Antimicrobial Treatment Provides a Competitive Advantage to Mycobacterium abscessus in a Dual-Species Biofilm with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms of resistance to fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, an aminocyclitol, macrolides, a lincosamide, a phenicol, and pleuromutilins were investigated in Mycoplasma bovis For the identification of mutations responsible for the high MICs of certain antibiotics, whole-genome sequencing of 35 M. bovis f...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sulyok KM,Kreizinger Z,Wehmann E,Lysnyansky I,Bányai K,Marton S,Jerzsele Á,Rónai Z,Turcsányi I,Makrai L,Jánosi S,Nagy SÁ,Gyuranecz M

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of investigating home therapy for enterococcal endocarditis, we compared the efficacy of teicoplanin combined with gentamicin given once a day or in three daily doses (t.i.d.) with the standard treatment, ampicillin plus gentamicin administered t.i.d., for treating experimental enterococcal endocarditis. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： López P,Gavaldà J,Martin MT,Almirante B,Gomis X,Azuaje C,Borrell N,Pou L,Falcó V,Pigrau C,Pahissa A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of tigecycline and selected antimicrobials were evaluated against a variety of multiple-drug-resistant clinical isolates, including extended-spectrum beta-lactamase- and/or metallo-beta-lactamase-producing gram-negative strains, colistin-resistant strains, vancomycin- and/or linezolid-resistant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Souli M,Kontopidou FV,Koratzanis E,Antoniadou A,Giannitsioti E,Evangelopoulou P,Kannavaki S,Giamarellou H

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violacein is a violet pigment extracted from the gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium violaceum. It presents bactericidal, tumoricidal, trypanocidal, and antileishmanial activities. We show that micromolar concentrations efficiently killed chloroquine-sensitive and -resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains in vitro;...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lopes SC,Blanco YC,Justo GZ,Nogueira PA,Rodrigues FL,Goelnitz U,Wunderlich G,Facchini G,Brocchi M,Duran N,Costa FT

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey carried out in 2005 among members of a healthy population of children living in Bolivia and Peru revealed that fecal carriage of Escherichia coli strains resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins was remarkably increased compared to that observed in the same settings in 2002 (1.7% in 2005 versus 0.1% in 2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pallecchi L,Bartoloni A,Fiorelli C,Mantella A,Di Maggio T,Gamboa H,Gotuzzo E,Kronvall G,Paradisi F,Rossolini GM

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The participation of trypanothione in clinical and experimental antimony (Sb) resistance in Leishmania panamensis was examined by using specific inhibitors. Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) significantly reversed the resistance to trivalent Sb (Sb(III)) of promastigotes of experimentally derived Sb-resistant lines, suppor...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goyeneche-Patino DA,Valderrama L,Walker J,Saravia NG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the pharmacokinetics and interactions of steady-state micafungin (Mycamine) or placebo with steady-state voriconazole in 35 volunteers. The 90% confidence intervals around the least-squares mean ratios for micafungin pharmacokinetic parameters and placebo-corrected voriconazole pharmacokinetic parameters w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Keirns J,Sawamoto T,Holum M,Buell D,Wisemandle W,Alak A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative evaluation of daptomycin and eight other antimicrobial agents was performed by the agar dilution technique with 56 strains of vancomycin-resistant gram-positive bacteria, including Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus spp. Erythromycin, deptomycin, clindamycin, and gentamicin exhibited the greates...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de la Maza L,Ruoff KL,Ferraro MJ

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:The Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) is a group of bacterial pathogens that are highly antibiotic resistant and associated with debilitating respiratory infections. Although bacteriophages of the BCC have been isolated and characterized, no studies have yet examined phage therapy against the BCC in vivo. In a caterp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seed KD,Dennis JJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piperacillin and vancomycin were used as initial empirical therapy for 211 febrile episodes in cancer patients. The response rate in 95 episodes of documented infection was 72%. The response of bacteremias, soft tissue infections, and pneumonias was 78, 71, and 38%, respectively. The response in infections caused by g...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jadeja L,Bolivar R,Fainstein V,Keating M,McCredie K,Hay M,Bodey GP

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide phosphonates cidofovir (CDV) and cyclic cidofovir (cCDV) are potent antiviral compounds when administered parenterally but are not well absorbed orally. These compounds have been reported to have activity against orthopoxvirus replication in vitro and in animal models when administered parenterally or b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kern ER,Hartline C,Harden E,Keith K,Rodriguez N,Beadle JR,Hostetler KY

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of this study was to develop a standardized experimental assay to enable differential antimicrobial comparisons of test biocidal aerosols. This study represents the first chlorine-matched comparative assessment of the antimicrobial activities of aerosolized sodium hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, and elect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thorn RM,Robinson GM,Reynolds DM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generation of pharmacodynamic relationships in the clinical arena requires estimation of pharmacokinetic parameter values for individual patients. When the target population is severely ill, the ability to obtain traditional intensive blood sampling schedules is curtailed. Population modeling guided by optimal samplin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tam VH,Preston SL,Drusano GL

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-β-lactamase-inhibitor effect (PBLIE) of tazobactam combined with ceftolozane was evaluated by time-kill assays on two clinical Escherichia coli strains producing CTX-M-15 with or without TEM-1. The organisms were exposed (2 h) to 4 μg/ml/4 μg/ml of ceftolozane-tazobactam (4× MIC), 4 μg/ml of ceftolozane, and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sader HS,Rhomberg PR,Jones RN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyene antifungal amphotericin B (AmB) is widely used to treat life-threatening fungal infections. Even though AmB resistance is exceptionally rare in fungi, most Aspergillus terreus isolates exhibit an intrinsic resistance against the drug in vivo and in vitro. Heat shock proteins perform a fundamental protectiv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blatzer M,Blum G,Jukic E,Posch W,Gruber P,Nagl M,Binder U,Maurer E,Sarg B,Lindner H,Lass-Flörl C,Wilflingseder D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of clinical enterococcal isolates resistant to both ampicillin and vancomycin is a cause of great concern, as there are few therapeutic alternatives for treatment of infections caused by such organisms. We evaluated the effects of the combination of ampicillin with vancomycin against vancomycin-resistant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cercenado E,Eliopoulos GM,Wennersten CB,Moellering RC Jr

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:GSQ1530 is a compound derived from a newly identified class of antibiotics referred to as heteroaromatic polycyclic (HARP) antibiotics. The aim of this study was to assess the in vitro antimicrobial activity of GSQ1530. By using an NCCLS broth microdilution assay, the activities of GSQ1530 and other antibiotics were c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ge Y,Difuntorum S,Touami S,Critchley I,Bürli R,Jiang V,Drazan K,Moser H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A portion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene encoding the beta subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB) was amplified by PCR using degenerate oligonucleotides and used as a hybridization probe to isolate plasmid clones carrying the entire rpoB gene of M. tuberculosis H37Rv, a virulent, rifampin-susceptible strain. Sequenc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Miller LP,Crawford JT,Shinnick TM

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluconazole, an inhibitor of certain human cytochrome P-450 isozymes, is used for the prevention and treatment of a broad range of fungal infections that predominantly affect immunocompromised individuals. This study evaluated the influence of fluconazole on the steady-state pharmacokinetics of delavirdine, a nonnucle...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Borin MT,Cox SR,Herman BD,Carel BJ,Anderson RD,Freimuth WW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus is increasingly recognized as an emerging opportunistic pathogen causing severe lung diseases. As it is intrinsically resistant to most conventional antibiotics, there is an unmet medical need for effective treatments. Repurposing of clinically validated pharmaceuticals represents an attractive...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Johansen MD,Daher W,Roquet-Banères F,Raynaud C,Alcaraz M,Maurer FP,Kremer L

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxins are increasingly used as a last-resort class of antibiotics against extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Gram-negative bacteria. However, resistance to polymyxins can emerge with monotherapy. As nephrotoxicity is the major dose-limiting factor for polymyxin monotherapy, dose escalation to suppress the emergence...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lin YW,Yu HH,Zhao J,Han ML,Zhu Y,Akter J,Wickremasinghe H,Walpola H,Wirth V,Rao GG,Forrest A,Velkov T,Li J

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cefotaxime, a new semisynthetic, broad-spectrum cephalosporin, in the therapy of community-and hospital-acquired pneumonias. Thirty-nine males (mean age, 65 years) were treated for 41 episodes of pneumonia. Only five patient did not have a serious un...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schleupner CJ,Engle JC

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins are small cationic bactericidal peptides present abundantly in the granules of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). Human PMNs contain four defensins termed HNP-1 to HNP-4. We used a new assay system in agar plates, the radial diffusion assay, to evaluate the effects of human defensins against gram-positive...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takemura H,Kaku M,Kohno S,Hirakata Y,Tanaka H,Yoshida R,Tomono K,Koga H,Wada A,Hirayama T,Kamihira S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apicomplexan parasites Cryptosporidium and Toxoplasma are serious threats to human health. Cryptosporidiosis is a severe diarrheal disease in malnourished children and immunocompromised individuals, with the only FDA-approved drug treatment currently being nitazoxanide. The existing therapies for toxoplasmosis, an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Palencia A,Liu RJ,Lukarska M,Gut J,Bougdour A,Touquet B,Wang ED,Li X,Alley MR,Freund YR,Rosenthal PJ,Hakimi MA,Cusack S

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Propolis, a resinous bee product, has been shown to inhibit the growth of oral microorganisms and the activity of bacterium-derived glucosyltransferases (GTFs). Several compounds, mainly polyphenolics, have been identified in this natural product. The present study evaluated the effects of distinct chemical groups fou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koo H,Rosalen PL,Cury JA,Park YK,Bowen WH

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibiotic-producing pseudomonad was isolated from a seawater sample from a La Jolla, Calif., tidepool. The pseudomonad produces two novel antibacterial compounds, 2-n-pentyl-4-quinolinol and 2-n-heptyl-4-quinolinol. It also synthesizes indole-3-carboxaldehyde, 6-bromoindole-3-carboxaldehyde, and the known antibiot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wratten SJ,Wolfe MS,Andersen RJ,Faulkner DJ

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide antibiotics are used as anti-inflammatory agents, e.g., for prevention of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis. Several studies have shown improved outcomes after the addition of macrolides to β-lactam antibiotics for treatment of severe community-acquired pneumonia. How...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kasetty G,Bhongir RKV,Papareddy P,Herwald H,Egesten A

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of coinfection with malaria and HIV is a major challenge to public health in developing countries, and yet potential drug-drug interactions between antimalarial and antiviral regimens have not been adequately investigated in people with both infections. Each of the constituent components of artemether-lumef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chijioke-Nwauche I,van Wyk A,Nwauche C,Beshir KB,Kaur H,Sutherland CJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00