Inhibition of Fatty Acid Oxidation as a New Target To Treat Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis.

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum arginine aminopeptidase (RAP) was studied during in vitro excystation. Specific RAP inhibitors were identified by using C. parvum extracts. Amastatin, a series of alpha-aminoboronic acids, and the chelating agents EDTA and 1,10-phenanthrolene, but not endoproteinase inhibitors, blocked enzymatic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Okhuysen PC,Chappell CL,Kettner C,Sterling CR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in the incidence of rare but hard-to-treat invasive fungal pathogens as well as resistance to the currently available antifungal drugs calls for new broad-spectrum antifungals with a novel mechanism of action. Here we report the identification and characterization of two novel zinc-attenuating compounds, Z...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cohrt KAO,Marín L,Kjellerup L,Clausen JD,Dalby-Brown W,Calera JA,Winther AL

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections in young children and other high-risk populations. RSV nucleoprotein (N) is essential for virus assembly and replication as part of the viral ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex. RSV604 was a putative N inhibitor in phase 2 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Challa S,Scott AD,Yuzhakov O,Zhou Y,Tiong-Yip CL,Gao N,Thresher J,Yu Q

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daptomycin is an investigational lipopeptide antibiotic active against gram-positive organisms. The mechanism of action is unique, resulting in interference with cell membrane transport. The bactericidal activity of daptomycin was evaluated against glycopeptide-intermediate susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (GISA), va...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Akins RL,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the biguanide-based compound NB325 inhibits human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection by interacting with the CXCR4 viral coreceptor. This interaction also appeared to be persistent, since HIV-1 infection was inhibited even when the virus was introduced subsequent to the rem...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thakkar N,Pirrone V,Passic S,Keogan S,Zhu W,Kholodovych V,Welsh W,Rando R,Labib M,Wigdahl B,Krebs FC

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and metabolism of 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) were investigated in rhesus monkeys after subcutaneous administration of 33.3 mg of AZT per kg of body weight alone or in the presence of 100 mg of probenecid per kg. In addition to unchanged drug, two catabolites, 5'-O-glucuronide (GAZT) and 3'-a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cretton EM,Schinazi RF,McClure HM,Anderson DC,Sommadossi JP

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the ultrastructural alterations induced during the proliferative stages of Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas' disease, by two ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitors, ketoconazole and terbinafine, which had previously been shown to be potent growth inhibitors whose effects are pote...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lazardi K,Urbina JA,de Souza W

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both scid and BALB/c mouse-Leishmania donovani models, hexadecyphosphocholine (miltefosine) and AmBisome had similar levels of activity. In contrast, sodium stibogluconate (Pentostam) was significantly less active against L. donovani in scid mice than in BALB/c mice. The in vitro anti-leishmanial activity of miltef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escobar P,Yardley V,Croft SL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tilorone hydrochloride characteristically induces an unusually delayed and prolonged interferon response not commonly associated with other synthetic inducers. Maximum circulating interferon levels of 8,000 to 10,000 units/ml were detected 12 hr postinoculation and persisted for up to 30 hr after administration of til...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stringfellow DA,Glasgow LA

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During its intraerythrocytic phase, the most lethal human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, digests host cell hemoglobin as a source of some of the amino acids required for its own protein synthesis. A number of parasite endopeptidases (including plasmepsins and falcipains) process the globin into small peptid...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cunningham E,Drag M,Kafarski P,Bell A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the susceptibility of the murine gamma herpesvirus 68 (MHV-68) to a variety of antiviral agents. The acyclic nucleoside phosphonate analogs cidofovir [(S)-1-(3-hydroxy-2-phosphonylmethoxypropyl) cytosine], (S)-1-(3-hydroxy-2-phosphonylmethoxypropyl)adenine (HPMPA), and adefovir [9-(2-phosphonylmethox...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neyts J,De Clercq E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emtricitabine (FTC) is approved for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus. FTC and clevudine (CLV) have activity against hepatitis B virus (HBV). This report summarizes the results of a double-blind, multicenter study of patients with chronic hepatitis B who had completed a phase 3 study of FTC and were random...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lim SG,Krastev Z,Ng TM,Mechkov G,Kotzev IA,Chan S,Mondou E,Snow A,Sorbel J,Rousseau F

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro interactions between bismuth subcitrate and a variety of antimicrobial agents against 12 Campylobacter pyloridis (C. pylori) isolates were studied by the agar dilution checkerboard technique. The combination of bismuth subcitrate with the older quinolone, oxolinic acid, produced synergistic activity again...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Caekenberghe DL,Breyssens J

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of micafungin dose scheduling on the treatment of candidemia is unknown. Neutropenic mice with disseminated Candida glabrata infection were treated with single intraperitoneal micafungin doses of 0 to 100 mg/kg of body weight and sacrificed 7 days later. The maximal decline in kidney fungal burden was 5.8 l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gumbo T,Drusano GL,Liu W,Kulawy RW,Fregeau C,Hsu V,Louie A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic tolerances of bacterial persisters have been attributed to transient dormancy. While persisters have been observed to be growth inhibited prior to antibiotic exposure, we sought to determine whether such a trait was essential to the phenotype. Furthermore, we sought to provide direct experimental eviden...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Orman MA,Brynildsen MP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:lacZ fusion strains were constructed using the promoters of five cell wall stress stimulon genes: pbp2, tcaA, vraSR, sgtB, and lytR. All fusion strains were induced only in the presence of cell wall-active antibiotics, suggesting the potential of these strains for use in high-throughput screening for new cell wall-act...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Steidl R,Pearson S,Stephenson RE,Ledala N,Sitthisak S,Wilkinson BJ,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacteriaceae producing the Ambler class D OXA-48 carbapenemase, combined with additional resistance mechanisms, such as permeability defects or cocarriage of class A, B, or C β-lactamases, can become highly resistant to most β-lactams currently in use, including carbapenems. A total of 45,872 Enterobacteriaceae ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kazmierczak KM,Bradford PA,Stone GG,de Jonge BLM,Sahm DF

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of voriconazole in 107 patients with scedosporiosis was analyzed. Principal infection sites were the lungs/sinuses (24%), central nervous system (CNS) (20%), and bone (18%), while 21% of patients had disseminated infection. Solid organ transplantation (22%), hematological malignancy (21%), and surgery/tra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Troke P,Aguirrebengoa K,Arteaga C,Ellis D,Heath CH,Lutsar I,Rovira M,Nguyen Q,Slavin M,Chen SC,Global Scedosporium Study Group.

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MICs of three new antimicrobial agents of different classes, U-70138F, roxithromycin (RU 965), and ofloxacin (ORF 18489), versus Chlamydia trachomatis in McCoy cell cultures were 0.25, 0.8, and 1.0 microgram/ml, respectively. For each test drug, the MIC and MBC were identical or were within 1 dilution of one anoth...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stamm WE,Suchland R

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between February and June of 1997, a large number of community-acquired respiratory tract isolates of Haemophilus influenzae (n = 1,077) and Moraxella catarrhalis (n = 503) from 27 U.S. and 7 Canadian medical centers were characterized as part of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program. Overall prevalences of be...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Doern GV,Jones RN,Pfaller MA,Kugler K

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gyrA and gyrB genes of Chlamydia pneumoniae TW-183 were cloned, and their proteins were purified by use of a fusion system with a maltose-binding protein. The 50% inhibitory concentrations of garenoxacin, sparfloxacin, moxifloxacin, gatifloxacin, and levofloxacin were 10.1, 47.5, 39.6, 64.2, and 156.9 microg/ml, r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ameyama S,Shinmura Y,Takahata M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A promising modified sugar molecule was identified which was active against multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, suggesting involvement of a new target. The compound was demonstrated to be bactericidal, inhibited the growth of M. tuberculosis in mice, and targeted alpha-mannosidase as a com...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kashyap V,Sharma S,Singh V,Sharma SK,Saquib M,Srivastava R,Shaw AK

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:In this study, our objective was to determine whether a synergistic antimicrobial combination in vitro would be beneficial in the downregulation of pneumococcal virulence genes and whether the associated inflammation of the lung tissue induced by multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in vivo needs to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Majhi A,Adhikary R,Bhattacharyya A,Mahanti S,Bishayi B

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:We sought to determine whether there was an interaction between aminoglycoside use and shock in their effect on renal function among seriously ill patients suspected of having gram-negative sepsis. Serial serum creatinine determinations were used to estimate changes in creatinine clearance rates in 179 patients entere...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ambinder RF,Moore RD,Smith CR,Mellits ED,Lietman PS

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococci are the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. Increasingly, they resist antibiotic treatment owing to the development of multiple antibiotic resistance mechanisms in most strains. Therefore, the activity and efficacy of recombinant lysostaphin as a drug against this pathogen have been ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hertlein T,Sturm V,Lorenz U,Sumathy K,Jakob P,Ohlsen K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied eight strains of Escherichia coli resistant to high levels of trimethoprim that were isolated over a 6-week period in a commercial breeding flock of broilers. The strains originated from fecal samples and from a carcass immediately after slaughter. Seven of eight strains belonged to the same infrequent biot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chaslus-Dancla E,Gerbaud G,Lagorce M,Lafont JP,Courvalin P

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 621 clinical isolates of Haemophilus influenzae collected in Japan between 1995 and 2003 were studied for their susceptibilities to several antimicrobial agents, beta-lactamase production, and amino acid substitutions in penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP 3). Over the four study periods (first period, 1995 t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sanbongi Y,Suzuki T,Osaki Y,Senju N,Ida T,Ubukata K

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foscarnet (phosphonoformic acid) is a pyrophosphate analog that inhibits the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in vitro and in patients with AIDS. HIV-1 resistance to foscarnet has not been reported despite long-term foscarnet therapy of AIDS patients with cytomegalovirus disease. We therefore...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mellors JW,Bazmi HZ,Schinazi RF,Roy BM,Hsiou Y,Arnold E,Weir J,Mayers DL

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00