Inhibition of synthesis of arabinogalactan by ethambutol in Mycobacterium smegmatis.

abstract：:Optimal treatment options remain unknown for infective endocarditis (IE) caused by penicillin-resistant (PEN-R) viridans group streptococcal (VGS) strains. The aims of this study were to report two cases of highly PEN-R VGS IE, perform a literature review, and evaluate various antibiotic combinations in vitro and in v...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pericàs JM,Nathavitharana R,Garcia-de-la-Mària C,Falces C,Ambrosioni J,Almela M,García-González J,Quintana E,Marco F,Moreno A,Bayer AS,Miró JM,Karchmer AW,Hospital Clínic Endocarditis Study Group.

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Metronidazole is now being used with increasing frequency for various infectious conditions in patients with renal failure. It is commonly administered to septic patients who have developed acute renal failure requiring hemodialysis. The hemodialysis clearances of metronidazole and its metabolites were evaluated in ni...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lau AH,Chang CW,Sabatini S

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that HIV-1 resistant to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) is not cross-resistant to 3'-azido-2',3'-dideoxypurines. This finding suggested that the nucleoside base is a major determinant of HIV-1 resistance to nucleoside analogs. To further explore this hypothesis, we conducted in vitro selection ex...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meteer JD,Koontz D,Asif G,Zhang HW,Detorio M,Solomon S,Coats SJ,Sluis-Cremer N,Schinazi RF,Mellors JW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caspofungin clinical trial database offers an opportunity to assess susceptibility results for Candida pathogens obtained from patients with candidiasis and allows for correlations between efficacy outcomes and MICs. Candida isolates have been identified from patients enrolled in four studies of esophageal candidi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kartsonis N,Killar J,Mixson L,Hoe CM,Sable C,Bartizal K,Motyl M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olorofim is a novel antifungal drug in phase 2 trials. It has shown promising in vitro activity against various molds, except for Mucorales. Initially, we observed a broad range of EUCAST MICs for Aspergillus fumigatus Here, we explored the MIC variability in more detail and prospectively investigated the susceptibili...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Astvad KMT,Jørgensen KM,Hare RK,Datcu R,Arendrup MC

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of a stepwise selection procedure, mutants capable of growing in the presence of relatively high multiplicities of a bacteriocin from Streptococcus mutans GS-5 were obtained from a sensitivie strain of Streptococcus pyogenes. Mutacin-neutralizing activity of cell extracts containing receptor protein was exami...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Franker CK

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro activity of tebipenem, a new oral carbapenem antibiotic, against clinical Haemophilus influenzae isolates was compared with those of 8 reference agents. Isolates were classified into 6 resistance classes after PCR identification of beta-lactamase genes and ftsI gene mutations. For all isolates, the minimal co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kishii K,Chiba N,Morozumi M,Ono A,Ida T,Ubukata K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efavirenz-based antiretroviral regimen is preferred during rifampin-containing tuberculosis therapy. However, current pharmacokinetic data are insufficient to guide optimized concurrent dosing. This study aimed to better characterize the effects of rifampin on efavirenz pharmacokinetics. Subjects were randomized to re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kwara A,Tashima KT,Dumond JB,Poethke P,Kurpewski J,Kashuba AD,Court MH,Greenblatt DJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiviral screens have proved useful for the identification of novel human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) inhibitors. In this study, we describe an HIV-1 full replication (HIV-1 Rep) assay that incorporates all of the targets required for replication in T-cell lines, including the HIV-1 Vif gene. The HIV-1 Rep ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cao J,Isaacson J,Patick AK,Blair WS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of meropenem and its ring-opened metabolite (ICI 213,689) were investigated with eight young (20- to 34-year-old) and eight elderly (67- to 80-year-old) healthy male volunteers given single 30-min intravenous infusions of 500 mg of meropenem. All subjects had normal age-correlated glomerular funct...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ljungberg B,Nilsson-Ehle I

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophilic albumin microspheres are proposed as a new delivery system for amphotericin B (AMB; AMB microspheres). The acute toxicity of AMB microspheres was lower than that of the AMB-deoxycholate (AMB-Doc) reference formulation in hamsters. Lethal doses in healthy and infected animals were improved at least eight ti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sánchez-Brunete JA,Dea MA,Rama S,Bolás F,Alunda JM,Raposo R,Méndez MT,Torrado-Santiago S,Torrado JJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine monophosphate pretreatment of mice with latent herpes simplex virus type 1 infections significantly reduced the rate of reactivation of latent virus. Adenosine monophosphate pretreatment did not, however, eradicate latent virus. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blue WT,Winland RD,Stobbs DG,Kirksey DF,Savage RE

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective analysis of 189 nonredundant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa sequentially recovered from the sputum samples of 46 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients over a 10-year period (1998 to 2007) revealed that 53 out of 189 (28%) samples were hypersusceptible to the beta-lactam antibiotic ticarcillin (MIC < or = 4 mi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vettoretti L,Plésiat P,Muller C,El Garch F,Phan G,Attrée I,Ducruix A,Llanes C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Escherichia coli K-10 with 100 mug of chloramphenicol per ml for periods greater than 30 min leads to progressive lysis and killing of cells. The bactericidal action of the antibiotic is dependent on cell growth and physiology; only rapidly dividing cells are susceptible to killing; resting or slowly grow...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Guota RS

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 cells grown in 1 to 5 mM sodium salicylate (SAL) or acetylsalicylate show increased phenotypic resistance to various antibiotics (J. L. Rosner, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:8771-8774, 1985), including cephalosporins (this study). To determine whether these effects are caused by a decreased uptak...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Foulds J,Murray DM,Chai T,Rosner JL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 6,991 unique patient isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae were collected from October 1997 to June 2002 from 25 medical centers in 9 of the 10 Canadian provinces. Among these isolates, 20.2% were penicillin nonsusceptible, with 14.6% being penicillin intermediate (MIC, 0.12 to 1 microg/ml) and 5.6% being pe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhanel GG,Palatnick L,Nichol KA,Bellyou T,Low DE,Hoban DJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterial pathogen responsible for the majority of skin and soft tissue infections. Antibiotics are losing their efficacy as treatment for skin and soft tissue infections as a result of increased resistance in a variety of pathogens, including S. aureus It is thus imperative to explore alter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： van Staden Adu P,Heunis T,Smith C,Deane S,Dicks LM

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The trypanocidal action of green tea catechins against two different developmental stages of Trypanosoma cruzi is reported for the first time. This activity was assayed with the nonproliferative bloodstream trypomastigote and with the intracellular replicative amastigote parasite forms. An ethyl acetate fraction from ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Paveto C,Güida MC,Esteva MI,Martino V,Coussio J,Flawiá MM,Torres HN

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single- and multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of and tolerability to a new microfluidized suspension of atovaquone were studied in human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive patients with CD4 counts of < or = 200 cells per mm3 in order to define a dosing regimen for the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Thi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dixon R,Pozniak AL,Watt HM,Rolan P,Posner J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial passage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 or Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 on agar with subinhibitory concentrations of norfloxacin rapidly produced isolates with minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of norfloxacin up to 512-fold higher than that for the original strain. Although MICs of seven unrelated an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tenney JH,Maack RW,Chippendale GR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2'-Deoxy-2'-fluorocytidine (FdC) is a potent inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus RNA replicon in culture, and FdC-5'-triphosphate is an effective inhibitor of the NS5B polymerase. Dynamic profiling of cell growth in an antiviral assay showed that FdC caused cytostasis due to an S-phase arrest. These observations demons...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stuyver LJ,McBrayer TR,Whitaker T,Tharnish PM,Ramesh M,Lostia S,Cartee L,Shi J,Hobbs A,Schinazi RF,Watanabe KA,Otto MJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disposition of caspofungin, a parenteral antifungal drug, was investigated. Following a single, 1-h, intravenous infusion of 70 mg (200 microCi) of [(3)H]caspofungin to healthy men, plasma, urine, and feces were collected over 27 days in study A (n = 6) and plasma was collected over 26 weeks in study B (n = 7). Su...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stone JA,Xu X,Winchell GA,Deutsch PJ,Pearson PG,Migoya EM,Mistry GC,Xi L,Miller A,Sandhu P,Singh R,deLuna F,Dilzer SC,Lasseter KC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella oxytoca 1731, which showed a wide spectrum of resistance to beta-lactams, including cefoxitin, was isolated in 1994 from a patient in Genoa, Italy. This strain contained a plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamase with a pI of 7.25. Sequencing of the corresponding DNA of K. oxytoca 1731 revealed 96 and 97% ident...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marchese A,Arlet G,Schito GC,Lagrange PH,Philippon A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cell culture-derived interferon was shown to inhibit human cytomegalovirus in vitro. A prototype strain, Davis, and six clinical isolates of cytomegalovirus were tested. All six isolates showed uniform susceptibility to interferon, exceeding that of the Davis strain by two- to fourfold. The latter virus was foun...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Postic B,Dowling JN

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rezafungin is a new long-acting echinocandin currently in phase 3 development. Epidemiological cutoff values are necessary for breakpoint setting but have not been established due to unexplained interlaboratory MIC variations observed in a prior multicenter study. Here we investigated if the choice of microtiter plate...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arendrup MC,Jørgensen KM,Hare RK,Cuenca-Estrella M,Zaragoza O

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effects of azithromycin (AZM), a new 15-membered macrolide antibiotic, on the production of exotoxin A, total protease, elastase, and phospholipase C by Pseudomonas aeruginosa were determined, and the virulence-suppressing effects of AZM were compared with those of erythromycin (EM), roxithromycin (RXM)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mizukane R,Hirakata Y,Kaku M,Ishii Y,Furuya N,Ishida K,Koga H,Kohno S,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), a neglected tropical disease, is fatal without treatment. Pentamidine, a cationic diamidine, has been used to treat first-stage (hemolymphatic) HAT since the 1940s, but it is ineffective against second-stage (meningoencephalitic, or central nervous system [CNS]) infection. Novel di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang S,Wenzler T,Miller PN,Wu H,Boykin DW,Brun R,Wang MZ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and characterization of plasmid-mediated fosfomycin resistance determinants among Escherichia coli isolates collected from pets in China between 2006 and 2010 were investigated. Twenty-nine isolates (9.0%) were positive for fosA3, and all of them were CTX-M producers. The fosA3 genes were flanked by IS26 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hou J,Huang X,Deng Y,He L,Yang T,Zeng Z,Chen Z,Liu JH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of daptomycin (DAP)-nonsusceptible (DNS) vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) vertebral osteomyelitis cases complicated by bacteremia treated with high-dose daptomycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Both patients responded rapidly and favorably to this combination. The clinical ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Avery LM,Steed ME,Woodruff AE,Hasan M,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four children with cancer and localized herpes zoster were randomized to receive either topical polyinosinic acid-polycytidylic acid [poly(I:C)] or a saline placebo. Solutions containing 1.0 or 2.5 mg of drug per ml were applied to the lesions every 3 h, seven times a day for 7 consecutive days. Serial, standar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Feldman S,Hughes WT,Darlington RW,Kim HK

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00