Resistance Mechanisms and Clinical Features of Fluconazole-Nonsusceptible Candida tropicalis Isolates Compared with Fluconazole-Less-Susceptible Isolates.

abstract：:We present a 31-year-old female who had undergone an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation and who was started on intravenous posaconazole for pulmonary mycosis while undergoing continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH). We performed steady-state pharmacokinetic evaluations for both posaconazole and sulfobutylether...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morris AA,Mueller SW,Rower JE,Washburn T,Kiser TH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury has a long history as an antimicrobial agent effective against eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms. Despite its prolonged use, the basis for mercury toxicity in prokaryotes is not well understood. Archaea, like bacteria, are prokaryotes but they use a simplified version of the eukaryotic transcription apparat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dixit V,Bini E,Drozda M,Blum P

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent reports of resistance in Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinin derivatives and their partner drugs demand intensive studies toward understanding the molecular mechanisms of resistance. In this study, we examined the in vitro susceptibility of 63 P. falciparum field isolates collected from the China-Myanmar b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hao M,Jia D,Li Q,He Y,Yuan L,Xu S,Chen K,Wu J,Shen L,Sun L,Zhao H,Yang Z,Cui L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing an effective empirical antifungal therapy requires that national surveillance studies be conducted. Herein, we report the clinical outcome of infections with and the microbiological features of Iranian isolates of Candidaglabrata derived from patients suffering from candidemia. C. glabrata isolates were r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arastehfar A,Daneshnia F,Zomorodian K,Najafzadeh MJ,Khodavaisy S,Zarrinfar H,Hagen F,Zare Shahrabadi Z,Lackner M,Mirhendi H,Salehi M,Roudbary M,Pan W,Kostrzewa M,Boekhout T

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent body clearance of chloramphenicol was investigated in 21 hospitalized adult patients on 27 occasions. Apparent body clearance was found to be significantly lower (1.99 +/- 1.49 ml/min per kg) in patients with total serum bilirubin concentrations of >1.5 mg/100 ml than in patients with serum bilirubin conc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koup JR,Lau AH,Brodsky B,Slaughter RL

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Formimidoyl thienamycin (MK0787) was active against beta-lactamase-producing strains and was an effective inhibitor of beta-lactamases extracted and purified from these strains except for plasmid-mediated penicillinase type IV. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Toda M,Sato K,Nakazawa H,Inoue M,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported the chromosomal location of the staphylococcal beta-lactamase gene in four strains of Enterococcus faecalis. Transfer of this gene from strain CH19 to an enterococcal recipient was accompanied by transfer of numerous other antimicrobial resistance determinants in the absence of detectable plasmid ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rice LB,Marshall SH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pulmonary exacerbations (APE) involving Pseudomonas aeruginosa are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Drug resistance is a significant challenge to treatment. Ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) demonstrates excellent in vitro activity against isolates recovered from CF p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bensman TJ,Wang J,Jayne J,Fukushima L,Rao AP,D'Argenio DZ,Beringer PM

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of luliconazole, amorolfine, ciclopirox, and terbinafine were determined against 320 dermatophyte isolates from large toenails of onychomycosis patients enrolled into an ongoing phase 2b/3 clinical study. The geometric mean MIC for luliconazole was 0.00022 μg/ml against all isolates, compared t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wiederhold NP,Fothergill AW,McCarthy DI,Tavakkol A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty years after the last endemic smallpox case, variola virus (VARV) is still considered a major threat to humans due to its possible use as a bioterrorism agent. For many years, the risk of disease reemergence was thought to solely be through deliberate misuse of VARV strains kept in clandestine laboratories. Howev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Delaune D,Iseni F

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variant (SCV) phenotype has been associated with relapsing and antibiotic-refractory infections. However, little is known about the activities of antibiotics on clinical SCVs. Here, we demonstrated that SCVs without detectable auxotrophies were at least as susceptible to most β-l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Idelevich EA,Kriegeskorte A,Schleimer N,Peters G,von Eiff C,Becker K

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid method for the detection of methicillin resistance in staphylococci was developed. The method was based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and primers that targeted the internal region of the coding frame of the mec gene. The amplification reaction was carried out with crude cell lysates as a source of tar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Predari SC,Ligozzi M,Fontana R

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of occurrence of the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing phenotype among Escherichia coli isolates in Tel Aviv is 12% (22). The aim of this study was to understand the molecular epidemiology of E. coli ESBL producers and to identify the ESBL genes carried by them. We studied 20 single-patient ES...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chmelnitsky I,Carmeli Y,Leavitt A,Schwaber MJ,Navon-Venezia S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica has emerged as an enteropathogen associated with several types of human infections that often require antimicrobial therapy, but little is known about the antimicrobial susceptibilities of pathogenic strains isolated from humans in Canada. To determine the present patterns of antimicrobial susc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Preston MA,Brown S,Borczyk AA,Riley G,Krishnan C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspofungin acetate is an antifungal antibiotic that inhibits synthesis of 1,3-beta-D-glucan, an essential component of the fungal cell wall. While caspofungin causes cell death in yeasts and dimorphic fungi such as Candida albicans, its effect on Aspergillus fumigatus is less well understood. We used the fluorescent ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bowman JC,Hicks PS,Kurtz MB,Rosen H,Schmatz DM,Liberator PA,Douglas CM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cefodizime and cefuroxime on neutrophil phagocytosis and reactive oxygen production in 54 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting were studied. Both drugs were administered twice at a dosage of 40 mg/kg of body weight (pre- and intraoperative). Phagocytic capacity was assessed by me...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wenisch C,Bartunek A,Zedtwitz-Liebenstein K,Hiesmayr M,Parschalk B,Pernerstorfer T,Graninger W

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was performed with 23 Helicobacter pylori-infected children (mean age, 9.5 +/- 4.4 years) with clinical symptoms of gastritis and positive results of culture and histologic examination of gastric biopsy specimens to evaluate the influence of antibiotic resistance on eradication. Positive children w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Raymond J,Kalach N,Bergeret M,Benhamou PH,Barbet JP,Gendrel D,Dupont C

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 104 carbapenemase (serine- and metallo-beta-lactamase [MbetaL])-producing strains of the Enterobacteriaceae family collected from 2000 to 2005 in medical centers distributed worldwide were tested against tigecycline and 25 comparators by reference broth microdilution methods. The most frequent carbapenemase...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Castanheira M,Sader HS,Deshpande LM,Fritsche TR,Jones RN

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of daptomycin, a cyclic lipopeptide, and eight other agents were determined against 338 strains of gram-positive anaerobic bacteria and corynebacteria by the NCCLS reference agar dilution method with supplemented brucella agar for the anaerobes and Mueller-Hinton agar for the corynebacteria. The daptomy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM,Merriam CV,Warren YA,Tyrrell KL,Fernandez HT

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of protein binding on the activity of teicoplanin against Staphylococcus aureus was evaluated. Bactericidal rates of teicoplanin in cation-supplemented Mueller-Hinton broth (SMHB) and in a 1:1 mixture of pooled human serum and cation-supplemented Mueller-Hinton broth (PHS-SMHB) were compared with those of v...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bailey EM,Rybak MJ,Kaatz GW

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2'-beta-Fluoro-2',3'-dideoxyadenosine (F-ddA) is an acid-stable purine dideoxynucleoside analog active against a wide spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-2 strains in vitro. F-ddA is presently undergoing a phase I clinical trial at the National Cancer Institute. We induced HIV-1 variants re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tanaka M,Srinivas RV,Ueno T,Kavlick MF,Hui FK,Fridland A,Driscoll JS,Mitsuya H

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treating malaria in HIV-coinfected individuals should consider potential drug-drug interactions. Artemether-lumefantrine is the most widely recommended treatment for uncomplicated malaria globally. Lumefantrine is metabolized by CYP3A4, an enzyme that commonly used antiretrovirals often induce or inhibit. A population...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Francis J,Barnes KI,Workman L,Kredo T,Vestergaard LS,Hoglund RM,Byakika-Kibwika P,Lamorde M,Walimbwa SI,Chijioke-Nwauche I,Sutherland CJ,Merry C,Scarsi KK,Nyagonde N,Lemnge MM,Khoo SH,Bygbjerg IC,Parikh S,Aweeka FT,

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a serious problematic pathogen due to the ever-increasing presence of antibiotic resistance, demonstrating a need for novel, broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapeutic options. Antimicrobial nanoemulsions are emulsified mixtures of detergent, oil, and water (droplet size, 100 to 80...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hwang YY,Ramalingam K,Bienek DR,Lee V,You T,Alvarez R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to β-lactam antibiotics is a frequent problem in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. This resistance is mainly due to the hyperproduction of chromosomally encoded β-lactamase and biofilm formation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of β-lactamase in th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hengzhuang W,Ciofu O,Yang L,Wu H,Song Z,Oliver A,Høiby N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two optically active (100% enantiomeric excess) isomers of ofloxacin [(+/-)-ofloxacin; DL-8280; (+/-)-9-fluoro-2,3-dihydro-3-methyl-10-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-7-oxo-7 H-pyrido[1,2,3-de] [1,4] benzoxazine-6-carboxylic acid] were prepared by use of their optically resolved synthetic intermediates. One of the isomers, (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hayakawa I,Atarashi S,Yokohama S,Imamura M,Sakano K,Furukawa M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an immunocompetent murine model of invasive aspergillosis (IA), we previously reported that the efficacy of liposomal amphotericin B (L-AmB) (Ambisome) is not hampered by the presence of azole resistance mutations in Aspergillus fumigatus (S. Seyedmousavi, W. J. G. Melchers, J. W. Mouton, and P. E. Verweij, Anti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seyedmousavi S,Mouton JW,Melchers WJG,Verweij PE

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro surveys of antimicrobial resistance among clinically important anaerobes are an important source of information that can be used for clinical decisions in the choice of empiric antimicrobial therapy. This study surveyed the susceptibilities of 556 clinical anaerobic isolates from four large medical centers us...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aldridge KE,Ashcraft D,Cambre K,Pierson CL,Jenkins SG,Rosenblatt JE

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study of 2,149 clinicalSalmonellastrains to help document the historical emergence of antimicrobial resistance. There were significant increases in resistance to older drugs, including ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfamethoxazole, and tetracycline, which were most common inS...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tadesse DA,Singh A,Zhao S,Bartholomew M,Womack N,Ayers S,Fields PI,McDermott PF

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylitol is effective in preventing acute otitis media by inhibiting the growth of Streptococcus pneumoniae. To clarify this inhibition we used fructose, which is known to block similar growth inhibition observed in Streptococcus mutans. In addition, we evaluated the efficacy of sorbitol in inhibiting the growth of pne...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tapiainen T,Kontiokari T,Sammalkivi L,Ikäheimo I,Koskela M,Uhari M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Klebsiella pneumoniae strain resistant to third-generation cephalosporins was isolated in the eastern Netherlands. The strain was found to carry a novel extended-spectrum beta-lactamase, namely, SHV-31. The combination of the two mutations by which SHV-31 differs from SHV-1, namely, L35Q and E240K, had previously on...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mazzariol A,Roelofsen E,Koncan R,Voss A,Cornaglia G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00