β-lactam combinations that exhibit synergy against Mycobacteroides abscessus clinical isolates.

abstract：:The in vitro and in vivo activities of modithromycin, a novel bicyclolide, against Legionella pneumophila were compared with those of telithromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin, and levofloxacin. All the test agents decreased the intracellular growth of viable L. pneumophila bacteria over 96 h of incubation in both t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sato T,Tateda K,Kimura S,Ishii Y,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artermisinin and its derivatives are now the mainstays of antimalarial treatment; however, their mechanism of action is only poorly understood. We report on the synthesis of a novel series of epoxy-endoperoxides that can be prepared in high yields from simple starting materials. Endoperoxides that are disubstituted wi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： del Pilar Crespo M,Avery TD,Hanssen E,Fox E,Robinson TV,Valente P,Taylor DK,Tilley L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the DNA sequence variation of van genes of 34 isolates of Enterococcus spp. The isolates containing the vanB gene exhibited between 0 and 41 base pair changes per 801 bp studied when the vanB sequences were compared to that of the reference strain Enterococcus faecalis V583. The isolates carrying the vanC-2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Patel R,Uhl JR,Kohner P,Hopkins MK,Steckelberg JM,Kline B,Cockerill FR 3rd

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MR M. pneumoniae) has been isolated from clinical specimens in Japan since 2000. A comparative study was carried out to determine whether or not macrolides are effective in treating patients infected with MR M. pneumoniae. The clinical courses of 11 patients with MR M. pneumo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Suzuki S,Yamazaki T,Narita M,Okazaki N,Suzuki I,Andoh T,Matsuoka M,Kenri T,Arakawa Y,Sasaki T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloramphenicol-resistant strains of Bacteroides fragilis (minimum inhibitory concentration, 12.5 mug/ml) were isolated from a stool specimen which contained multiply resistant Escherichia coli. The enzyme responsible for resistance, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, was produced constitutively by these strains; the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Britz ML,Wilkinson RG

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of rifampin on cutaneous hypersensitivity was studied in 11 tuberculous patients. A suppressive effect was noted in eight patients, five of whom developed a negative response to the strength of purified protein derivative to which they had been shown to be previously sensitive. In one instance complete aner...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mukerjee P,Schuldt S,Kasik JE

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiviral effects of selenazofurin (2-beta-D-ribofuranosylselenazole-4-carboxamide, selenazole), ribavirin (1-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide), and 3-deazaguanosine (6-amino-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylimidazo-[4.5-C]pyridin-4(5H)-one) were investigated separately and in various combinations in an in v...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kirsi JJ,McKernan PA,Burns NJ 3rd,North JA,Murray BK,Robins RK

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Candida albicans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen and the cause of superficial and systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. The classes of antifungal agents most commonly used to treat Candida infections are the azoles, polyenes, and echinocandins. In the present study, we identified chang...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hoehamer CF,Cummings ED,Hilliard GM,Rogers PD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of exacerbations of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is highly challenging due to hypermutability, biofilm formation, and an increased risk of resistance emergence. We evaluated the impact of ciprofloxacin and meropenem as monotherapy and in combination in the d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bilal H,Bergen PJ,Tait JR,Wallis SC,Peleg AY,Roberts JA,Oliver A,Nation RL,Landersdorfer CB

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of a 5-day treatment with coumermycin A1 (hereafter referred to as coumermycin) (at three dosage regimens), with ciprofloxacin, or with coumermycin plus ciprofloxacin was tested in experimental aortic valve endocarditis induced in rats by a strain of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus and was c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perronne CM,Malinverni R,Glauser MP

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba is a free-living amoeba causing a potentially blinding infection of the cornea. Contact lens wearers are most at risk and account for some 95% of cases. Hydrogen peroxide is used for contact lens disinfection due to its broad antimicrobial activity. Lenses must be neutralized before use to avoid pronounce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hughes R,Kilvington S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that penicillin resistance of bacteria is mainly caused by the inactivation of penicillin by penicillinase derived from such strains. We have developed a screening procedure for penicillinase inhibitors. Several microorganisms were found to produce such inhibitors, and from the culture filtrate of Streptom...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Iwai Y,Ono H,Takeshima H,Yamaguchi N,Omura S

更新日期：1973-09-01 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

abstract：:In vitro susceptibility of 933 Candida isolates, from 16 French hospitals, to micafungin was determined using the Etest in each center. All isolates were then sent to a single center for determination of MICs by the EUCAST reference method. Overall essential agreement between the two tests was 98.5% at ±2 log2 dilutio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bougnoux ME,Dannaoui E,Accoceberry I,Angoulvant A,Bailly E,Botterel F,Chevrier S,Chouaki T,Cornet M,Dalle F,Datry A,Dupuis A,Fekkar A,Gangneux JP,Guitard J,Hennequin C,Le Govic Y,Le Pape P,Maubon D,Ranque S,Sautou

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic bleomycin stimulates deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis in toluene-treated Escherichia coli cells. The increase in synthesis is linear with bleomycin concentration. Bleomycin-stimulated DNA synthesis is independent of replication and dependent on DNA polymerase I. Replication is spared as the DNA pol...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ross SL,Moses RE

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying and understanding potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are vital for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. This article discusses DDIs between doravirine, a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), and cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A) substrates and drugs that m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khalilieh SG,Yee KL,Sanchez RI,Fan L,Anderson MS,Sura M,Laethem T,Rasmussen S,van Bortel L,van Lancker G,Iwamoto M

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of newer macrolides in acute Q fever for 113 patients was recorded. The mean times to defervescence were 2.9 days for doxycycline and 3.3, 3.9, 3.9, and 6.4 days for clarithromycin, roxithromycin, erythromycin, and beta-lactams, respectively (P < 0.01 for macrolides versus beta-lactams). We conclude ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gikas A,Kofteridis DP,Manios A,Pediaditis J,Tselentis Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro interactions of ciprofloxacin with imipenem and amikacin were evaluated by the killing-curve technique against 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains resistant to amikacin and resistant or moderately susceptible to ciprofloxacin and imipenem. Imipenem enhanced killing by ciprofloxacin in tests with 11 strains, whe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giamarellou H,Petrikkos G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysostaphin is an endopeptidase that kills Staphylococcus aureus, a predominant organism in catheter-related infections. Lysostaphin-coated catheters prevented catheter colonization by several strains of S. aureus, and activity was maintained for at least 4 days. Prophylactic use of lysostaphin in catheters may help p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shah A,Mond J,Walsh S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is responsible for a global pandemic. New drugs are needed that do not show cross-resistance with the existing front-line therapeutics. A triazine antitubercular hit led to the design of a related pyrimidine family. The synthesis of a focused series of these analogs facilitated exp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Inoyama D,Paget SD,Russo R,Kandasamy S,Kumar P,Singleton E,Occi J,Tuckman M,Zimmerman MD,Ho HP,Perryman AL,Dartois V,Connell N,Freundlich JS

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of various test meals and fluid volumes on the relative bioavailability of commercial formulations of doxycycline hyclate and tetracycline hydrochloride was studied in healthy human volunteers. Serum levels of tetracycline were uniformly reduced by approximately 50% by all test meals, whereas serum level...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Welling PG,Koch PA,Lau CC,Craig WA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penetration of cefprozil into the middle ear fluid was investigated in patients with chronic otitis media. A total of 89 patients ranging from 7 months to 11 years old participated in the study. The middle ear fluid was removed by ventilation tubes inserted through the tympanic membrane at times ranging from 0.38 to 5...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shyu WC,Haddad J,Reilly J,Khan WN,Campbell DA,Tsai Y,Barbhaiya RH

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen clinical isolates of group C streptococci were tested for penicillin tolerance. Sixteen of the strains showed penicillin tolerance with a 32-fold or greater difference between the minimal inhibitory concentration and the minimal bactericidal concentration. Synergism was demonstrated with a combination of pen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Portnoy D,Prentis J,Richards GK

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial proteins and peptides (AMPs) are essential effectors of innate immunity, acting as a first line of defense against bacterial infections. Many AMPs exhibit high affinity for cell wall structures such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a potent endotoxin able to induce sepsis. Hence, understanding how AMPs can i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pulido D,Moussaoui M,Andreu D,Nogués MV,Torrent M,Boix E

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basis of bactericidal versus bacteriostatic action of antibiotics and the mechanism of bacterial cell death are largely unknown. Related to this important issue is the essential invulnerability to killing of persisters: cells forming a small subpopulation largely responsible for the recalcitrance of biofilms to ch...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaldalu N,Mei R,Lewis K

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxycycline is an alternative antibiotic drug for the treatment of syphilis, but data on its efficacy, especially data on its efficacy against late latent syphilis, are limited. A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of doxycycline for the treatment of patients with different stages of syphi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dai T,Qu R,Liu J,Zhou P,Wang Q

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ampicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, mecillinam, nitrofurantoin, and ciprofloxacin mean resistance rates for 2,000 urinary tract isolates collected from outpatients across Canada in 1998 were 41.1, 19.2, 14.7, 5.0, and 1.8%, respectively. For Escherichia coli isolates alone (n = 1,681) comparable rates were 41. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhanel GG,Karlowsky JA,Harding GK,Carrie A,Mazzulli T,Low DE,Hoban DJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of antibiotics in the last century is considered one of the most important achievements in the history of medicine. Antibiotic usage has significantly reduced morbidity and mortality associated with bacterial infections. However, inappropriate use of antibiotics has led to emergence of antibiotic resista...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ghosh D,Veeraraghavan B,Elangovan R,Vivekanandan P

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological heterogeneity of Aspergillus terreus cultures was observed during continued cultivation of amphotericin B (AMB)-resistant isolates on drug-free medium. Outgrowth leads to the emergence of multiple sectors that might result from increased growth rates at drug-free conditions. We evaluated the differences ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jukic E,Blatzer M,Binder U,Mayr L,Lass-Flörl C,Lackner M

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of bacteriophage therapy to treat infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria has now been well established using various animal models. While numerous newly isolated bacteriophages have been claimed to be potential therapeutic candidates on the basis of in vitro observations, the parameters used ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Henry M,Lavigne R,Debarbieux L

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00