Topical delivery of liposomally encapsulated interferon evaluated in a cutaneous herpes guinea pig model.

abstract：:We report the ex vivo lysogenic transfer of erythromycin and tetracycline resistance genes among group A streptococci (GAS). Of 42 susceptible strains, 69% acquired erythromycin/tetracycline resistance when infected with purified supernatants from strain m46 culture containing the phage Φm46.1. A significant emm-type-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Di Luca MC,D'Ercole S,Petrelli D,Prenna M,Ripa S,Vitali LA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with chronic hepatitis B were treated with 8-day courses of leukocyte (alpha) interferon (5 X 10(6) U/day) and with 8-day courses of recombinant fibroblast (betaser) interferon at dosages of 5 X 10(6), 35 X 10(6), and 105 X 10(6) U/day. Inhibition of hepatitis B virus replication as evidenced by a decrea...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eisenberg M,Rosno S,Garcia G,Konrad MW,Gregory PB,Robinson WS,Merigan TC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an isogenic system, we have determined the impact that the four promoters known to control bla(TEM) gene expression have on beta-lactamase activity. For both TEM-1 and TEM-30, this activity gradually increased in relation to the presence of promoters P3, Pa/Pb, and P4 upstream of the corresponding gene. Promoter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lartigue MF,Leflon-Guibout V,Poirel L,Nordmann P,Nicolas-Chanoine MH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial drug nalidixic acid (Nal) can suppress the growth of Candida albicans at levels of the drug normally found in urine. Growth suppression increases as drug levels are increased, and Nal also causes a similar proportional inhibition of the synthesis of all cellular macromolecules. However, growth temper...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sobieski RJ,Brewer AR

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of cefaclor against 556 clinical isolates of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria was compared with that of other cephalosporins. Cefaclor had activity similar to that of cephalexin against gram-positive bacteria. It showed greater activity against Haemophilus strains than did cephalexin and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neu HC,Fu KP

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal transfer of plasmids encoding antimicrobial resistance and virulence determinants has been instrumental in Staphylococcus aureus evolution, including the emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA). In the early 1990s, the first CA-MRSA strain isolated in Western Australia (W...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yui Eto K,Firth N,Davis AM,Kwong SM,Krysiak M,Lee YT,O'Brien FG,Grubb WB,Coombs GW,Bond CS,Ramsay JP

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The entry of an antibiotic into phagocytes is a prerequisite for its intracellular bioactivity against susceptible facultative or obligatory intracellular microorganisms. Brodimoprim is a dimethoxybenzylpyrimidine that has recently entered into clinical use, and its uptake into and elimination from human polymorphonuc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Braga PC,Dal Sasso M,Maci S,Bondiolotti G,Fonti E,Reggio S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTX-M-1-producing Escherichia coli were isolated from 56 pigs, three farm personnel, two manure samples, and two air samples from two Danish pig farms where an association between prophylactic ceftiofur use and the occurrence of cephalosporin resistance was previously demonstrated. Human, animal, and environmental str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moodley A,Guardabassi L

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinin and its derivatives are important new antimalarials which are now used widely in Southeast Asia. Clinically relevant artemisinin resistance has not yet been reported but is likely to occur. In order to understand how the malaria parasite might become resistant to this drug, we studied artemisinin resistanc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walker DJ,Pitsch JL,Peng MM,Robinson BL,Peters W,Bhisutthibhan J,Meshnick SR

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morinidazole, a 5-nitroimidazole antimicrobial drug, has been approved for the treatment of amoebiasis, trichomoniasis, and anaerobic bacterial infections in China. It was reported that drug-drug interaction happened after the coadministration of ornidazole, an analog of morinidazole, and rifampin or ketoconazole. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pang X,Zhang Y,Gao R,Zhong K,Zhong D,Chen X

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of OPC-17116, a new C-5 methyl fluoroquinolone, was compared with the activities of other fluoroquinolones. OPC-17116 inhibited 50% of the members of the family Enterobacteriaceae tested and 90% of Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria species, and Moraxella catarrhalis isolates at less than or equal...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neu HC,Fang W,Gu JW,Chin NX

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Lactamases produced by urine isolates from patients in long-term care facilities (LTCFs), outpatient, clinics, and one hospital in a U.S. community were characterized. A total of 1.3% of all Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates collected from patients in 30 LTCFs and various outpatient clinics prod...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hanson ND,Moland ES,Hong SG,Propst K,Novak DJ,Cavalieri SJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial efflux system encoded by the operon mef(E)-mel on the mobile genetic element MEGA in Streptococcus pneumoniae and other Gram-positive bacteria is inducible by macrolide antibiotics and antimicrobial peptides. Induction may affect the clinical response to the use of macrolides. We developed mef(E) rep...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chancey ST,Zhou X,Zähner D,Stephens DS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ertapenem at 1 g once daily has been suggested to be underdosed in intensive care unit (ICU) patients to attain optimal concentrations in target tissues. Therefore, our study aimed to assess the kinetics of ertapenem in plasma and skeletal muscle in ICU patients using microdialysis. Average muscle free-ertapenem conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyadjiev I,Boulamery A,Simon N,Martin C,Bruguerolle B,Leone M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GS-9148 is an investigational phosphonate nucleotide analogue inhibitor of reverse transcriptase (RT) (NtRTI) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). This compound is an adenosine derivative with a 2',3'-dihydrofuran ring structure that contains a 2'-fluoro group. The resistance profile of GS-9148 is unique in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Scarth BJ,White KL,Chen JM,Lansdon EB,Swaminathan S,Miller MD,Götte M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous inoculation of a group A hemolytic streptococcus caused lethal infections in all of eight untreated monkeys. Intramuscular injections of clindamycin-2-phosphate in a daily dose of 25 mg/kg given in equal morning and afternoon doses for 10 days resulted in survival of all of eight monkeys. Similar results w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Carlisle HN,Saslaw S

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovicin HC5, a broad-spectrum lantibiotic produced by Streptococcus bovis HC5, catalyzed the efflux of intracellular potassium from Streptococcus bovis JB1, a sensitive strain. The level of ATP also decreased, but this decline appeared to be caused by the activity of the F(1)F(0) ATPase rather than efflux per se. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mantovani HC,Russell JB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial activities of K-4619 (3-de-O-methylsporaricin A sulfate) were compared with those of sporaricin A, amikacin, dibekacin, and gentamicin. K-4619 exhibited a high order of activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Its activity against Providencia specie...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Saino Y,Hattori Y,Koshi T,Kobayashi F,Oda T,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gatifloxacin (GTX), a new fluoroquinolone with extended antibacterial activity, is an interesting candidate for the treatment of chronic bacterial prostatitis (CBP). Besides the antibacterial spectrum, the concentrations in the target tissues and fluids are crucial for the treatment of CBP. Thus, it was of interest to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Naber CK,Steghafner M,Kinzig-Schippers M,Sauber C,Sörgel F,Stahlberg HJ,Naber KG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance studies conducted in the United States over the last decade have revealed increasing resistance among community-acquired respiratory pathogens, especially Streptococcus pneumoniae, that may limit future options for empirical therapy. The objective of this study was to assess the scope and magnitude of the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Critchley IA,Brown SD,Traczewski MM,Tillotson GS,Janjic N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrophobicity and charge of the cell surface of M protein-positive (M+) and the less virulent M protein-negative (M-) strains of type 12 Streptococcus pyogenes have been studied, respectively, by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and free zone electrophoresis. The M+ strain had a more hydrophobic and a more ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tylewska S,Hjertén S,Wadström T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-function relationships in antimicrobial peptides have been extensively investigated in order to obtain improved analogs. Most of these studies have targeted either alpha-helical peptides or beta-sheet peptides with multiple disulfide bridges. Tigerinins are short, nonhelical antimicrobial peptides with a sin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sitaram N,Sai KP,Singh S,Sankaran K,Nagaraj R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupeol, which shows in vitro inhibitory activity against Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 strain with a 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 27.7 +/- 0.5 microM, was shown to cause a transformation of the human erythrocyte shape toward that of stomatocytes. Good correlation between the IC50 value and the membrane curvature...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ziegler HL,Staerk D,Christensen J,Hviid L,Hägerstrand H,Jaroszewski JW

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:We have conducted experiments to determine if one daily injection of netilmicin (NET) would be synergistic with the broad-spectrum cephalosporin ceftriaxone (CRO) in the treatment of experimentally induced endocarditis. Rats with catheter-induced aortic vegetations were infected intravenously with 3 x 10(7) CFU of a b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Francioli PB,Glauser MP

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical pharmacological studies of ticarcillin (alpha-carboxyl-3-thienylmethyl penicillin, BRL-2288) were conducted in patients with metastatic cancer and leukemia. After administration of 0.5 g intramuscularly, 1 g intramuscularly, and 1 g intravenously, the mean peak concentrations in serum were 18, 35, and 106 mug...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodriguez V,Inagaki J,Bodey GP

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel antibiotics approved by noninferiority trials may become less effective over time in two scenarios: (i) the treatment effect in studies of novel antibiotics may be consistently worse than studies of older antibiotics; (ii) when a decreasingly effective control arm is used in a series of noninferiority trials. Ou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bai AD,Komorowski AS,Lo CKL,Tandon P,Li XX,Mokashi V,Cvetkovic A,Findlater A,Liang L,Loeb M,Mertz D

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The candidacidal activity of nitric oxide (NO) as delivered by a class of compounds termed diazeniumdiolates has been investigated. Diazeniumdiolates are stable agents capable of releasing NO in a biologically usable form at a predicted rate, and three such compounds were examined for activity. One compound, (Z)-1-[N-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McElhaney-Feser GE,Raulli RE,Cihlar RL

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical variations accompanying the acquisition of ethambutol (EMB) resistance in a single-step mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra were analyzed. Comparative analysis of phospholipids revealed a reduced content in the EMB-resistant strain, particularly in the cell membrane fraction. Significant alterations...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sareen M,Khuller GK

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analogues based on the insect cecropin-bee melittin hybrid peptide (CEME) were studied and analyzed for activity and salt resistance. The new variants were designed to have an increase in amphipathic alpha-helical content (CP29 and CP26) and in overall positive charge (CP26). The alpha-helicity of these peptides was d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Friedrich C,Scott MG,Karunaratne N,Yan H,Hancock RE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00