Study on the relationship between pharmacokinetics and antibacterial activity: comparison between ceftriaxone and cefotaxime within the respiratory tract.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ciprofloxacin is commonly used and considered to be relatively safe in patients with cirrhosis, especially in the treatment of enteric and urinary tract infections. Among the adverse effects of ciprofloxacin, neurologic complications are rare. METHODS/RESULTS:We report a case of hemiballism and altered ment...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Kim SH,Jeong SH,Kim JW,Lee SH,Kim JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifampicin and rifapentine were used in the treatment of Listeria monocytogenes infections in normal mice and congenitally athymic (nude) mice. Results were compared with untreated controls and with the results obtained from a previous study of ampicillin in which this model was used. Low doses of rifampicin or rifape...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Bakker-Woudenberg IA,de Bos P,Michel MF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The discovery of mutations in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has dramatically changed the treatment of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. EGFR-targeted therapies show considerable promise, but drug resistance has become a substantial issue...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Tetsu O,Hangauer MJ,Phuchareon J,Eisele DW,McCormick F

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Without treatment all mice died after receiving 10(3) Klebsiella pneumoniae by intraperitoneal injection. Nevertheless, it was possible to delay treatment for 12 h and still observe a therapeutic response from im gentamicin (5 mg/kg). This gave initial serum concentrations comparable to clinical levels, which fell rap...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Queiroz ML,Bathirunathan N,Mawer GE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic bone and soft tissue suppurations have become more frequent recently due to the increasing number of high-energy injuries. There are certain antibiotic beads available for local administration, but they cannot always be applied specifically against the pyogenic microorganisms. In the present study, a new techn...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Börzsei L,Mintál T,Koós Z,Kocsis B,Helyes Z,Kereskai L,Nyárády J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crl:CD1(ICR) BR mice were fed chow containing Candida albicans or regular chow. Both groups were subsequently given either antibiotics or normal saline. Stool cultures were performed before, at the end of treatment and 1 week after treatment, to determine the effect on the stool yeast concentration. Candida-colonized ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Maraki S,Barbounakis E,Chatzinikolaou I,Anatoliotakis N,Plataki M,Tselentis Y,Samonis G

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have treated 45 cases of urinary tract infection with cefazolin (i.m.) and cure was achieved in 35 (77.77%). 26 of the 28 patients (92.85%) with acute cystitis who received 250 mg every 12 h for 6-10 days were cured. 17 patients with pyelonephritis received 500 mg every 12 h during 10-14 days and therapeutical succ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Lus RG,Calvo MC,Lopez LG,Cancer RC,Molina AM,Sanchez ED,Parilla AC,Mur LL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fungal infections are common and life threatening among immunosupressive patients. Rare side effects may occur related to the use of voriconazole, which is the drug of choice in invasive aspergillosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Neuropathy was determined through clinical and electromyographic findings during the ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Aksoy F,Akdogan E,Aydin K,Yilmaz M,Altunayoglu V,Sozen EE,Omay SB,Koksal I

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of cefetamet against Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Serratia marcescens strains expressing an SHV-5-type beta-lactamase was evaluated. Most of the examined strains were susceptible to the antibiotic. Cefetamet was found to be considerably more active than ceftazidime and aztreonam. I...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Tzouvelekis LS,Prinarakis EE,Gazouli M,Miriagou V,Tzelepi E,Legakis NJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative in vitro activity of amikacin, cefamandole, cefoperazone, cefotaxime, cefoxitin, cephalothin, chloramphenicol, moxalactam, piperacillin, ticarcillin and tobramycin against 170 community blood culture isolates of gram-negative bacilli was investigated using the quantitative plate dilution method. Result...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Gordon RC,Tack KJ,Haddy RI,Fechner L,Wofford R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This phase II study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the chemotherapy combination of gemcitabine and vinorelbine in taxane-pretreated Japanese metastatic breast cancer patients. METHODS:In this multicenter, phase II, single-arm study, patients with recurrent or metastatic HER2-negative b...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Yamamura J,Masuda N,Yamamoto D,Tsuyuki S,Yamaguchi M,Tanaka S,Tsurutani J,Tokunaga S,Yoshidome K,Mizutani M,Aono T,Ooe A,Tanino H,Matsunami N,Yasojima H,Nakayama T,Nishida Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutant prevention concentration (MPC) is a new parameter that may be of aid in determining the risk of resistant mutants being selected. METHODS:The MPCs of 224 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates were estimated by plating more than 10(10) cells on drug-containing agar and determining the concentra...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Rodríguez JC,Cebrián L,Ruiz M,López M,Royo G

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bis(amidinohydrazones) are potent inhibitors of adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC), a key enzyme of polyamine biosynthesis, and some of them are also known to be powerful antiviral agents. Therefore, seven bis(amidinohydrazones), including the two most potent inhibitors of eukaryotic AdoMetDC so far repo...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Elo H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A-56619 and A-56620 are two new quinolone compounds that are currently being studied. They were found to be active against multi-resistant and routine isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, enterobacteria, aminoglycoside-sensitive and resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Most of the enterobacteria were inhibited b...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Fernandes CJ,Wilson RD,Ackerman VP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biliary excretion of cefaclor, a new orally active cephalosporin, was studied in vitro using an isolated rabbit liver preparation perfused for 3 h (n = 5). Under these conditions, bile recovery amounted to 2.3% of the cefaclor dose added to the circulating blood (10 mg). In humans, after oral administration of a 1-gra...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Brogard JM,Pinget M,Comte F,Adloff M,Lavillaureix J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial agents may interact with polymorphonuclear leukocytes and directly modify the leukocyte functions, or bacteria can be modified by the antimicrobial agents causing them to be treated differently by phagocytic cells. Brief exposure of bacteria to high levels of antimicrobials can affect their interaction w...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Pérez P,Herrera I,Martín M,Martínez P,Gómez-Lus ML

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to the predominance of gram-positive pathogens in neutropenic cancer patients, newer generation quinolones with an expanded gram-positive spectrum and enhanced potency, may have a role to play for prophylaxis and/or empiric therapy in such patients. The in vitro activity of gatifloxacin was compared with that of...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Rolston KV,Vaziri I,Frisbee-Hume S,Streeter H,LeBlanc B

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among third-generation cephalosporins, cefodizime (CFDZ) has shown to modulate many functions of the host defense system against infections. The aim of the present study was to assess the in vitro CFDZ-dependent modulation of interleukin (IL)-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and IL-8 release from lipopolysac...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Meloni F,Ballabio P,Bianchi L,Grassi FA,Gialdroni Grassi GG

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two gonococcal strains with differing susceptibility to cefotiam and ceftizoxime, as expressed by the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), are exposed to continuously changing concentrations of these antibiotics as they are found in plasma and skin cantharidal blister fluid (CBF) after a single intramuscular applic...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Korting HC,Niederauer H,Ollert M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy improves survival in women with early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Yet, there is a wide variety in clinical practice. METHODS:All patients diagnosed with FIGO I and IIa EOC (2006-2010) in the south of the Netherlands were analyzed. The percentage of patients th...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Frielink LM,Pijlman BM,Ezendam NP,Pijnenborg JM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One patient of sepsis by P. aeruginosa after the implanting of a ventriculoatrial valve following extirpation of an expansive intracranial process is studied. During the evolution of the septic process there appeared as associated nephrotic syndrome with histologic lesions corresponding to an acute exudative glomerula...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Rodriguéz-Gironés M,Genovés A

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the sub-MIC of antibiotics on the surface hydrophobicity and charge of Staphylococcus aureus were examined by the contact angle method and by microscopic electrophoresis, and the production of oxygen-derived radicals by mouse peritoneal macrophages was measured by a luminol-chemiluminescence assay. The ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Nomura S,Kuroiwa A,Nagayama A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of perioperative prophylaxis in gallbladder surgery was examined in two prospective randomized studies with a total of 326 patients. Postoperative wound-healing impairments did not occur in any of the patients receiving a single preoperative application of an antibiotic with a high biliary elimination rate...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Harnoss BM,Hirner A,Dibbelt H,Häring R,Rodloff R,Lode H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen radical generation by blood cells before and after chemotherapy was investigated in 16 elderly (72.8 +/- 1.0 years) and 14 adult (45.0 +/- 2.4 years) patients with lung cancer, using a lucigenin-dependent chemiluminescence method. The oxygen radical generation by 100 microliters of blood before chemotherapy in ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Teramoto S,Fukuchi Y,Shu CY,Orimo H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective clinical evaluation to assess the efficacy of a 1-gram once-daily regimen of intravenously administered ceftriaxone in the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections. Of the 250 patients studied, 167 had infections of the lower respiratory tract, approximately 70% of which were diagnos...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Brown R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with a mycologically confirmed vaginal mycosis were treated either with one 100-mg vaginal ovule of clotrimazole each for 6 days, or with one 200-mg vaginal ovule of clotrimazole each for 3 days, or with one 500-mg vaginal ovule of clotrimazole for 1 day, the ovule having been supplied in a novel, acid formul...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Mendling W,Plempel M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the bactericidal activities of ofloxacin and its optically active derivative, DR-3355, against non-growing cells of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are described. E. coli and P. aeruginosa were killed rapidly by ofloxacin and DR-3355. After treatment with these quinolones, the resting cells o...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Tanaka M,Otsuki M,Nishino T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ginkgolic acids (GAs), extracted from the seed coat of Ginkgo biloba L. Our previous study has shown that GA monomer could inhibit the growth of Hep-2 significantly and induce the fragmentation of the chromosomal DNA. To further assess the antitumor potential and turn it into a candidate new antitumor drug, ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Zhou C,Li X,Du W,Feng Y,Kong X,Li Y,Xiao L,Zhang P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itraconazole has emerged as an important new oral agent in the treatment of systemic fungal infections. This paper summarizes the data available on its use in aspergillosis, cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis, compiled in the United States with particular attention to the immunocompromised host. Data have been accrued ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Hostetler JS,Denning DW,Stevens DA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic disposition of 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) was studied in 7 patients with acute renal failure undergoing continuous hemofiltration (CH). CH was performed with a high-flux membrane and the average filtration rate (FR) was 16.3 ml/min. Following an intravenous loading dose of 2,500 mg, 5-FC concentration...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Ittel TH,Legler UF,Polak A,Glöckner WM,Sieberth HG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00