Isolation and Characterization of NDM-Positive Escherichia coli from Municipal Wastewater in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

abstract：:Automated DNA sequencing was used to analyze the oxyR-ahpC region in 229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates recently recovered from diseased humans and animals. The entire 1,221-bp region was studied in 118 isolates, and 111 other isolates were sequenced for oxyR, ahpC, or the 105-bp oxyR-ahpC intergenic regi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sreevatsan S,Pan X,Zhang Y,Deretic V,Musser JM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metronidazole (MDZ) and related 5-nitroimidazoles are the recommended drugs for treatment of trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. However, novel treatment options are needed, as recent reports have claimed resistance to these drugs in T. vaginalis isola...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mallo N,Lamas J,Leiro JM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GSQ1530 is a compound derived from a newly identified class of antibiotics referred to as heteroaromatic polycyclic (HARP) antibiotics. The aim of this study was to assess the in vitro antimicrobial activity of GSQ1530. By using an NCCLS broth microdilution assay, the activities of GSQ1530 and other antibiotics were c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ge Y,Difuntorum S,Touami S,Critchley I,Bürli R,Jiang V,Drazan K,Moser H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentration-QTc modeling was applied to pretomanid, a new nitroimidazooxazine antituberculosis drug. Data came from eight phase 2 and phase 3 studies. Besides pretomanid alone, various combinations with bedaquiline, linezolid, moxifloxacin, and pyrazinamide were considered; special attention was given to the bedaqui...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li H,Salinger DH,Everitt D,Li M,Del Parigi A,Mendel C,Nedelman JR

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of two new beta-lactam antibiotics, moxalactam disodium (LY 127935) and cefotaxime (HR-756), were compared with cefoxitin, cefamandole, cefuroxime, cephalothin, and, in some instances, carbenicillin, gentamicin, and amikacin against aerobic gram-negative bacilli. Test isolates included normally...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jorgensen JH,Crawford SA,Alexander GA

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of 25 8-aminoquinolines were compared in tests assessing the ability of the compounds to inhibit the growth of Pneumocystis carinii in culture. Six compounds were effective at or below 0.03 microM: CDRI 80/53, NSC19894, NSC305805, NSC305812, WR182234, and primaquine. Four others were effective at betwee...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Queener SF,Bartlett MS,Nasr M,Smith JW

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colistin-resistant Escherichia coli strain was recovered from a patient with a diabetic foot infection in Brazil. Whole-genome analysis revealed that the E. coli isolate belonged to the widespread sequence type (ST) 101 and harbored the mcr-1 gene on an IncX4 plasmid that was highly similar to mcr-1-bearing IncX4 pl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fernandes MR,McCulloch JA,Vianello MA,Moura Q,Pérez-Chaparro PJ,Esposito F,Sartori L,Dropa M,Matté MH,Lira DP,Mamizuka EM,Lincopan N

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftaroline-avibactam and comparator agents were tested by the broth microdilution method against 20,089 isolates consecutively collected in 2010 and 2011 from 75 U.S. medical centers. Ceftaroline-avibactam was active against Enterobacteriaceae (4,908 strains; MIC90, 0.25 μg/ml; highest MIC, 4 μg/ml), including merope...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sader HS,Flamm RK,Jones RN

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial cationic peptides are ubiquitous in nature and are thought to be a component of the first line of defense against infectious agents. It is widely believed that the killing mechanism of these peptides on bacteria involves an interaction with the cytoplasmic membrane. Cationic peptides from different struc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Friedrich CL,Moyles D,Beveridge TJ,Hancock RE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data for a total of 164 bloodstream infection cases due to carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) from 2013 to 2017 were retrospectively collected from 36 tertiary hospitals in 19 provinces in China to evaluate the outcomes and risk factors for mortality by univariable and multivariable analysis. The most frequ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang X,Wang Q,Cao B,Sun S,Zhang Y,Gu B,Li B,Liao K,Zhao F,Jin L,Jin C,Yang C,Pei F,Zhang Z,Wang H

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside 2″-phosphotransferases are the major aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes in clinical isolates of enterococci and staphylococci. We describe a novel aminoglycoside 2″-phosphotransferase from the Gram-negative pathogen Campylobacter jejuni, which shares 78% amino acid sequence identity with the APH(2″)-Ia do...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Toth M,Frase H,Antunes NT,Vakulenko SB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of miltefosine with amphotericin B, sodium stibogluconate, paromomycin, and sitamaquine was assessed in vitro and additionally for the first three combinations in vivo. In vitro interactions were indifferent for miltefosine combined with amphotericin B (mean sums of fractional inhibitory concentrations...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seifert K,Croft SL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structurally diverse library of 93 lipophilic di- and tricyclic diaminopyrimidine derivatives was tested for the ability to inhibit recombinant dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) cloned from human and bovine isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum (J. R. Vásquez et al., Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 79:153-165, 1996). In parallel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nelson RG,Rosowsky A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linezolid was tested against 32 species of uncommonly isolated gram-positive organisms (3,251 strains) by reference MIC methods and found to be highly active (MIC50 range, 0.25 to 2 microg/ml; MIC90 range, 0.25 to 2 microg/ml). Only one isolate (viridans group streptococcus; 0.03% of tested strains) was resistant to l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones RN,Stilwell MG,Hogan PA,Sheehan DJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to peptide deformylase inhibitors in Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus is due to inactivation of transformylase activity. Knockout experiments in Streptococcus pneumoniae R6x indicate that the transformylase (fmt) and deformylase (defB) genes are essential and that a def paralog (defA) is not. Actin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Margolis P,Hackbarth C,Lopez S,Maniar M,Wang W,Yuan Z,White R,Trias J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of monocytopenia and granulocytopenia on the outgrowth of Staphylococcus aureus as well as on antibiotic efficacy was studied in an experimental thigh infection in mice. Pretreatment with etoposide reduced monocyte numbers in blood to 14% and those of granulocytes to 54% at the time of infection. Monocytope...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Calame W,van der Waals R,Mattie H,van Furth R

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-human immunodeficiency virus type I (anti-HIV-1) effects of gamma-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester (gamma-GCE; TEI-2306) were examined in vitro. In initial studies using a vigorously HIV-1-producing human T-lymphocytic cell line, gamma-GCE displayed a novel biphasic repressive effect on chronic HIV-1 infection th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kubota S,Shetty S,Zhang H,Kitahara S,Pomerantz RJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed and validated a high-performance liquid chromatography method coupled with a mass detector to quantify itraconazole, voriconazole, and posaconazole using quinoxaline as the internal standard. The method involves protein precipitation with acetonitrile. Mean accuracy (percent deviation from the true v...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Baietto L,D'Avolio A,Ventimiglia G,De Rosa FG,Siccardi M,Simiele M,Sciandra M,Di Perri G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GV129606 is a new parenteral trinem antibiotic belonging to the beta-lactam class. It combines broad-spectrum activity (against gram-negative and -positive bacteria, aerobes and anaerobes), with high potency and resistance to beta-lactamases. Comparative in vitro and in vivo antibacterial activities were determined fo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Di Modugno E,Broggio R,Erbetti I,Lowther J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized crossover trial, six volunteers received 200- and 400-mg doses of loracarbef (LY 163892), a new oral cephalosporin. Mean +/- standard error of the mean concentrations in serum obtained after 1.5 and 3 h were 13.2 +/- 2.8 and 4.3 +/- 0.7 mg/liter, respectively, after the 400-mg dose and 6.9 +/- 1.0 and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van der Auwera P

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of UK31214, a kanamycin B derivative, was studied against 250 recent isolates and compared with other aminoglycosides. Against the Enterobacteriaceae (with the exception of Proteus mirabilis and Providencia stuartii) UK31214 and amikacin had similar degrees of activity (mode minimum inhibitory co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wise R,Andrews JM,Bedford KA

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypermutation is a common feature of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from chronically infected cystic fibrosis patients that is linked with antibiotic resistance development. In this work, using a large collection of sequential P. aeruginosa isolates from ICU patients, we found that despite the fact that mutational an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gutiérrez O,Juan C,Pérez JL,Oliver A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activity of CP-62,993 against four Chlamydia trachomatis isolates was compared with those of erythromycin, clindamycin, and tetracycline. The MIC of CP-62,993 was 0.26 to 1.02 micrograms/ml for 100% inclusion inhibition and 0.031 to 0.063 microgram/ml for 50% inclusion inhibition. With pharmacokineti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walsh M,Kappus EW,Quinn TC

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid (6-7 hr), modified Kirby-Bauer disk-susceptibility method, by which derivatives of tetrazolium dyes are used to enhance delineation between areas of growth and zones of inhibition, has been developed. Inoculated petri plates, prepared by the Kirby-Bauer method, were sprayed, after 6 to 7 hr of incubation (37 C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyle VJ,Fancher ME,Ross RW Jr

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftriaxone in short courses has emerged as an effective alternative to chloramphenicol for the treatment of typhoid fever. To study the pharmacokinetics of ceftriaxone in acute typhoid fever, 10 febrile Nepalese adolescents and young adults with blood culture-positive illness were treated with 3 g of ceftriaxone (int...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Acharya G,Crevoisier C,Butler T,Ho M,Tiwari M,Stoeckel K,Bradley CA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meglumine antimonate (Glucantime), a drug of choice for the treatment of leishmaniasis, is produced by the reaction of pentavalent antimony with N-methyl-D-glucamine, a carbohydrate derivative. We investigated the structure and composition of meglumine antimonate, which remain poorly understood, despite 50 years of us...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roberts WL,McMurray WJ,Rainey PM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coresistance to human reserve antibiotics can be selected by antibiotics used in veterinary medicine. A Clostridium perfringens strain isolated from pig manure was resistant to the reserve drug linezolid and, simultaneously, resistant against florfenicol and erythromycin. We detected a new mutation in a highly conserv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hölzel CS,Harms KS,Schwaiger K,Bauer J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized, prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, multicenter study investigated the efficacy and safety of 10 days of oral therapy with grepafloxacin at 400 mg once daily, grepafloxacin at 600 mg once daily, or ciprofloxacin at 500 mg twice daily in 624 patients with acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bron...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chodosh S,Lakshminarayan S,Swarz H,Breisch S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-level vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus [VISA] and heterogenous VISA [hVISA]) is increasingly reported and leads to glycopeptide treatment failure. Various phenotypic features have been reported for these isolates, but the genetic changes leading to hVISA and VISA have y...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Howden BP,Johnson PD,Ward PB,Stinear TP,Davies JK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether cells derived from the fetal central nervous system can support productive infection by a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolate termed UHC-1, produced by a cellular clone derived from HIV-1 strain HIV-IIIB chronically infected U-937 promonocytic cells, and what the effect of nucle...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Geleziunas R,Arts EJ,Boulerice F,Goldman H,Wainberg MA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00