In Vitro and In Vivo Efficacy of Amphotericin B Combined with Posaconazole against Experimental Disseminated Sporotrichosis.

abstract：:Clofazimine (CFZ) is a poorly soluble antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drug indicated for the treatment of leprosy. In spite of its therapeutic value, CFZ therapy is accompanied by the formation of drug biocrystals that accumulate within resident tissue macrophages, without obvious toxicological manifestations. Theref...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoon GS,Keswani RK,Sud S,Rzeczycki PM,Murashov MD,Koehn TA,Standiford TJ,Stringer KA,Rosania GR

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection are at high risk for developing permanent sequelae. Intravenous ganciclovir therapy is frequently used for the treatment of congenital CMV infection. A target area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h (AUC0-24) of 40 to 50 μg · h/ml is recommended. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dong Q,Leroux S,Shi HY,Xu HY,Kou C,Khan MW,Jacqz-Aigrain E,Zhao W

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Magainins are novel polycationic peptides with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, including activity against gram-negative bacteria. Gram-negative bacteremia can elicit endotoxic shock that is associated with the increased formation of eicosanoids. Inhibition of eicosanoid synthesis has been shown to improve the o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matera G,Cook JA,Geisel J,Ashton SH,Wise WC,Focá A,Berkowitz BA,Halushka PV

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the quorum-sensing (QS) system is closely related to biofilm formation. We previously demonstrated that 14-alpha-lipoyl andrographolide (AL-1) has synergistic effects on antibiofilm and antivirulence factors (pyocyanin and exopolysaccharide) of P. aeruginosa when combined with conventional a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ma L,Liu X,Liang H,Che Y,Chen C,Dai H,Yu K,Liu M,Ma L,Yang CH,Song F,Wang Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles are significantly different in critically ill patients because of the drastic variability of the patients' physiological parameters. Published population PK studies have mainly focused on specific diseases, and the majority of these studies had small sample sizes. The aim of th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen W,Zhang D,Lian W,Wang X,Du W,Zhang Z,Guo D,Zhang X,Zhan Q,Li P

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) threatens global TB control. The lengthy treatment includes one of the injectable drugs kanamycin, amikacin, and capreomycin, usually for the first 6 months. These drugs have potentially serious toxicities, and when given as intramuscular injections, dosing can be painful. Adv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dharmadhikari AS,Kabadi M,Gerety B,Hickey AJ,Fourie PB,Nardell E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Against 307 pneumococci of various resistotypes, dalbavancin MICs were 0.008 to 0.125 microg/ml. All strains were susceptible to vancomycin, teicoplanin, linezolid, and quinupristin-dalfopristin. Dalbavancin at 2x MIC was bactericidal against all 10 pneumococci tested after 24 h. Vancomycin and teicoplanin killed 10 a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lin G,Smith K,Ednie LM,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum genes pfcrt and pfmdr1 are selected by amodiaquine treatment in Africa. To examine the importance of these mutations in amodiaquine-treated Asian parasites, we determined pre- and posttreatment genotypes for amodiaquine treatment failures from a clinical trial in Afghanistan. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beshir K,Sutherland CJ,Merinopoulos I,Durrani N,Leslie T,Rowland M,Hallett RL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of the biofilm layer produced on a plastic surface by 23 clinical isolates and 1 reference strain of slime-positive, coagulase-negative staphylococci was measured following growth in subinhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of cefamandole or vancomycin ranging from 2 to 0.008 micrograms/ml. All strains were...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dunne WM Jr

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three isolates of group A streptococci (GAS) recovered from population-based invasive GAS surveillance in the United States were erythromycin resistant, inducibly clindamycin resistant, and lacked known macrolide resistance determinants. These 23 isolates, representing four different clones, contained a broad-h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Woodbury RL,Klammer KA,Xiong Y,Bailiff T,Glennen A,Bartkus JM,Lynfield R,Van Beneden C,Beall BW,Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Team.

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two groups of chromosomal beta-lactamases from Klebsiella oxytoca (OXY-1 and OXY-2) can be overproduced 73- to 223-fold, due to point mutations in the consensus sequences of their promoters. The different versions of promoters from blaOXY-1 and blaOXY-2 were cloned upstream of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fournier B,Gravel A,Hooper DC,Roy PH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) level can be used to detect acute kidney injury (AKI) earlier than determination of the serum creatinine (SCr) level in settings such as cardiac surgery, contrast nephropathy, and intensive care units. We hypothesized that urine NGAL (UrNGAL) would...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rocha PN,Macedo MN,Kobayashi CD,Moreno L,Guimarães LH,Machado PR,Badaró R,Carvalho EM,Glesby MJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefdinir were investigated in six hemodialysis patients. For the present study, two tests were carried out, one with 4 h of hemodialysis and the other without hemodialysis. Cefdinir was given orally to each patient in a dose of 100 mg, and blood was collected serially for 48 h after dosing in t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hishida A,Ohishi K,Nagashima S,Kanamaru M,Obara M,Kitada A

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of second-line antituberculosis drugs would allow for optimal individualized dosage adjustments and improve drug safety and therapeutic outcomes. To evaluate the pharmacokinetic (PK) characteristics of clinically relevant, multidrug treatment regimens and to improve the feasibility of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Park SI,Oh J,Jang K,Yoon J,Moon SJ,Park JS,Lee JH,Song J,Jang IJ,Yu KS,Chung JY

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current recommendations for intravenous (i.v.) acyclovir dosing in obese patients suggest using ideal body weight (IBW) rather than total body weight (TBW). To our knowledge, no pharmacokinetic analysis has validated this recommendation. This single-dose pharmacokinetic study was conducted in an inpatient oncology...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Turner RB,Cumpston A,Sweet M,Briggs F,Slain D,Wen S,Craig M,Hamadani M,Petros W

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating data have brought the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors (NNRTIs) into the forefront of antiretroviral therapy. Among the emerging compounds in this class, a particularly attractive one is efavirenz (Sustiva), recently approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maga G,Ubiali D,Salvetti R,Pregnolato M,Spadari S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo studies were done on a herpes simplex virus type 2 strain recovered from a patient on acyclovir (ACV) which was ACV resistant but expressed thymidine (dThd) kinase (EC 2.7.1.21) activity. Plaque-purified clones derived from the original clinical sample were heterogeneous with respect to plaque siz...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ellis MN,Keller PM,Fyfe JA,Martin JL,Rooney JF,Straus SE,Lehrman SN,Barry DW

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolactin A (MA) and 7-O-succinyl macrolactin A (SMA), polyene macrolides containing a 24-membered lactone ring, show antibiotic effects superior to those of teicoplanin against vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MA and SMA are currently being evaluated as antitumor age...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bae SH,Kwon MJ,Park JB,Kim D,Kim DH,Kang JS,Kim CG,Oh E,Bae SK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azithromycin is an effective treatment for uncomplicated infections with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and serovar Paratyphi A (enteric fever), but there are no clinically validated MIC and disk zone size interpretative guidelines. We studied individual patient data from three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parry CM,Thieu NT,Dolecek C,Karkey A,Gupta R,Turner P,Dance D,Maude RR,Ha V,Tran CN,Thi PL,Be BP,Phi LT,Ngoc RN,Ghose A,Dongol S,Campbell JI,Thanh DP,Thanh TH,Moore CE,Sona S,Gaind R,Deb M,Anh HV,Van SN,

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the activity of daptomycin against 76 Listeria monocytogenes isolates from cerebrospinal fluid by broth dilution and Etest methods. For the broth dilution method, the MIC range was 1.0 to 8.0 and the MIC at which 90% of the isolates tested were inhibited (MIC(90)) was 4.0 mg/liter. For the Etest method, the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spanjaard L,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INX-08189 is an aryl-phosphoramidate of 6-O-methyl-2'-C-methyl guanosine. INX-08189 was highly potent in replicon assays, with a 50% effective concentration of 10±6 nM against hepatitis C genotype 1b at 72 h. The inhibitory effect on viral replication was rapid, with a 50% effective concentration (EC50) of 35±8 nM at ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vernachio JH,Bleiman B,Bryant KD,Chamberlain S,Hunley D,Hutchins J,Ames B,Gorovits E,Ganguly B,Hall A,Kolykhalov A,Liu Y,Muhammad J,Raja N,Walters CR,Wang J,Williams K,Patti JM,Henson G,Madela K,Aljarah M,Gilles

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) produces two polyproteins, Pr55(Gag) and Pr160(Gag-Pol), that are cleaved into mature functional subunits by the virally encoded protease. Drugs that inhibit this protease are an important part of anti-HIV therapy. We studied the ordered accumulation of Gag and Gag-Pol proce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Speck RR,Flexner C,Tian CJ,Yu XF

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the kelch propeller domain (K13 propeller) of Plasmodium falciparum parasites from Southeast Asia are associated with reduced susceptibility to artemisinin. We exposed in vitro-cultured stage V gametocytes from Cambodian K13 propeller mutant parasites to dihydroartemisinin and evaluated the inhibition of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lozano S,Gamallo P,González-Cortés C,Presa Matilla JL,Fairhurst RM,Herreros E,Amaratunga C,Rodrigues J

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin penetration into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was studied in five critically ill adult patients receiving colistin methanesulfonate for infections by multiresistant gram-negative bacilli. Colistin concentrations were determined in paired serum and CSF samples, with the latter taken by lumbar puncture, with t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Markantonis SL,Markou N,Fousteri M,Sakellaridis N,Karatzas S,Alamanos I,Dimopoulou E,Baltopoulos G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is concern about the rise of antifungal drug resistance, but little is known about comparative biological properties and pathogenicity of drug-resistant strains. We generated fluconazole (FLC; CO23 RFLC)- or micafungin (FK; CO23 RFK)-resistant strains of Candida albicans by treating a FLC- and FK-susceptible str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Angiolella L,Stringaro AR,De Bernardis F,Posteraro B,Bonito M,Toccacieli L,Torosantucci A,Colone M,Sanguinetti M,Cassone A,Palamara AT

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits with nutritionally variant viridans group streptococcal experimental endocarditis were treated three times daily for 3 days with procaine penicillin (1.2 X 10(6) U) alone or together with low-dose streptomycin (2 mg/kg), high-dose streptomycin (8 mg/kg), low-dose gentamicin (0.32 mg/kg), or high-dose gentamici...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Henry NK,Wilson WR,Roberts RB,Acar JF,Geraci JE

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly frequent reports have described the in vivo loss of daptomycin susceptibility in association with clinical treatment failures. The mechanism(s) of daptomycin resistance is not well understood. We studied an isogenic set of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the bloodstream of a daptomycin-treated patient...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones T,Yeaman MR,Sakoulas G,Yang SJ,Proctor RA,Sahl HG,Schrenzel J,Xiong YQ,Bayer AS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied in vitro evolution to an Escherichia coli strain containing bla(CTX-M-2) and obtained 10 independent mutant bla(CTX-M-2) alleles that confer elevated resistance to ceftazidime (MIC > or = 32 microg/ml) but lost the ability to confer resistance to cefepime. All alleles had a Pro-to-Ser substitution at positi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Welsh KJ,Barlow M,Tenover FC,Biddle JW,Rasheed JK,Clark LA,McGowan JE Jr

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro activities of erythromycin A, telithromycin, and two investigational ketolides, JNJ-17155437 and JNJ-17155528, were evaluated against clinical bacterial strains, including selected common respiratory tract pathogens. Against 46 macrolide-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains, the MIC(90)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Abbanat D,Webb G,Foleno B,Li Y,Macielag M,Montenegro D,Wira E,Bush K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00