Clarithromycin Resistance Mechanisms of Epidemic β-Lactamase-Nonproducing Ampicillin-Resistant Haemophilus influenzae Strains in Japan.

abstract：:Hypocrellins A and B were evaluated for in vitro antimicrobial and antileishmanial activities. Hypocrellin A exhibited promising activity against Candida albicans and moderate activity against Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant S. aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Mycobacterium intracellulare. Hypocrellin ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ma G,Khan SI,Jacob MR,Tekwani BL,Li Z,Pasco DS,Walker LA,Khan IA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel stilbene glycoside [piceid-(1-->6)-beta-d-glucopyranoside; PBG] from Parthenocissus tricuspidata was tested in vivo against Plasmodium berghei. PBG exhibited significant blood schizontocidal activity in a 4-day early infection, a repository evaluation, and an established infection, with a significant mean surv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Park WH,Lee SJ,Moon HI

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triazoles are first-line agents for treating aspergillosis. The prevalence of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus is increasing, and cross-resistance is a growing concern. In this study, the susceptibilities of 40 A. fumigatus clinical isolates were tested by using the CLSI method with amphotericin B, itraconazo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gregson L,Goodwin J,Johnson A,McEntee L,Moore CB,Richardson M,Hope WW,Howard SJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdialysis was applied to sample the unbound drug concentration in the extracellular fluid in brain and muscle of rats given zalcitabine (2',3'-dideoxycytidine; n = 4) or BEA005 (2', 3'-dideoxy-3'-hydroxymethylcytidine; n = 4) (50 mg/kg of body weight given subcutaneously). Zalcitabine and BEA005 were analyzed by h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Borg N,Ståhle L

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the azole resistance mechanisms and clinical features of fluconazole-nonsusceptible (FNS) isolates of Candida tropicalis recovered from Korean surveillance cultures in comparison with fluconazole-less-susceptible (FLS) isolates. Thirty-five clinical isolates of C. tropicalis, comprising 9 FNS (fluconaz...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Choi MJ,Won EJ,Shin JH,Kim SH,Lee WG,Kim MN,Lee K,Shin MG,Suh SP,Ryang DW,Im YJ

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a 4.9-kilobase (kb) HincII fragment which contains a tetracycline resistance determinant (tetM) from the chromosome of Ureaplasma urealyticum. The 4.9-kb HincII fragment contains DNA in addition to the structural gene, is closely related to the previously characterized 5.0-kb fragment from pJI3, and con...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brown JT,Roberts MC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halothane (2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane) inhibited herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) replication, although HSV-1 DNA was synthesized at normal levels in Vero cells. Viral capsids and extracellular virions were inhibited, and HSV-1 protein synthesis decreased by 50%, although no specific HSV-1 protein faile...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bedows E,Holland TC,Knight PR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no data comparing outcomes of patients treated with ceftazidime-avibactam versus comparators for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections. At our center, ceftazidime-avibactam treatment of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia was associated with higher rates of clinical success (P ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shields RK,Nguyen MH,Chen L,Press EG,Potoski BA,Marini RV,Doi Y,Kreiswirth BN,Clancy CJ

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates A902 and BM4538, which were resistant to relatively high levels of vancomycin (128 and 64 microg/ml, respectively) and to low levels of teicoplanin (4 microg/ml), and Enterococcus faecalis clinical isolates BM4539 and BM4540, which were resistant to moderate levels of vancomycin ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Depardieu F,Kolbert M,Pruul H,Bell J,Courvalin P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure-activity relations of myxinidin, a peptide derived from epidermal mucus of hagfish, Myxine glutinosa L., were investigated. Analysis of key residues allowed us to design new peptides with increased efficiency. Antimicrobial activity of native and modified peptides demonstrated the key role of uncharged r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cantisani M,Leone M,Mignogna E,Kampanaraki K,Falanga A,Morelli G,Galdiero M,Galdiero S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of polycations with pendant active groups were synthesized: one is polymethacrylate containing pendant biguanide units, and the other is poly(vinylbenzyl ammonium chloride). The two polycations were found to exhibit higher bactericidal activity against Staphylococcus aureus than the corresponding monomers. F...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ikeda T,Hirayama H,Yamaguchi H,Tazuke S,Watanabe M

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel triazole D0870 was tested for in vitro activity, as well as in vivo in a murine model of pulmonary blastomycosis. In vitro, D0870 had inhibitory and fungicidal activity against Blastomyces dermatitidis (MIC = 0.048 microgram/ml; minimal fungicidal concentration = 0.097 microgram/ml). In vivo, D0870 was appro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clemons KV,Hanson LH,Stevens DA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of coinfection with malaria and HIV is a major challenge to public health in developing countries, and yet potential drug-drug interactions between antimalarial and antiviral regimens have not been adequately investigated in people with both infections. Each of the constituent components of artemether-lumef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chijioke-Nwauche I,van Wyk A,Nwauche C,Beshir KB,Kaur H,Sutherland CJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoplasts of the temperature-sensitive osmotic-1 mutant of Neurospora crassa grew and divided as cell wall-less cells when incubated under certain conditions at 37 degrees C. Each protoplast regenerated cell wall and formed a mycelium when the temperature was shifted to 22 degrees C. Cell wall regeneration, but not ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Selitrennikoff CP

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penetration of linezolid into bone and joint tissues was studied by high-performance liquid chromatography in 13 patients suffering from implant-associated infections with methicillin-resistant staphylococci. Mean concentrations of linezolid in infected tissues were greater than 10 mg/liter in a sampling time range of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kutscha-Lissberg F,Hebler U,Muhr G,Köller M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the emergence of five carbapenem-resistant K1 hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) strains which caused fatal infections in hospital patients in Zhejiang Province, China, upon entry through surgical wounds. Genotyping results revealed the existence of three genetically related strains which exhibited a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhang R,Lin D,Chan EW,Gu D,Chen GX,Chen S

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of Streptococcus pneumoniae (1,476 strains) and untypeable Haemophilus influenzae (1,676 strains) to various oral beta-lactam, macrolide-azalide, and fluoroquinolone antimicrobial agents were determined by broth microdilution. Organisms were isolated from specimens obtained from outpatients in six...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jacobs MR,Bajaksouzian S,Zilles A,Lin G,Pankuch GA,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard therapy of human visceral leishmaniasis with parenteral pentavalent antimonial agents is generally curative but has the disadvantages of a 28-day treatment course, occasional treatment failures, and toxicity. The antifungal and antileishmanial agent amphotericin B has been complexed with lipids to develop a l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berman JD,Ksionski G,Chapman WL,Waits VB,Hanson WL

更新日期：1992-09-01 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 physicochemical constants and some structural parameters (topological, steric, and electronic) of eight third-generation monofluorate quinolones (six uncommercialized and two used clinically [ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin]) were determined: pKa, intrinsic solubility (S0), chromatographic capacity factor, partitio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escribano E,Calpena AC,Garrigues TM,Freixas J,Domenech J,Moreno J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new SHV-derived extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (SHV-24) conferring high-level resistance to ceftazidime but not cefotaxime and cefazolin was identified in Japan. This enzyme was encoded by a transferable 150-kb plasmid from an Escherichia coli clinical isolate. The pI and K(m) for CAZ of this enzyme were 7.5 and 3...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kurokawa H,Yagi T,Shibata N,Shibayama K,Kamachi K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel streptogramin A, pleuromutilin, and lincosamide resistance determinant, Vga(E), was identified in porcine methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST398. The vga(E) gene encoded a 524-amino-acid protein belonging to the ABC transporter family. It was found on a multidrug resistance-conferring transpo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schwendener S,Perreten V

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BILN 2061 is a novel, specific hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 serine protease inhibitor discovered by Boehringer Ingelheim that has shown potent activity against HCV replicons in tissue culture and is currently under clinical investigation for the treatment of HCV infection. The poor fidelity of the HCV RNA-dependent RNA...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lu L,Pilot-Matias TJ,Stewart KD,Randolph JT,Pithawalla R,He W,Huang PP,Klein LL,Mo H,Molla A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of binding and the bactericidal action of vancomycin on the arrangement and mobilities of cell wall polymers in Bacillus licheniformis were investigated by (15)N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The bactericidal action of vancomycin led to reduced mobilities of cell wall teichoic acid and teichuron...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Irving CS,Lapidot A

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the in vitro activity of piperacillin alone or in combination with the beta-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam against clinical isolates of Legionella species. At an inoculum of approximately 10(4) CFU, tazobactam, piperacillin, and the 8:1 combination had equivalent activities against Legionella spp. At an a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Collins LA,Wennersten CB,Ferraro MJ,Moellering RC Jr,Eliopoulos GM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK-18892 is a new aminoglycoside antibiotic, a derivative of kanamycin A structurally related to amikacin. It was found to be active against a wide range of pathogenic bacteria, including many gentamicin-resistant strains. The spectrum and degree of activity of UK-18892 were similar to those of amikacin, and differenc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wise R,Andrews JM

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefepime were studied in 12 adult patients in intensive care units during continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) or continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF) with a Multiflow60 AN69HF 0.60-m(2) polyacrylonitrile hollow-fiber membrane (Hospal Industrie, Meyzieu, France). Patients (me...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malone RS,Fish DN,Abraham E,Teitelbaum I

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of two cefoperazone-sulbactam combinations against anaerobic bacteria was tested and compared both with that of cefoperazone alone and with that of other commonly used antimicrobial agents. Imipenem was the most active of the tested agents, followed by chloramphenicol, metronidazole, and cefoperazone-sulb...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wexler HM,Finegold SM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic options for severe infections caused by strains of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (ORSE) are very limited. With the increasing resistance of such strains to aminoglycosides, rifampin, and currently available quinolone agents, as well as the recent docu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bayer AS,Li C,Ing M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Staphylococcus aureus was planted on filter membranes placed on Trypticase soy agar (BBL). After incubation, the membranes with growing staphylococci were transferred to Trypticase soy agar containing a subinhibitory concentration of penicillin (one-third minimal inhibitory concentration) and again incubat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lorian V

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00