Commensal streptococci serve as a reservoir for β-lactam resistance genes in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

abstract：:We have conducted experiments to determine if one daily injection of netilmicin (NET) would be synergistic with the broad-spectrum cephalosporin ceftriaxone (CRO) in the treatment of experimentally induced endocarditis. Rats with catheter-induced aortic vegetations were infected intravenously with 3 x 10(7) CFU of a b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Francioli PB,Glauser MP

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized, evaluator-blind, multicenter trial, we compared cefepime (2 g three times a day) with imipenem-cilastatin (500 mg four times a day) for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia in 281 intensive care unit patients from 13 centers in six European countries. Of 209 patients eligible for per-protocol analysi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zanetti G,Bally F,Greub G,Garbino J,Kinge T,Lew D,Romand JA,Bille J,Aymon D,Stratchounski L,Krawczyk L,Rubinstein E,Schaller MD,Chiolero R,Glauser MP,Cometta A,Cefepime Study Group,.

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of dermatophytoses, including onychomycosis, has come a long way over the past few decades with the introduction of oral antifungals (e.g., terbinafine and itraconazole). However, with these advancements in oral therapies come several undesirable effects, such as kidney and liver toxicity, along with dru...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Long L,Hager C,Ghannoum M

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of two N,N'-bis(benzyl)-substituted polyamine analogs on the capacities of Trypanosoma cruzi to invade and multiply within a mammalian host cell. At concentrations as low as 1 microM, these compounds reduced significantly the infectivity of the parasite for rat heart myoblasts in a time-dependen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Majumder S,Kierszenbaum F

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Beta-D-1',3'-Dioxolane guanosine (DXG) and 2,6-diaminopurine (DAPD) dioxolanyl nucleoside analogues have been reported to be potent inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We have recently conducted experiments to more fully characterize their in vitro anti-HIV-1 profiles. Antiviral assays perfo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gu Z,Wainberg MA,Nguyen-Ba N,L'Heureux L,de Muys JM,Bowlin TL,Rando RF

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azoles are widely used antifungals; however, their efficacy is compromised by fungistatic activity and selection of resistant strains during treatment. Recent studies demonstrated roles for the protein kinase C and calcium signaling pathways in modulating azole activity. Here we explored a role for the signaling pathw...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jain P,Akula I,Edlind T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of gentamicin was compared with its therapeutic efficacy in rabbits with Streptococcus faecalis endocarditis. The test strain was resistant to gentamicin as measured by MICs and MBCs determined in Mueller-Hinton broth alone or in broth supplemented with 50% rabbit serum. Gentamicin also failed to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sullam PM,Täuber MG,Hackbarth CJ,Sande MA

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes (rpsL and rrs) with mutations associated with streptomycin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis were characterized in 78 streptomycin-resistant and 61 streptomycin-susceptible isolates recovered from patients living in the United States, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Fifty-four percent of the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sreevatsan S,Pan X,Stockbauer KE,Williams DL,Kreiswirth BN,Musser JM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The semen-derived enhancer of viral infection (SEVI) is a positively charged amyloid fibril that is derived from a self-assembling proteolytic cleavage fragment of prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP(248-286)). SEVI efficiently facilitates HIV-1 infection in vitro, but its normal physiologic function remains unknown. In l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Easterhoff D,Ontiveros F,Brooks LR,Kim Y,Ross B,Silva JN,Olsen JS,Feng C,Hardy DJ,Dunman PM,Dewhurst S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of intravenous peramivir against influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus infection was evaluated in mice in which the immune system was suppressed by cyclophosphamide (CP) treatment. The mortality rate of the vehicle control group was 100%, and the mice lost 20% of their body weight on average by day 13 postinfecti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitano M,Kodama M,Itoh Y,Kanazu T,Kobayashi M,Yoshida R,Sato A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standardized direct disk diffusion antibiotic susceptibility testing on monomicrobial urine specimens is compared with the Food and Drug Administration method. The direct procedure yields acceptable data and may conserve 24 h in reporting results. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wegner DL,Neblett TR

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide susceptibility survey of the Bacteroides fragilis group was continued at New England Medical Center in 1983. A total of 555 strains were obtained from eight centers in the United States. In addition to the nine antimicrobial agents studied in the two previous years, three other agents were added to the ev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tally FP,Cuchural GJ Jr,Jacobus NV,Gorbach SL,Aldridge K,Cleary T,Finegold SM,Hill G,Iannini P,O'Keefe JP

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrosequencing was used to detect rapidly and estimate the number of 23S rRNA genes with a G2576T mutation in 43 linezolid-resistant and -susceptible clinical isolates of enterococci. The method showed 100% concordance with PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism for detecting isolates homozygous for either G2576...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sinclair A,Arnold C,Woodford N

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 11 fluoroquinolone antibacterial agents, including 8 newly synthesized molecules and 3 reference compounds (pefloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and sparfloxacin), were tested for their MICs against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The intracellular accumulation of fluoroquinolone...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bazile S,Moreau N,Bouzard D,Essiz M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the fast-growing species Mycobacterium abscessus are two important human pathogens causing persistent pulmonary infections that are difficult to cure and require long treatment times. The emergence of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains and the high level of intrinsic resistance of M....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gupta R,Rodrigues Felix C,Akerman MP,Akerman KJ,Slabber CA,Wang W,Adams J,Shaw LN,Tse-Dinh YC,Munro OQ,Rohde KH

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfide production has been proposed to be a universal defense mechanism against antibiotics in bacteria (K. Shatalin, E. Shatalina, A. Mironov, and E. Nudler, Science 334:986-990, 2011, doi:10.1126/science.1209855). To gain insight into the mechanism underlying sulfide protection, we systematically and comparatively ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weikum J,Ritzmann N,Jelden N,Klöckner A,Herkersdorf S,Josten M,Sahl HG,Grein F

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:BAL5788 is the water-soluble prodrug of BAL9141, a novel broad-spectrum cephalosporin with potent bactericidal activities against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. We investigated the safety and pharmacokinetics of BAL5788 in a double-blind, single-as...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schmitt-Hoffmann A,Roos B,Schleimer M,Sauer J,Man A,Nashed N,Brown T,Perez A,Weidekamm E,Kovács P

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：: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：:To date, the majority of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) discussions have focused on PK/PD relationships evaluated at steady-state drug concentrations. However, a concern with reliance upon steady-state drug concentrations is that it ignores events occurring while the pathogen is exposed to intermittent subopt...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martinez MN,Papich MG,Drusano GL

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human norovirus (HuNoV) is a major cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, yet despite its impact on society, vaccines and antivirals are currently lacking. A HuNoV replicon system has been widely applied to the evaluation of antiviral compounds and has thus accelerated the process of drug discovery against H...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitano M,Hosmillo M,Emmott E,Lu J,Goodfellow I

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriolytic antibiotics cause the release of bacterial components that augment the host inflammatory response, which in turn contributes to the pathophysiology of brain injury in bacterial meningitis. In the present study, antibiotic therapy with nonbacteriolytic daptomycin was compared with that of bacteriolytic ce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grandgirard D,Schürch C,Cottagnoud P,Leib SL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin, a principal component of turmeric, acts as an immunomodulator regulating the host defenses in response to a diseased condition. The role of curcumin in controlling certain infectious diseases is highly controversial. It is known to alleviate symptoms of Helicobacter pylori infection and exacerbate that of Le...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marathe SA,Sen M,Dasgupta I,Chakravortty D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five R plasmids transferred from Asian strains of Vibrio cholerae all proved to be members of compatibility group C. A non-self-transmissible plasmid, stable in V. cholerae, was mobilized for transfer to Escherichia coli K-12 and found to be unstably inherited in that host. Plasmids of group C and P transferred to a w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hedges RW,Vialard JL,Pearson NJ,O'Grady F

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one children <8 years of age treated for brucellosis with oral minocycline (2.5 mg/kg) twice daily for 3 weeks were recalled and examined to check for dental staining and defects. Dental staining and defects were found in 14 of 41 exposed children (34.1%) and in 30 of 82 matched controls (36.6%), respectively (P...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cascio A,Di Liberto C,D'Angelo M,Iaria C,Scarlata F,Titone L,Campisi G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the in vitro susceptibilities of three reference strains and 41 recent clinical isolates of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 to 5-ethyl-2'-deoxyuridine. This thymidine analog exerts a type 2-preferential but not a type 2-specific antiviral effect. Utilizing a microtiter assay with BHK-21 cells, we found ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Teh CZ,Sacks SL

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey conducted between 1987 and 1994 at the University Hospital of Besançon, France, demonstrated a dramatic increase (from 0 to 42. 5%) in the prevalence of amoxicillin resistance among Salmonella spp. Of the 96 resistant isolates collected during this period (including 77 Typhimurium), 54 were found to produce T...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Llanes C,Kirchgesner V,Plesiat P

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty volunteers randomly assigned to one of five hand washing agents (10 subjects per agent)--a nonantiseptic liquid soap (control), an antiseptic hand rinse containing 60% isopropyl alcohol (IPA) with emollients (Alc A), an antiseptic hand rinse containing 70% IPA and 0.5% chlorhexidine gluconate with emollients (Al...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Larson EL,Eke PI,Laughon BE

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-l-2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxy-N(4)-hydroxycytidine (l-Hyd4C) was demonstrated to be an effective and highly selective inhibitor of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication in HepG2.2.15 cells (50% effective dose [ED(50)] = 0.03 microM; 50% cytotoxic dose [CD(50)] = 2,500 microM). In the present study, we investigate...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matthes E,Bünger H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient and reproducible procedure was developed for extracting aminoglycosides from renal cortical tissue. It involves a double homogenization and two rinsings with trichloroacetic acid. A higher recovery is obtained compared with that of other previously reported methods. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giuliano RA,Verpooten GA,Pollet DE,Verbist L,Scharpé SL,De Broe ME

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00