Impact of Vancomycin MIC on Treatment Outcomes in Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections.

abstract：:Anidulafungin concentrations were quantified with high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and UV detection of the ascites fluid and pleural effusion of 10 adult critically ill patients. Samples were collected from ascites fluid and from pleural drains or during paracentesis and thoracentesis, respectively. Anidulaf...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Welte R,Eller P,Lorenz I,Joannidis M,Bellmann R

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation is an important virulence factor that allows bacteria to resist host responses and antibacterial agents. The aim of the study was to assess the in vitro activities of several antimicrobials alone or in combination against two Staphylococcus aureus isolates in a novel pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parra-Ruiz J,Vidaillac C,Rose WE,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that ginsenosides Rg1 and Re enhanced the immune response in C3H/HeB mice but not in C3H/HeJ mice carrying a mutation in the Tlr4 gene. The results of the present study showed that both Rg1 and Re inhibited mRNA expression and production of proinflammatory mediators that included tumor necro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Su F,Xue Y,Wang Y,Zhang L,Chen W,Hu S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports, for the first time, the presence of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 (NDM-1) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Moreover, this is the first report of the NDM-1 presence in the Balkan region. Cosmid gene libraries of carbapenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates MMA83 and MMA533 were scre...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jovcic B,Lepsanovic Z,Suljagic V,Rackov G,Begovic J,Topisirovic L,Kojic M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse model was developed to evaluate the efficacy of antibiotic treatment of pneumonic plague; streptomycin was compared to antibiotics with which there is little or no clinical experience. Infection was induced by inhalation of aerosolized Yersinia pestis organisms. Antibiotics were administered by intraperitoneal...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Byrne WR,Welkos SL,Pitt ML,Davis KJ,Brueckner RP,Ezzell JW,Nelson GO,Vaccaro JR,Battersby LC,Friedlander AM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy using drugs with different mechanisms of action is the current state of the art in antimalarial treatment. However, except for artemisinin-based combination therapies, only a few other combinations are now available. Increasing concern regarding the emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bei ZC,Li GF,Zhao JH,Zhang M,Ji XG,Wang JY

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:CMY-30, a Val211Gly mutant of CMY-2 cephalosporinase, was derived by mutagenesis. The hydrolytic efficiency of CMY-30 against expanded-spectrum cephalosporins was higher than that of CMY-2 due to increased k(cat) values. Findings indicate a role of the Omega loop residue 211 in determining the substrate specificities ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kotsakis SD,Papagiannitsis CC,Tzelepi E,Tzouvelekis LS,Miriagou V

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical properties of tetrahydrofuranyl (THF) carbapenems, carbapenems with THF substituents, were evaluated with respect to enzyme stability, binding to penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs), and penetration into gram-negative organisms. THF carbapenems showed increased stability to hog renal dehydropeptidases (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang Y,Testa RT,Bhachech N,Rasmussen BA,Bush K

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rapid, continuous method for monitoring the effectiveness of several antibacterial agents in real time, noninvasively, by using a recently described mouse model of chronic biofilm infection (J. L. Kadurugamuwa et al., Infect. Immun. 71:882-890, 2003), which relies on biophotonic imaging of biolumin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kadurugamuwa JL,Sin LV,Yu J,Francis KP,Kimura R,Purchio T,Contag PR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to characterize the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationship of GV143253A, a novel trinem anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) agent active against gram-positive cocci, including multidrug-resistant clinical isolates. An in vitro pharmacodynamic study with methic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ferrari L,Iavarone L,Braggio S,Di Modugno E

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two aminocyclitol-negative Micromonospora mutants representing two different species, M. purpurea and M. inyoensis, and blocked at different steps in the biosynthetic pathway were paired and cofermented for the synthesis of antibiotics. The two blocked mutants were incapable of producing antibiotics alone except when ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee BK,Nagabhushan TL,Condon RG,Cooper AB,Waitz JA

更新日期：1978-07-01 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：:The pharmacokinetics and distribution in tissue of several novel triazole antifungal agents were studied in different animal species in order to select an appropriate lead compound. The purpose of the study was also to determine species differences in pharmacokinetics for SYN azoles to select the most appropriate spec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khan JK,Montaseri H,Poglod M,Bu HZ,Zuo Z,Salama SM,Daneshtalab M,Micetich RG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 19 antimicrobial agents on human polymorphonuclear leukocyte function was evaluated by chemiluminescence assays, yeast phagocytosis and killing, and lactate dehydrogenase release. Tetracycline and trimethoprim inhibited chemiluminescence and reduced killing at therapeutic concentrations of 2 microgram/ml...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Welch WD,Davis D,Thrupp LD

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 2,278 isolates belonging to 86 different fungal species was tested with micafungin and eight other drugs using the EUCAST procedures. Micafungin was active against species of Candida and Aspergillus (even azole-resistant species) as well as Penicillium spp., Scedosporium apiospermum, and Acremonium spp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cuenca-Estrella M,Gomez-Lopez A,Mellado E,Monzon A,Buitrago MJ,Rodriguez-Tudela JL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro antibacterial activity of AM-1155 against a wide variety of clinical isolates was compared with those of other fluoroquinolones. The MICs of AM-1155 for 90% of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Enterococcus faecalis isolates tested were 0.10, 0.39, and 0.78 microgram/ml, respectively. T...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wakabayashi E,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, sensitive, and specific method of analysis for mezlocillin in serum and urine by high-pressure liquid chromatography is described. A solid-phase extraction column was used to remove interfering substances from samples before chromatography. Quantitation included the use of an internal standard, nafcillin. Mez...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fiore D,Auger FA,Drusano GL,Dandu VR,Lesko LJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mecillinam is an amidino penicillinate derivative with a broad spectrum of activity against many gram-negative bacilli. Moreover, marked in vitro synergy against these organisms occurs when mecillinam is combined with other beta-lactam antibiotics. The purpose of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetic disposi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gambertoglio JG,Barriere SL,Lin ET,Conte JE Jr

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：:In a previous work, we described the possible relationship between a defect of purine-cytosine permease and the acquisition of a cross-resistance to the antifungal combination flucytosine (5FC) and fluconazole (FLC) in Candida lusitaniae (T. Noël, F. François, P. Paumard, C. Chastin, D. Brethes, and J. Villard, Antimi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chapeland-Leclerc F,Bouchoux J,Goumar A,Chastin C,Villard J,Noël T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of gentamicin to control contamination in a tissue culture system for the isolation of Chlamydia was investigated. Gentamicin, at concentrations up to 100 mug/ml, did not appear to inhibit the growth of stock chlamydial strains, as judged by assays for iodine-staining inclusions. When 343 cervical and urethral...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wentworth BB

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of mecillinam and ampicillin, alone and in combination, were evaluated in mice infected with the LT-2 strain of Salmonella typhimurium. The minimal inhibitory concentrations of mecillinam and ampicillin for this strain were, respectively, 6.2 and 0.4 microgram/ml of culture medium. In vitro synergy was ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Butler T,Shuster CW,Dixon P

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quinone antibiotic streptonigrin is believed to kill bacteria by promoting formation of oxygen radicals. This antibiotic has also been used to select resistant bacterial mutants, some of which vary in iron utilization. We examined the effects of streptonigrin on Neisseria gonorrhoeae and several types of gonococca...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cohen MS,Chai Y,Britigan BE,McKenna W,Adams J,Svendsen T,Bean K,Hassett DJ,Sparling PF

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As in other pathogenic fungi, the major sterol synthesized by Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans is ergosterol. This yeast also shares with most pathogenic fungi a susceptibility of its cytochrome P-450-dependent ergosterol synthesis to nanomolar concentrations of itraconazole. Fifty percent inhibition of ergoste...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vanden Bossche H,Marichal P,Le Jeune L,Coene MC,Gorrens J,Cools W

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that penicillin resistance of bacteria is mainly caused by the inactivation of penicillin by penicillinase derived from such strains. We have developed a screening procedure for penicillinase inhibitors. Several microorganisms were found to produce such inhibitors, and from the culture filtrate of Streptom...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Iwai Y,Ono H,Takeshima H,Yamaguchi N,Omura S

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bloodstream infection (BSI) due to multidrug-resistant Klebsiella is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to identify predictors of in-hospital mortality among patients with BSI due to ceftazidime-resistant (CAZ-R) Klebsiella pneumoniae at a tertiary care medical center. Pat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Anderson DJ,Engemann JJ,Harrell LJ,Carmeli Y,Reller LB,Kaye KS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida auris is an emerging pathogen that can cause virulent central-line-associated bloodstream infections. Catheter salvage through the eradication of biofilms is a desirable therapeutic option. We compared taurolidine and minocycline-EDTA-ethanol (MEE) catheter lock solutions in vitro for the eradication of biofil...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Reitzel RA,Rosenblatt J,Gerges BZ,Vargas-Cruz N,Raad II

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung infections caused by Mycobacterium abscessus are emerging as a global threat to individuals with cystic fibrosis and to other patient groups. Recent evidence for human-to-human transmission worsens the situation. M. abscessus is an intrinsically multidrug-resistant pathogen showing resistance to even standard ant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aziz DB,Low JL,Wu ML,Gengenbacher M,Teo JWP,Dartois V,Dick T

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo and in vitro determination of significant intracellular stavudine (d4T) triphosphate (d4TTP) concentrations in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected subjects and NS-1 cells treated with zidovudine (ZDV) has recently been reported. This study was conducted to corroborate these findings with in vivo sa...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meléndez M,Blanco R,Delgado W,García R,Santana J,García H,Rosario O,Rodríguez JF

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods for testing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to rifapentine have been developed: the agar proportion method and the radiometric BACTEC technique. A critical concentration of 0.5 microg of rifapentine per ml is proposed for both methods since it provides a reliable means of distinguishing be...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Heifets L,Sanchez T,Vanderkolk J,Pham V

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00