Synergistic activity between vancomycin or teicoplanin and gentamicin or tobramycin against pathogenic diphtheroids.

abstract：:Curcumin, a principal component of turmeric, acts as an immunomodulator regulating the host defenses in response to a diseased condition. The role of curcumin in controlling certain infectious diseases is highly controversial. It is known to alleviate symptoms of Helicobacter pylori infection and exacerbate that of Le...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marathe SA,Sen M,Dasgupta I,Chakravortty D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a cosmopolitan protozoan parasite which affects approximately 30% of the population worldwide. The drugs currently used against toxoplasmosis are few in number and show several limitations, such as drug intolerance, poor bioavailability, or drug resistance mechanism developed by the parasite. Thus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spalenka J,Escotte-Binet S,Bakiri A,Hubert J,Renault JH,Velard F,Duchateau S,Aubert D,Huguenin A,Villena I

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Moxalactam (LY127935) exhibited greater in vitro activity than cefamandole and tobramycin against clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, Aeromonas hydrophila, and Pseudomonas maltophilia. The activities of the three drugs against other microorganisms were as follows: for staphylococci, cefamandole = tobramycin great...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones RN,Fuchs PC,Sommers HM,Gavan TL,Barry AL,Gerlach EH

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum has the capacity to escape the actions of essentially all antimalarial drugs. ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter proteins are known to cause multidrug resistance in a large range of organisms, including the Apicomplexa parasites. P. falciparum genome analysis has revealed two genes coding for...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Veiga MI,Osório NS,Ferreira PE,Franzén O,Dahlstrom S,Lum JK,Nosten F,Gil JP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to macrolides and ketolides occurs mainly via alterations in RNA moieties of the drug-binding site. Using an A2058G mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis, additional telithromycin resistance was acquired via deletion of 15 residues from protein L22. Molecular modeling, based on the crystal structure of the larg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berisio R,Corti N,Pfister P,Yonath A,Böttger EC

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：: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：:The Autobac I system was used to evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. The results of the Autobac I were compared with the results of the disk diffusion method. The disk diffusion susceptibility pattern showed resistance to methicillin/oxacillin, penici...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cleary TJ,Maurer D

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to fluoroquinolones (FQ) results mostly from mutations in the gyrA gene. We developed a reverse hybridization-based line probe assay in which oligonucleotide probes carrying the wild-type gyrA sequence, a serine-to-threonine (S95T) polymorphism, and gyrA mutations (A90V, A90V-S...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giannoni F,Iona E,Sementilli F,Brunori L,Pardini M,Migliori GB,Orefici G,Fattorini L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica strains with a nonclassical quinolone resistance phenotype were isolated from patients returning from Thailand or Malaysia to Finland. A total of 10 isolates of seven serovars were studied in detail, all of which had reduced susceptibility (MIC > or = 0.125 microg/ml) to ciprofloxacin ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gunell M,Webber MA,Kotilainen P,Lilly AJ,Caddick JM,Jalava J,Huovinen P,Siitonen A,Hakanen AJ,Piddock LJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The JAK-STAT pathway is activated in both macrophages and lymphocytes upon human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and thus represents an attractive cellular target to achieve HIV suppression and reduced inflammation, which may impact virus sanctuaries. Ruxolitinib and tofacitinib are JAK1/2 inhibitors t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gavegnano C,Detorio M,Montero C,Bosque A,Planelles V,Schinazi RF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SCCmec is a mobile genetic element that carries the gene (mecA) mediating methicillin resistance in staphylococci. For Staphylococcus aureus, four SCCmec types have been described, one (type IV) of which has been associated with newly identified community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus. However, the distribu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wisplinghoff H,Rosato AE,Enright MC,Noto M,Craig W,Archer GL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1891 Guttmann and Ehrlich (P. Guttmann and P. Ehrlich, Berlin Klin. Wochenschr. 28:953-956, 1891) were the first to report the antimalarial properties of a synthetic, rather than a natural, material when they described the clinical cure of two patients after oral administration of a thiazine dye, methylene blue. Si...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vennerstrom JL,Makler MT,Angerhofer CK,Williams JA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of clinical isolates of Moraxella catarrhalis produce beta-lactamase. The role of this enzyme in the phenomenon of indirect pathogenicity, in which a true pathogen such as Streptococcus pneumoniae is protected from the action of certain beta-lactam antibiotics, is well recognized. By using a simple contin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Budhani RK,Struthers JK

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, randomized, and double-blind study comparing teicoplanin with vancomycin in the initial management of febrile neutropenic patients was conducted. Teicoplanin was administered at 6 mg per kg of body weight every 24 h (q24h) intravenously (i.v.) after initial loading at 6 mg/kg q12h for three doses. Vanco...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kureishi A,Jewesson PJ,Rubinger M,Cole CD,Reece DE,Phillips GL,Smith JA,Chow AW

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage therapy of bacterial infections has received renewed attention owing to the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. A side effect of many antibiotics as well as of phage therapy with lytic phage is the release of cell wall components, e.g., endotoxins of gram-negative bacteria, which med...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hagens S,Habel A,von Ahsen U,von Gabain A,Bläsi U

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to probe the structure and function of the mycobacterial catalase-peroxidase enzyme (KatG), we employed a genetic approach using dominant-negative analysis of katG merodiploids. Transformation of Mycobacterium bovis BCG with various katG point mutants (expressed from low-copy-number plasmids) resulted in redu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： DeVito JA,Morris S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new commercial low-density microarray which identifies common extended-spectrum β-lactamase plasmid-mediated cephalosporinase genes, as well as carbapenemase (bla(KPC) and bla(NDM)) genes, was evaluated. We tested 207 clinical and reference/collection isolates of the Enterobacteriaceae possessing different bla genes...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bogaerts P,Hujer AM,Naas T,de Castro RR,Endimiani A,Nordmann P,Glupczynski Y,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates, especially those involving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America recommend the vancomycin 24-h area under the concentration-time curve to MIC ratio (AUC24/MIC) of >400 as the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tseng SH,Lim CP,Chen Q,Tang CC,Kong ST,Ho PC

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice treated with antibiotics early or late after active infection had resolved were examined for chlamydial DNA in endocervical swabs. The early eradication of infection limited oviduct pathology, despite the continued detection of chlamydial DNA by nested PCR. Late antibiotic treatment had no effect on the ability t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Reeves DM,Nagarajan U,O'Connell C,Andrews CW Jr,Darville T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the development of a prototype antibiotic sensitivity assay to detect drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis using infection by mycobacteriophage to create a novel nucleic acid transcript, a surrogate marker of mycobacterial viability, detected by reverse transcriptase PCR (M. C. Mulvey et al...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mulvey MC,Lemmon M,Rotter S,Lees J,Einck L,Nacy CA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo activities of imipenem, meropenem, and cefepime were studied in a model of rat pneumonia caused by a plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamase ACT-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strain (K. pneumoniae strain 12) and a derivative porin-deficient mutant (K. pneumoniae strain 12dp). No differences between these ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Padilla E,Alonso D,Doménech-Sánchez A,Gomez C,Pérez JL,Albertí S,Borrell N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of an antacid containing magnesium and aluminum hydroxide on the pharmacokinetics of pefloxacin in 10 healthy volunteers were investigated. In a randomized crossover design, each subject received an oral dose of 400 mg of pefloxacin either with or without multiple doses of the antacid. The concentrations o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jaehde U,Sörgel F,Stephan U,Schunack W

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide-resistant group A streptococci (MRGAS) have been recovered from many countries worldwide. However, the strain typing information that is available has been insufficient for estimating the total number of macrolide-resistant clones, their geographic distributions, and their evolutionary relationships. In this...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robinson DA,Sutcliffe JA,Tewodros W,Manoharan A,Bessen DE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cefodizime and cefuroxime on neutrophil phagocytosis and reactive oxygen production in 54 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting were studied. Both drugs were administered twice at a dosage of 40 mg/kg of body weight (pre- and intraoperative). Phagocytic capacity was assessed by me...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wenisch C,Bartunek A,Zedtwitz-Liebenstein K,Hiesmayr M,Parschalk B,Pernerstorfer T,Graninger W

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from cystic fibrosis patients after treatment with azithromycin were cross-resistant to azithromycin and erythromycin. None of the isolates contained erm or msr(A) genes, but they all carried either A2058G/U or A2059G mutations within the rrl genes, with a majority of the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Prunier AL,Malbruny B,Tandé D,Picard B,Leclercq R

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa detected only during ceftazidime therapy of cystic fibrosis patients was studied. Evaluation of resistant and susceptible isolates from one patient and resistant laboratory derivatives indicated that elevated beta-lactamase levels were the primary determinant of resista...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schryvers AB,Ogunariwo J,Chamberland S,Godfrey AJ,Rabin HR,Bryan LE

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional therapy for human cytomegalovirus (CMV) relies on inhibition of the viral DNA polymerase. Ganciclovir (GCV) is the first-line therapy, but when GCV-resistant strains emerge, alternative therapies are extremely limited and are associated with significant toxicities. Combination of anti-CMV agents that act ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cai H,Kapoor A,He R,Venkatadri R,Forman M,Posner GH,Arav-Boger R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mefloquine shows a high capacity to bind plasma proteins, which influences the amount of drug in erythrocytes. The study investigated the association of lipids levels with plasma concentrations of mefloquine and carboxy-mefloquine in 85 Brazilian patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria. There were no significan...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vieira JLF,Rivera JGB,de Sena LWP,Ferreira MVD

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of liposomal encapsulation of ampicillin on the antibacterial activity against intracellular Listeria monocytogenes was studied by comparing survival of L. monocytogenes within peritoneal mouse macrophages in the presence of free ampicillin alone or in combination with liposome-entrapped ampicillin. In the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bakker-Woudenberg IA,Lokerse AF,Vink-van den Berg JC,Roerdink FH,Michel MF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00