In vitro susceptibility of Bacillus spp. to selected antimicrobial agents.

abstract：:This report presents a fluorescent carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA)-modified microdilution method used for the susceptibility testing of Candida albicans to amphotericin B, fluconazole, ketoconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, and flucytosine. Four different broth microdilution susceptibility testing methods were ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liao RS,Rennie RP,Talbot JA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple PCR-based high-resolution melt curve analysis for identification of the quinolone resistance gene aac(6')-Ib-cr through regions encompassing the two defining single nucleotide mutations. Dissociation curves showed 100% concordance with DNA sequencing, including the identification of a strain...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hidalgo-Grass C,Strahilevitz J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to examine the effects of resistance mechanisms on several resistance phenotypes among carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates with borderline carbapenem MICs. We compared carbapenemase-negative K. pneumoniae with carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae (CPKP) isolates with similar MICs. CPKP isolat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adler A,Ben-Dalak M,Chmelnitsky I,Carmeli Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamine levels are greatly increased in alveolar macrophages (AMs) during Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), leading to increased production of H(2)O(2), which causes AMs to undergo apoptosis. One of the mechanisms by which polyamine levels in AMs are elevated is enhanced uptake of exogenous polyamines. In this study, th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liao CP,Phanstiel O 4th,Lasbury ME,Zhang C,Shao S,Durant PJ,Cheng BH,Lee CH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae strains have spread worldwide and become a major threat in health care facilities. Transmission of blaKPC, the plasmid-borne KPC gene, can be mediated by clonal spread and horizontal transfer. Here, we report the complete nucleotide sequences of two nov...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen L,Chavda KD,Melano RG,Hong T,Rojtman AD,Jacobs MR,Bonomo RA,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibility to linezolid shown by nine Greek isolates of Coxiella burnetii derived from patients with acute Q fever was investigated. MICs of linezolid were compared with those of pefloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, trovafloxacin, doxycycline, and clarithromycin using the shell vial assay. MICs of li...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gikas A,Spyridaki I,Scoulica E,Psaroulaki A,Tselentis Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penam nucleus can assume two conformations; these are designated open and closed. The synthetic (2,3)-alpha- and (2,3)-beta-methylenepenams can be regarded as analogs of the open and closed conformations, respectively. It has been shown that the beta-methylenepenams are essentially inactive, suggesting that the cl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Christenson JG,Pruess DL,Talbot MK,Keith DD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While Candida albicans remains the most common Candida isolate, Candida glabrata accounts for approximately 15 to 20% of all Candida infections in the United States. In this study we used immunosuppressed mice infected with C. glabrata to investigate the efficacy of liposomal amphotericin B alone or in combination wit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Olson JA,Adler-Moore JP,Smith PJ,Proffitt RT

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the widespread resistance of bacteria to the available drugs, the discovery of new classes of antibiotics is urgently needed, and naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered promising candidates for future therapeutic use. Amphibian skin is one of the richest sources of such AMPs. In the pr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mangoni ML,Maisetta G,Di Luca M,Gaddi LM,Esin S,Florio W,Brancatisano FL,Barra D,Campa M,Batoni G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of MK-0826, a new carbapenem, against 309 Bacteroides fragilis group strains was investigated and compared with that of 11 other beta-lactam and 5 non-beta-lactam agents. MK-0826 showed excellent activity (MICs ranged from < or =0.06 to 4 microg/ml). The new carbapenem may be useful in the treatment of mi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Betriu C,Sánchez A,Palau ML,Gómez M,Picazo JJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present population pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) study modeled the effects of covariates including drug adherence and the coadministration of protease inhibitors (PIs) on the pharmacokinetics of efavirenz (EFV) and the relationship between EFV exposure and virological failure in patients who failed...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pfister M,Labbé L,Hammer SM,Mellors J,Bennett KK,Rosenkranz S,Sheiner LB,Adult AIDS Clinical Trial Group Study 398.

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temafloxacin, a new fluoroquinolone, alone or in combination with tobramycin, was compared with penicillin, tobramycin, and their combination in the therapy of rabbits with endocarditis caused by Streptococcus adjacens GaDT, a new species of nutritionally variant streptococci. Animals were injected intramuscularly for...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cremieux AC,Saleh-Mghir A,Vallois JM,Maziere B,Muffat-Joly M,Devine C,Bouvet A,Pocidalo JJ,Carbon C

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:The repurposing of existing drugs is being pursued as a means by which to accelerate the development of novel regimens for the treatment of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). In the current study, we assessed the activity of the antipsychotic drug thioridazine (TRZ) in combination with the standard...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dutta NK,Pinn ML,Karakousis PC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri continues to be a major cause of diarrhea-associated illness, and increasing resistance to first-line antimicrobials complicates the treatment of infections caused by this pathogen. We investigated the pharmacodynamics of current antimicrobial treatments for shigellosis to determine the likelihood of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Allen GP,Harris KA

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing nontuberculous Mycobacterium species belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). It has been identified globally as the cause of a large outbreak of cardiovascular infections following open heart surgery, but it can also cause respiratory infections in individuals with ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mok S,Hannan MM,Nölke L,Stapleton P,O'Sullivan N,Murphy P,McLaughlin AM,McNamara E,Fitzgibbon MM,Rogers TR

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of 20 ampicillin-susceptible Haemophilus influenzae type b clinical isolates to the bactericidal action of ampicillin were studied by using a modified agar dilution plate count method. A well-defined paradoxical effect was observed in each of the 24-h killing curve patterns for 19 of the 20 isolates, the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Woolfrey BF,Gresser-Burns ME,Lally RT

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Beta-D-1',3'-Dioxolane guanosine (DXG) and 2,6-diaminopurine (DAPD) dioxolanyl nucleoside analogues have been reported to be potent inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We have recently conducted experiments to more fully characterize their in vitro anti-HIV-1 profiles. Antiviral assays perfo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gu Z,Wainberg MA,Nguyen-Ba N,L'Heureux L,de Muys JM,Bowlin TL,Rando RF

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous work, we described the possible relationship between a defect of purine-cytosine permease and the acquisition of a cross-resistance to the antifungal combination flucytosine (5FC) and fluconazole (FLC) in Candida lusitaniae (T. Noël, F. François, P. Paumard, C. Chastin, D. Brethes, and J. Villard, Antimi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chapeland-Leclerc F,Bouchoux J,Goumar A,Chastin C,Villard J,Noël T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the inhibitory activities of 10 polyether antibiotics on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1. These compounds caused concentration-dependent inhibition of HIV replication in primary infected cultures of human T-lymphoblastoid H9 cells. The ratio of 50% effective concentrations for cellular cytotoxici...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nakamura M,Kunimoto S,Takahashi Y,Naganawa H,Sakaue M,Inoue S,Ohno T,Takeuchi T

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of resistance to cefamandole has been observed, and the drug has failed to protect animals lethally infected with certain Enterobacteriaceae that appeared to be highly susceptible in vitro. Using spectrophotometric assays, some of these organisms were found to produce beta-lactamases highly active against ce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sanders CC,Sanders WE Jr

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoside analogues acyclovir (ACV) and famciclovir (FCV) reduce the frequency and severity of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) genital shedding, yet despite their high potency in vitro and a lack of induced drug resistance, frequent episodes of breakthrough mucosal shedding occur. We tested a published stochastic,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schiffer JT,Swan DA,Corey L,Wald A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of vancomycin and flavophospholipol (FPL) on the transfer rate of conjugative plasmids harboring the vancomycin resistance operon vanA was determined in several clinical and animal isolates of Enterococcus faecium. FPL significantly inhibited the frequency of transfer of conjugative VanA plasmids up to 7...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Riedl S,Ohlsen K,Werner G,Witte W,Hacker J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the eubacterial cell, the peptidoglycan is perpetually hydrolyzed throughout the cell cycle by different enzymes such as lytic transglycosylases, endopeptidases, and amidases. In Escherichia coli, four N-acetylmuramoyl-l-alanine amidases, AmiA, -B, -C, and -D, are present in the periplasm. AmiA, -B, and -C are solu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pennartz A,Généreux C,Parquet C,Mengin-Lecreulx D,Joris B

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of a clinical isolate of Staphylococcus aureus specifically resistant to oral cephalosporins were compared with those of a susceptible strain. In the resistant strain, PBP3 (75,000 molecular weight) was missing or had substantially (greater than 100-fold) reduced affinity for pen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Georgopapadakou NH,Smith SA,Bonner DP

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 24 patients with hepatitic C virus (HCV) infection who participated in a randomized trial with alpha 2B interferon, HCV RNA analysis by the polymerase chain reaction with two separate primer sets was performed at weeks 0, 4, and 24 and during a follow-up period of 6 to 9 months. Prior to therapy all patients were H...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kleter GE,Brouwer JT,Heijtink RA,Schalm SW,Quint WG

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:The Candida albicans CDR1 and CDR2 genes code for highly homologous ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters which are overexpressed in azole-resistant clinical isolates and which confer resistance to multiple drugs by actively transporting their substrates out of the cells. These transporters are formed by two homolog...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gauthier C,Weber S,Alarco AM,Alqawi O,Daoud R,Georges E,Raymond M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits with nutritionally variant viridans group streptococcal experimental endocarditis were treated three times daily for 3 days with procaine penicillin (1.2 X 10(6) U) alone or together with low-dose streptomycin (2 mg/kg), high-dose streptomycin (8 mg/kg), low-dose gentamicin (0.32 mg/kg), or high-dose gentamici...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Henry NK,Wilson WR,Roberts RB,Acar JF,Geraci JE

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of combinations of antimicrobials that together achieve synergistic activities against targeted microorganisms is one potential strategy for overcoming bacterial resistance. As the incidence of infections caused by multidrug-resistant staphylococci and enterococci increases, the importance of devising additional s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Allen GP,Cha R,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00