A Cationic Polymer That Shows High Antifungal Activity against Diverse Human Pathogens.

abstract：:The in vitro activity of the aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase type Ib [AAC(6')-Ib] was inhibited by CuCl2 with a 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 2.8 μM. The growth of an amikacin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain isolated from a neonate with meningitis was inhibited when amikacin was supplemented by t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chiem K,Fuentes BA,Lin DL,Tran T,Jackson A,Ramirez MS,Tolmasky ME

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with AIDS and chronic diarrhea caused by Enterocytozoon bieneusi was successfully treated with nitazoxanide, producing a complete clinical and parasitological response, while off of antiviral therapy. This suggests that nitazoxanide may be effective in treating microsporidiosis caused by E. bieneusi, a disea...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bicart-Sée A,Massip P,Linas MD,Datry A

更新日期：2000-01-01 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 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：:Treatment of Mycobacterium abscessus infections is extremely challenging due to its intrinsic resistance to most antibiotics, and research of pathogenesis is limited due to a lack of a practical in vivo model of infection. The objective of this study was to establish a simple in vivo model for M. abscessus infection, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meir M,Grosfeld T,Barkan D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of ceftazidime-avibactam, ceftolozane-tazobactam, and comparators were evaluated for 733 isolates displaying resistance to broad-spectrum cephalosporins and carrying extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) genes detected by whole-genome sequencing analysis. Isolates were collected during 2017 in U.S. hospi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Castanheira M,Doyle TB,Mendes RE,Sader HS

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Histatin 5 (Hst 5) is a salivary human antimicrobial peptide that is toxic to the opportunistic yeast Candida albicans. Fungicidal activity of Hst 5 requires intracellular translocation and accumulation to a threshold concentration for it to disrupt cellular processes. Previously, we observed that total cytosolic leve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li R,Kumar R,Tati S,Puri S,Edgerton M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of probenecid on the pharmacokinetics and renal clearance of acyclovir were studied in humans. Acyclovir (5 mg/kg) was given as a 1-h infusion to three volunteers with normal renal function both before and after oral administration of probenecid (1 g). The kinetics were well described by a two-compartment ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Laskin OL,de Miranda P,King DH,Page DA,Longstreth JA,Rocco L,Lietman PS

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the rifampin resistance-determining (Rif) regions of the rpoB gene of Staphylococcus aureus mutants obtained during therapy or in vitro were analyzed by gene amplification and sequencing. Each of the resistant clinical isolates, including five nonrelated clones and two strains isolated from the same patie...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aubry-Damon H,Soussy CJ,Courvalin P

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of proflavine (PF)-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli B were also resistant to penicillin and cephalothin. Mutants resistant to 1.0 mM PF were 10 times more penicillin resistant than were the PF-susceptible, wild-type cells. Single-step mutants selected for resistance to either PF or penicillin were also r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McKellar RC,McKenzie CN,Kushner KJ

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are effective antibiotic agents commonly found in plants, animals, and microorganisms, and they have been suggested as the future of antimicrobial chemotherapies. It is vital to understand the molecular details that define the mechanism of action of resistance to AMPs for a rational plann...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maria-Neto S,Cândido Ede S,Rodrigues DR,de Sousa DA,da Silva EM,de Moraes LM,Otero-Gonzalez Ade J,Magalhães BS,Dias SC,Franco OL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered 1 g of imipenem along with equal amounts of cilastatin (a dehydropeptidase I inhibitor) or 2 g of moxalactam intravenously over a period of 30 min to six volunteers in a crossover manner 1 week apart. The antibiotic concentrations and pharmacokinetics for each drug were determined and integrated with t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Standiford HC,Drusano GL,Bustamante CI,Rivera G,Forrest A,Tatem B,Leslie J,Moody M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the isolation of 31 Acinetobacter baumannii strains producing OXA-253 in a single large Brazilian city. These strains belonged to five different sequence types (STs), including 4 STs not previously associated with blaOXA-253 In all strains, the blaOXA-253 gene was located in a plasmid within a genetic ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Sá Cavalcanti FL,Mendes-Marques CL,Vasconcelos CR,de Lima Campos T,Rezende AM,Xavier DE,Leal NC,de-Melo-Neto OP,de Morais MM,Leal-Balbino TC

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P450 enzyme-encoding genes rosC and rosD were cloned from the rosamicin biosynthetic gene cluster of Micromonospora rosaria IFO13697. The functions of RosC and RosD were demonstrated by gene disruption and complementation with M. rosaria and bioconversion of rosamicin biosynthetic intermediates with Esc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Iizaka Y,Higashi N,Ishida M,Oiwa R,Ichikawa Y,Takeda M,Anzai Y,Kato F

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, susceptibilities were determined for AZD0914, a spiropyrimidinetrione DNA gyrase inhibitor, azithromycin, doxycycline, and levofloxacin against Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma species. The activity of AZD0914 was comparable to that of levofloxacin and doxycycline against Mycoplasma genitalium and Mycoplasma p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Waites KB,Crabb DM,Duffy LB,Huband MD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethoprim resistance dihydrofolate reductase genes from plasmids known to be exchanging between human and animal populations were mapped. The dihydrofolate reductase gene has been highly conserved in all plasmids, but differences in the flanking regions provide evidence that the most recent exchange of plasmids bet...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Campbell IG,Mee BJ

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of these studies was to evaluate the exposures of meropenem and vaborbactam that would produce antibacterial activity and prevent resistance development in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae strains when tested at an inoculum of 108 CFU/ml. Thirtee...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sabet M,Tarazi Z,Rubio-Aparicio D,Nolan TG,Parkinson J,Lomovskaya O,Dudley MN,Griffith DC

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with newly diagnosed cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis were treated with an induction regimen of intravenous foscarnet, 60 mg/kg of body weight, administered as a 2-h infusion and repeated every 8 h for 14 days. At the end of induction, 9 of 10 patients had stabilized...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jacobson MA,O'Donnell JJ,Mills J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary studies showed that roxithromycin possessed significant in vitro activity against a variety of atypical mycobacteria such as the Mycobacterium avium complex, M. scrofulaceum, M. szulgai, M. malmoense, M. xenopi, M. marinum, and M. kansasii and rare pathogens such as M. chelonae and M. fortuitum. In this in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rastogi N,Goh KS,Bryskier A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of growth inhibition of Escherichia coli by thioglycerol was probed. The extent of growth inhibition depended on the ratio of thioglycerol to initial cell concentration. Exogenously added methionine and several methionine analogues reversed the inhibition of 2 to 40 mM thioglycerol. Exposure to thioglyce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Javor GT

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isavuconazole, the active moiety of the prodrug isavuconazonium sulfate, has potent activity against a wide spectrum of fungal pathogens and is approved for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis, yet little is known about the tissue penetration of isavuconazole at the target sites of infection. Here, we explored the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee A,Prideaux B,Lee MH,Zimmerman M,Dolgov E,Perlin DS,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoniazid (INH) remains the most safe and cost-effective drug for the treatment and prophylaxis of tuberculosis. The use of INH has increased over the past years, largely as a result of the coepidemic of human immunodeficiency virus infection. It is frequently given chronically to critically ill patients who are copre...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Desta Z,Soukhova NV,Flockhart DA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic peptides with an even number of alternating d,l-alpha-amino acid residues are known to self-assemble into organic nanotubes. Such peptides previously have been shown to be stable upon protease treatment, membrane active, and bactericidal and to exert antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and othe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dartois V,Sanchez-Quesada J,Cabezas E,Chi E,Dubbelde C,Dunn C,Granja J,Gritzen C,Weinberger D,Ghadiri MR,Parr TR Jr

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of 1,203 Escherichia coli isolates from 44 hospitals in Taiwan revealed that 136 (11.3%) isolates were resistant to fluoroquinolones and that another 261 (21.7%) isolates had reduced susceptibility. Resistance was more common in isolates responsible for hospital-acquired (mostly in intensive care units) infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McDonald LC,Chen FJ,Lo HJ,Yin HC,Lu PL,Huang CH,Chen P,Lauderdale TL,Ho M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) is the most common mechanism of carbapenem resistance in the United States; however, until now, KPC-producing isolates have not been found in western Michigan. Molecular typing of two KPC-producing K. pneumoniae isolates from Michigan showed their similarity to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitchel B,Sundin DR,Patel JB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a prospective, randomized comparison of oral ciprofloxacin with standard parenteral therapies for the treatment of biopsy-proven osteomyelitis caused by susceptible organisms. Following surgical debridement, the ciprofloxacin patients received 750 mg twice a day, and the other patients received a broad-sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gentry LO,Rodriguez GG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azithromycin is an effective treatment for uncomplicated infections with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and serovar Paratyphi A (enteric fever), but there are no clinically validated MIC and disk zone size interpretative guidelines. We studied individual patient data from three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parry CM,Thieu NT,Dolecek C,Karkey A,Gupta R,Turner P,Dance D,Maude RR,Ha V,Tran CN,Thi PL,Be BP,Phi LT,Ngoc RN,Ghose A,Dongol S,Campbell JI,Thanh DP,Thanh TH,Moore CE,Sona S,Gaind R,Deb M,Anh HV,Van SN,

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptosporidium parvum, members of the phylum Apicomplexa, are significant pathogens of both humans and animals worldwide for which new and effective therapeutics are needed. Here we describe the activity of the antibiotic boromycin against Toxoplasma and Cryptosporidium Boromycin potently inhibi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Abenoja J,Cotto-Rosario A,O'Connor R

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relevance of prominent reduction in turbidity macroscopically (MIC) and formation of aberrant hyphal tips microscopically (minimum effective concentration; MEC) in measuring the in vitro activity of caspofungin against Aspergillus and Fusarium. Caspofungin generated low MICs and MECs against Asperg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arikan S,Lozano-Chiu M,Paetznick V,Rex JH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylimidamides (AIAs) are inspired by diamidine antimicrobials but show superior activity against intracellular parasites. The AIA DB766 {2,5-bis[2-(2-i-propoxy)-4-(2-pyridylimino)aminophenyl]furan hydrochloride} displays outstanding potency against intracellular Leishmania parasites and is effective in murine and ham...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pandharkar T,Zhu X,Mathur R,Jiang J,Schmittgen TD,Shaha C,Werbovetz KA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00