Aerosol amphotericin B is effective for prophylaxis and therapy in a rat model of pulmonary aspergillosis.

abstract：:WCK 5222 consists of cefepime combined with zidebactam, a bicyclo-acyl hydrazide β-lactam enhancer antibiotic with a dual action involving binding to Gram-negative bacterial PBP2 and β-lactamase inhibition. We evaluated the in vitro activity of cefepime-zidebactam against 7,876 contemporary (2015) clinical isolates of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

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

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid were compared with those of co-trimoxazole in the treatment of acute urinary tract infections. A total of 104 patients (mean age, 52 years) with clinical and laboratory evidence of acute urinary tract infection were enrolled in the study. Characteristics and infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Karachalios GN

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype (GT) 2 represents approximately 9% of all viral infections globally. While treatment outcomes for GT2-infected patients have improved substantially with direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) compared to interferon-α, the presence of polymorphisms in NS5A can impact efficacy of NS5A inh...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Asante-Appiah E,Ingravallo P,McMonagle P,Bystol K,Xia E,Curry S,Qiu P,Black S,Chase R,Liu R,Lahser F

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of mutations in the genes for GyrA and ParC in quinolone resistance in Mycoplasma hominis was studied. Selection with sparfloxacin gave mutations at GyrA83 (Ser-->Leu; Escherichia coli numbering) or GyrA87 (Glu-->Lys), and mutants had increased levels of resistance to sparfloxacin (8- to 16-fold) but not to o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kenny GE,Young PA,Cartwright FD,Sjöström KE,Huang WM

更新日期：1999-10-01 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

abstract：:Fusidic acid (FA), which was approved in the 1960s in many European and Asian countries, has gained renewed interest due to its continued effectiveness against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus As rhabdomyolysis has been reported upon coadministration of FA with statins, we aimed to elucidate the underlying ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gupta A,Harris JJ,Lin J,Bulgarelli JP,Birmingham BK,Grimm SW

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical properties of tetrahydrofuranyl (THF) carbapenems, carbapenems with THF substituents, were evaluated with respect to enzyme stability, binding to penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs), and penetration into gram-negative organisms. THF carbapenems showed increased stability to hog renal dehydropeptidases (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang Y,Testa RT,Bhachech N,Rasmussen BA,Bush K

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with lamivudine ([-]-beta-L-2',3'-dideoxy-3' thiacytidine) or famciclovir may select for viral mutants that are drug resistant due to point mutations in the polymerase gene. Determining whether such HBV mutants are sensitive to new antiviral agents is th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chin R,Shaw T,Torresi J,Sozzi V,Trautwein C,Bock T,Manns M,Isom H,Furman P,Locarnini S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthopoxvirus infections, such as smallpox, can lead to severe systemic disease and result in considerable morbidity and mortality in immunologically naïve individuals. Treatment with ST-246, a small-molecule inhibitor of virus egress, has been shown to provide protection against severe disease and death induced by se...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berhanu A,King DS,Mosier S,Jordan R,Jones KF,Hruby DE,Grosenbach DW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefamandole nafate, a new cephalosporin for parenteral use, was evaluated in vitro against 231 recent clinical isolates and in 12 patients. Cefamandole had activity equivalent to cefazolin against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Cefamandole was more active than cephalothin or cefazo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shemonsky NK,Carrizosa J,Levison ME

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triazoles are first-line agents for treating aspergillosis. The prevalence of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus is increasing, and cross-resistance is a growing concern. In this study, the susceptibilities of 40 A. fumigatus clinical isolates were tested by using the CLSI method with amphotericin B, itraconazo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gregson L,Goodwin J,Johnson A,McEntee L,Moore CB,Richardson M,Hope WW,Howard SJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefepime were studied in 12 adult patients in intensive care units during continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) or continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF) with a Multiflow60 AN69HF 0.60-m(2) polyacrylonitrile hollow-fiber membrane (Hospal Industrie, Meyzieu, France). Patients (me...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malone RS,Fish DN,Abraham E,Teitelbaum I

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of the need for new antifungal regimens, we report that at noncandidacidal concentrations, the lactoferrin-derived peptide hLF(1-11), which is highly active against fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans, acts synergistically with fluconazole against this yeast and a fluconazole-sensitive C. albicans strain a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lupetti A,Paulusma-Annema A,Welling MM,Dogterom-Ballering H,Brouwer CP,Senesi S,Van Dissel JT,Nibbering PH

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans releases a large glycofragment of the Msb2 surface protein (Msb2*) into the growth environment, which protects against the action of human antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) LL-37 and histatin-5. Quantitation of Msb2*/LL-37 interactions by microscale thermophoresis revealed high-a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swidergall M,Ernst AM,Ernst JF

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is generally believed that bactericidal and bacteriostatic drugs should not be combined in vivo, in vitro experiments using the checkerboard dilution technique revealed no antagonism between penicillin/cephalothin and rolitetracycline but rather additive or synergistic activity of either drug combination i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Daschner FD

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel beta-lactamase gene, blaOXA-61, from Campylobacter jejuni GC015 was cloned and its nucleotide sequence determined. blaOXA-61 encodes a protein of 257 amino acids in which the active-site STFK tetrad and conserved class D beta-lactamase motifs YGN and KTG were identified. A conserved sequence upstream of blaOXA...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Alfredson DA,Korolik V

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies using laboratory clones have demonstrated that several antiretroviral protease inhibitors (PIs) inhibit the growth of Plasmodium falciparum at concentrations that may be of clinical significance, especially during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and malaria coinfection. Using clinical isolat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lek-Uthai U,Suwanarusk R,Ruengweerayut R,Skinner-Adams TS,Nosten F,Gardiner DL,Boonma P,Piera KA,Andrews KT,Machunter B,McCarthy JS,Anstey NM,Price RN,Russell B

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Killing by beta-lactams is well known to be reduced against a dense bacterial population, commonly known as the inoculum effect. However, the underlying mechanism of this phenomenon is not well understood. We proposed a semi-mechanistic mathematical model to account for the reduced in vitro killing observed. Time-kill...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bhagunde P,Chang KT,Singh R,Singh V,Garey KW,Nikolaou M,Tam VH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paradoxical growth of some Candida isolates occurs at concentrations above the MIC for echinocandins. In 60 Candida bloodstream isolates from cancer patients (20 C. albicans isolates and 10 isolates each of C. parapsilosis, C. tropicalis, C. krusei, and C. glabrata), paradoxical growth was more frequent with caspofung...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chamilos G,Lewis RE,Albert N,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven clinical isolates of Shigella sonnei with reduced susceptibilities to fluoroquinolones (sparfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and ofloxacin) were obtained. The MICs of fluoroquinolones against these S. sonnei strains were 16 to 32 times higher than those obtained against typical strains that are highly susceptible to the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Horiuchi S,Inagaki Y,Yamamoto N,Okamura N,Imagawa Y,Nakaya R

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The report describes the establishment and characterization of a mouse xenograft transplantation model for the study of papillomavirus infection of bovine skin. Calf scrotal skin was inoculated with bovine papillomavirus type 2 before grafting it to the dorsum of severe combined immunodeficient mice. The grafted skin ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pawellek A,Hewlett G,Kreuter J,Rübsamen-Waigmann H,Weber O

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of luliconazole, amorolfine, ciclopirox, and terbinafine were determined against 320 dermatophyte isolates from large toenails of onychomycosis patients enrolled into an ongoing phase 2b/3 clinical study. The geometric mean MIC for luliconazole was 0.00022 μg/ml against all isolates, compared t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wiederhold NP,Fothergill AW,McCarthy DI,Tavakkol A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rezafungin (CD101) is a novel echinocandin under development for once-weekly intravenous (i.v.) dosing. We evaluated the pharmacodynamics (PD) of rezafungin against 4 Candida tropicalis and 4 Candida dubliniensis strains, using the neutropenic mouse invasive candidiasis model. The area under the concentration-time cur...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lepak AJ,Zhao M,Andes DR

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaborbactam (formerly RPX7009) is a new β-lactamase inhibitor based on a cyclic boronic acid pharmacophore with potent inhibitory activity against Klebsiella pneumoniaecarbapenemases (KPC). It has been developed in combination with meropenem. The objective of these studies was to identify the concentrations of both ag...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun D,Rubio-Aparicio D,Nelson K,Dudley MN,Lomovskaya O

更新日期：2017-11-22 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：:Positive carbon-containing electrodes conveying 5 or more microA of constant direct current per cm2 showed bactericidal activity on intact back skin of 13 human subjects. This effect increased with the duration of stimulation up to a total surface bacterial kill at 20 h. When total current and current density were var...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bolton L,Foleno B,Means B,Petrucelli S

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During HIV-1 reverse transcription, there are increasing opportunities for nucleos(t)ide (NRTI) or nonnucleoside (NNRTI) reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors to stop elongation of the nascent viral DNA (vDNA). In addition, RT inhibitors appear to influence the kinetics of vDNA synthesis differently. While cell-free k...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Abram ME,Tsiang M,White KL,Callebaut C,Miller MD

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of calcium-deficient apatite loaded with different concentrations (25, 100, and 500 microg/mg) of vancomycin as a filling biomaterial were evaluated in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rabbit acute osteomyelitis model. Bacterial counts in bone, bone marrow, and joint fl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Amador G,Gautier H,Le Mabecque V,Miegeville AF,Potel G,Bouler JM,Weiss P,Caillon J,Jacqueline C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00