB,Moellering RC Jr

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica has emerged as an enteropathogen associated with several types of human infections that often require antimicrobial therapy, but little is known about the antimicrobial susceptibilities of pathogenic strains isolated from humans in Canada. To determine the present patterns of antimicrobial susc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Preston MA,Brown S,Borczyk AA,Riley G,Krishnan C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Deazauridine, a synthetic analogue of uridine and a potential antitumor agent, was found to possess antiviral activity against a number of ribonucleic acid-containing animal viruses in mammalian cell culture. Inhibition of virus-induced cytopathogenic effects by 3-deazauridine was observed in cells infected with rhi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shannon WM,Arnett G,Schabel FM Jr

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PD 131628 is a new aminopyrrolidine-substituted fluorocyclopropyl naphthyridine quinolone which possesses high in vitro activity against a wide spectrum of bacterial species. The MICs for greater than or equal to 90% of strains were 0.125 to 0.25 microgram/ml for staphylococci, Streptococcus pyogenes, and S. pneumonia...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cohen MA,Huband MD,Mailloux GB,Yoder SL,Roland GE,Domagala JM,Heifetz CL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the isolation of 31 Acinetobacter baumannii strains producing OXA-253 in a single large Brazilian city. These strains belonged to five different sequence types (STs), including 4 STs not previously associated with blaOXA-253 In all strains, the blaOXA-253 gene was located in a plasmid within a genetic ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Sá Cavalcanti FL,Mendes-Marques CL,Vasconcelos CR,de Lima Campos T,Rezende AM,Xavier DE,Leal NC,de-Melo-Neto OP,de Morais MM,Leal-Balbino TC

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen oral streptococci and 18 enterococci were tested for the presence of DNA sequences homologous to the conjugative transposon Tn916 encoding tetracycline resistance. All the strains were resistant to tetracyclines, including minocycline, and most of them were resistant to other antibiotics. Tn916-like structur...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bentorcha F,Clermont D,de Cespédès G,Horaud T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we provide the first biochemical evidence of the existence of a family of structure-related antimicrobial peptides, the siderophore-microcins, in the Enterobacteriaceae family. We isolated and characterized two novel siderophore-microcins, MccM and MccH47, previously characterized through genetic studies...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vassiliadis G,Destoumieux-Garzón D,Lombard C,Rebuffat S,Peduzzi J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential alternatives, including linezolid, adjunctive rifampin, and moxifloxacin, were evaluated against vancomycin-tolerant (P9802-020) and vancomycin-susceptible clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model. Vancomycin exhibited maximal killing of 2-log(10) CFU/ml against P980...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cha R,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously published literature reports various impacts of food on the oral bioavailability of piperaquine. The aim of this study was to use a population modeling approach to investigate the impact of concomitant intake of a small amount of food on piperaquine pharmacokinetics. This was an open, randomized comparison ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tarning J,Lindegardh N,Lwin KM,Annerberg A,Kiricharoen L,Ashley E,White NJ,Nosten F,Day NP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disk bioassay for determining clindamycin serum levels is presented. This method is rapid (results available in 6.0 to 6.5 h), reliable, and simple to perform. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liberman DF,Fitzgerald J,Robertson RG

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of resistance to last-resort antibiotics is a public health concern of global scale. Besides direct person-to-person propagation, environmental pathways might contribute to the dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Here, we describe the incidence of blaNDM...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mantilla-Calderon D,Jumat MR,Wang T,Ganesan P,Al-Jassim N,Hong PY

更新日期：2016-08-22 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：:The influence of inhibitors of P-glycoprotein (verapamil [VE], cyclosporine [CY], and GF120918 [GF]) on the cell handling of macrolides (erythromycin [ERY], clarithromycin [CLR], roxithromycin [ROX], azithromycin [AZM], and telithromycin [TEL]) was examined in J774 murine macrophages. The net influx rates of AZM and T...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seral C,Michot JM,Chanteux H,Mingeot-Leclercq MP,Tulkens PM,Van Bambeke F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-four patients with recurrences of genital herpes were randomized in a double-blind trial to receive topical therapy for 5 days with either alpha-2a interferon at 30 X 10(6) IU/ml or 10 X 10(6) IU/ml or placebo six times daily. No differences were noted between either interferon dose and placebo with respect to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eron LJ,Toy C,Salsitz B,Scheer RR,Wood DL,Nadler PI

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that genetic disruption of Toxoplasma gondii calcium-dependent protein kinase 3 (TgCDPK3) affects calcium ionophore-induced egress. We examined whether Plasmodium falciparum CDPK1 (PfCDPK1), the closest homolog of TgCDPK3 in the malaria parasite P. falciparum, could complement a TgCDPK3 mutant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gaji RY,Checkley L,Reese ML,Ferdig MT,Arrizabalaga G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel in vitro tests, assessing the inhibition of schizont maturation, were conducted with 31 fresh isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Thailand, using artemisinin, doxycycline, and combinations of both. The activities of artemisinin and doxycycline are obviously not correlated. Both compounds showed consistent ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sponer U,Prajakwong S,Wiedermann G,Kollaritsch H,Wernsdorfer G,Wernsdorfer WH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological signal molecule nitric oxide (NO) was found to induce biofilm dispersal across a range of bacterial species, which led to its consideration for therapeutic strategies to treat biofilms and biofilm-related infections. However, biofilms are often not completely dispersed after exposure to NO. To better un...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhu X,Oh HS,Ng YCB,Tang PYP,Barraud N,Rice SA

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of reactive thiol groups in recombinant human tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha (rhTNF-alpha) by the reagent succinimidyl-S-acetylthioacetate resulted in the formation of a chemically stabilized rhTNF-alpha trimer (rhTNFalpha-AT; as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophores...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Postma NS,Hermsen RC,Crommelin DJ,Eling WM,Zuidema J

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00