Fluconazole Susceptibility in Cryptococcus gattii Is Dependent on the ABC Transporter Pdr11.

abstract：:BAL fluid samples from critically ill patients shared a rate of 29% false-positive galactomannan results. We aimed to determine whether Candida species abundance in BAL fluid causes galactomannan (GM) positivity. A total of 89 Candida culture-positive BAL fluid samples from patients without suspicion of invasive asper...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aigner M,Wanner M,Kreidl P,Lass-Flörl C,Lackner M

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new strategy for predicting novel antibiotic mechanisms of action based on the analysis of whole-genome microarray data. We first built up a reference compendium of Bacillus subtilis expression profiles induced by 14 different antibiotics. This data set was expanded by adding expression profiles from muta...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Freiberg C,Fischer HP,Brunner NA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enucleated human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN cytoplasts), which have no nuclei and only a few granules, retain many of the functions of intact neutrophils. To better define the mechanisms and intracellular sites of antimicrobial agent accumulation in human neutrophils, we studied the antibiotic uptake process in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hand WL,King-Thompson NL

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen the rapid advancement of new therapeutic agents against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in response to the need for treatment that is unmet by interferon (IFN)-based therapies. Most antiviral drugs discovered to date are small molecules that modulate viral enzyme activities. In the search for highly sel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cheng Y,Tsou LK,Cai J,Aya T,Dutschman GE,Gullen EA,Grill SP,Chen AP,Lindenbach BD,Hamilton AD,Cheng YC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the study were to investigate the prevalence of azole resistance among Aspergillus fumigatus clinical isolates. A total of 533 clinical isolates that had been collected between 1995 and 2006, from 441 patients, were screened. No resistance was detected in isolates collected between 1995 and 1997. Starting ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lazzarini C,Esposto MC,Prigitano A,Cogliati M,De Lorenzis G,Tortorano AM

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 521 unique clinical isolates from cancer patients with primarily (>90%) bloodstream infections were tested for susceptibility to ceftazidime-avibactam and comparators using broth microdilution methods. Ceftazidime-avibactam inhibited 97.8% of all Enterobacteriaceae (n = 321) at the susceptibility breakpoint...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hachem R,Reitzel R,Rolston K,Chaftari AM,Raad I

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:HMR 3647 (telithromycin), a new ketolide, is active on intracellular pathogens. It was previously demonstrated that it inhibits superoxide anion production in a time- and concentration-dependent manner, at concentrations which inhibit 50% of the control response of about 55 microg/ml (5 min) to 30 microg/ml (30 min); ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vazifeh D,Abdelghaffar H,Labro MT

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefiderocol is a siderophore cephalosporin active against many multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative pathogens. We examined the resistance mechanisms in 12 Acinetobacter baumannii strains with cefiderocol MICs ranging from ≤0.03 to >32 μg/ml. Cefiderocol resistance could not be explained by β-lactamase activity. Cef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malik S,Kaminski M,Landman D,Quale J

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of exacerbations of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is highly challenging due to hypermutability, biofilm formation, and an increased risk of resistance emergence. We evaluated the impact of ciprofloxacin and meropenem as monotherapy and in combination in the d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bilal H,Bergen PJ,Tait JR,Wallis SC,Peleg AY,Roberts JA,Oliver A,Nation RL,Landersdorfer CB

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian serum amyloid A (SAA) is a major acute phase protein that shows a massive increase in plasma concentration during inflammation. In the present study, we demonstrate that the expression of mouse SAA1 in serum was increased when infected with Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen, in a systemic infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gong J,Wu J,Ikeh M,Tao L,Zhang Y,Bing J,Nobile CJ,Huang G

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten (0.05%) of 18,628 strains of Streptococcus pyogenes isolated from clinical specimens in the 3 years 1968 to 1970 were resistant to lincomycin and erythromycin. All 10 strains were highly resistant to lincomycin, having minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of 200 mug/ml. There were two degrees of resistanc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dixon JM,Lipinski AE

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actithiazic acid and alpha-methyldethiobiotin inhibited the conversion of dethiobiotin to biotin resting-cell suspensions of Escherichia coli. The concentrations which effected 50% inhibition were 0.45 and 1.1 microM for actithiazic acid and alpha-methyldethiobiotin, respectively. Cells grown in low concentrations of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eisenberg MA,Hsiung SC

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication complexes of hepatitis C virus synthesized two major species of viral RNA in vitro, double stranded and single stranded. NS5B nonnucleoside inhibitors inhibited dose dependently the synthesis of single-stranded RNA but not double-stranded RNA. Moreover, replication complexes carrying a mutation resistant t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang W,Sun Y,Phadke A,Deshpande M,Huang M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin entrapped within stable multilamellar liposomes was used to treat mice after they were infected per os with Salmonella dublin. Of 10 mice, 8 survived after a single intravenous (i.v.) injection of 2 mg of gentamicin liposomes per kg compared with 0 of 10 treated with the same amount of free gentamicin. All ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fierer J,Hatlen L,Lin JP,Estrella D,Mihalko P,Yau-Young A

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:We evaluated the potency of garenoxacin in selecting resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae mutants by determining its mutant prevention concentration, using strains with and without topoisomerase gene mutations, and compared its potency to that of other quinolones. Garenoxacin had a significantly greater potency against ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yamamoto K,Yanagihara K,Sugahara K,Imamura Y,Seki M,Izumikawa K,Kakeya H,Yamamoto Y,Hirakata Y,Kamihira S,Kohno S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penamaldic derivatives of amoxicillin, ampicillin, and penicillins G and V, stabilized with Zn(2+), were obtained from a methanolic medium. The enzymatic kinetic results show that the these derivatives elicit reversible inhibition of the enzyme metallo-beta-lactamase from Bacillus cereus, with inhibition constant ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Navarro PG,Osso BQ,Ortiz RG,Martínez De Las Parras PJ,Martínez Puentedura MI,Cabeza González MC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the stability of a plasmid pCP53-mcr1_3 encoding mcr-1 and mcr-3.19 with and without colistin exposure during cultural passages via S1-pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and nanopore MinION sequencing. Both mcr-1 and mcr-3.19 were missing in certain subclones, mediated by genetic excision (ISApl1...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhang P,Bai L,Li Y,Wang Z,Li R

更新日期：2019-08-23 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：:SCY-078 is an orally active antifungal whose target is the β-(1,3)-d-glucan synthase (GS). We evaluated the spontaneous emergence of SCY-078-resistant Candida glabrata isolates following drug exposure in vitro Resistant isolates were analyzed using broth microdilution methodology and FKS sequencing. The kinetic inhibi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jiménez-Ortigosa C,Perez WB,Angulo D,Borroto-Esoda K,Perlin DS

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae has increased in the Far East to the point that penicillin can no longer be recommended as the drug of choice, mandating a change to spectinomycin. As part of an ongoing surveillance of antibiotic susceptibilities, minimal inhibitory concentrations of penicillin, tetracycl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Piziak MV,Woodbury C,Berliner D,Takafuji E,Kirkpatrick J,Opal S,Tramont E

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderately penicillin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis was responsible for an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1993. We tested fully susceptible and moderately resistant strains of N. meningitidis against ciprofloxacin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, chloramphenicol, penicillin, and ri...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blondeau JM,Yaschuk Y

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed the enzymatic basis and molecular epidemiology of amoxicillin-clavulanate-resistant Escherichia coli isolated by the microbiology laboratory of a United States tertiary care hospital. From October 1998 to December 1999, all E. coli isolates were screened for ampicillin-sulbactam resistance. Of 283 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaye KS,Gold HS,Schwaber MJ,Venkataraman L,Qi Y,De Girolami PC,Samore MH,Anderson G,Rasheed JK,Tenover FC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonism of antibiotic activity by peritoneal dialysate has been postulated to be a cause of failure of treatment of peritonitis complicating continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. We evaluated by a case-control study whether unexpected treatment failure could be attributed to such antagonism. Bacteria isolated ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ludlam H,Johnston L,Hopkins P

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of trimethoprim (TMP) and sulfamethoxazole (SMZ), alone and in combination (SMZ-TMP), and of the following antibiotics were tested against 115 clinical isolates of nontyphoid Salmonella species: tobramycin, gentamicin, ampicillin, amoxicillin, neomycin, kanamycin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline. The ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marks MI,Kazemi M,MacKay E

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of piperaquine (PQ) into breast milk was examined in 27 Papua New Guinean women given a 3-day course of dihydroartemisinin-PQ or sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine-PQ during the second/third trimester. Breast milk was sampled on days 1, 2, 3 to 5, 7 to 11, and 14 to 17 postdelivery, a median of 70 days postdose (range...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moore BR,Salman S,Benjamin J,Page-Sharp M,Yadi G,Batty KT,Siba PM,Mueller I,Davis TM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluoroquinolone (FQ) resistance rate of 5.9% is reported in 205 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients presenting to field clinics in Karachi, Pakistan (2006 to 2009). FQ resistance among multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains was 11.1% (5/45), and it was 4.9% (5/103) in M. tuberculosis strains susceptible to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rafiq Y,Jabeen K,Hasan R,Jafri S,Laiq R,Malik F,Mangi R,Channa A,Hasan Z

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minibacterium massiliensis strain CIP107820 is a recently discovered waterborne Gram-negative rod isolated from hospital water samples. It harbors a chromosomally located gene encoding an Ambler class A extended-spectrum β-lactamase termed MIN-1, sharing 56%, 54%, and 51% amino acid identities with β-lactamases LUT-1,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bercot B,Nordmann P,Drancourt M,Poirel L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Nonadecynoic acid (6-NDA), a plant-derived acetylenic acid, exhibits strong inhibitory activity against the human fungal pathogens Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. In the present study, transcriptional profiling coupled with mutant and biochemical analyses were conducted usin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xu T,Tripathi SK,Feng Q,Lorenz MC,Wright MA,Jacob MR,Mask MM,Baerson SR,Li XC,Clark AM,Agarwal AK

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to 5-fluorocytosine was studied in 137 independent Candida albicans clinical isolates. Seventy-eight isolates (57%) were susceptible; 51 isolates (37%) were partially resistant; 8 isolates (6%) were highly resistant. All partially resistant isolates gave rise to variants which were highly resistant. Some su...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Defever KS,Whelan WL,Rogers AL,Beneke ES,Veselenak JM,Soll DR

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00