Efficacy of tigecycline for secondary Acinetobacter bacteremia and factors associated with treatment failure.

abstract：:Delafloxacin, an investigational anionic fluoroquinolone, is active against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. In this study, 200 Streptococcus pneumoniae (plus 30 levofloxacin-resistant isolates), 200 Haemophilus influenzae, and 100 Moraxella catarrhalis isolates selected primarily from the Un...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Flamm RK,Rhomberg PR,Huband MD,Farrell DJ

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An observational study assessed the longitudinal use of a new line probe assay for the detection of protease mutations. Probe assays for detection of reverse transcriptase (Inno-LiPA HIV-1 RT; Innogenetics) and protease (prototype kit Inno-LiPA HIV Protease; Innogenetics) mutations gave results for 177 of 199 sequenti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Servais J,Lambert C,Plesséria JM,Fontaine E,Robert I,Arendt V,Staub T,Hemmer R,Schneider F,Schmit JC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 18-amino-acid cationic, tryptophan-rich ApoEdpL-W peptide derived from human ApoE apolipoprotein was shown to have antifungal activity against pathogenic yeasts of the Candida genus (except C. glabrata). ApoEdpL-W was active against planktonic cells and early-stage biofilms but less active against mature biofilms,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rossignol T,Kelly B,Dobson C,d'Enfert C

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1891 Guttmann and Ehrlich (P. Guttmann and P. Ehrlich, Berlin Klin. Wochenschr. 28:953-956, 1891) were the first to report the antimalarial properties of a synthetic, rather than a natural, material when they described the clinical cure of two patients after oral administration of a thiazine dye, methylene blue. Si...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vennerstrom JL,Makler MT,Angerhofer CK,Williams JA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen and leading cause of health care-associated infections. Daily chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing of patients is generally regarded as an effective strategy to reduce the occurrence of health care-associated infections. It is likely that E. faecalis is frequently ex...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li FJ,Palmer KL

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first IMP metallo-beta-lactamase in Aeromonas caviae: IMP-19, which differed from IMP-2 by a single amino acid change (Arg to Ala at position 38). bla(IMP-19) was found within a class 1 integron located on a 35-kb plasmid. This is also the first description of an IMP producer in France. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neuwirth C,Siebor E,Robin F,Bonnet R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretomanid was approved by the U.S. FDA, via the limited population pathway for antibacterial and antifungal drugs, as part of a three-drug regimen with bedaquiline and linezolid for the treatment of extensively drug-resistant and treatment-intolerant or nonresponsive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. The recommended ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nedelman JR,Salinger DH,Subramoney V,Woolson R,Wade K,Li M,Everitt D,Mendel CM,Spigelman M

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Women in the second half of pregnancy, who were infected with genital mycoplasmas and who gave written informed consent, were randomly assigned to receive capsules of identical appearance containing erythromycin estolate, clindamycin hydrochloride, or a placebo for 6 weeks. Levels of serum glutamic oxalacetic transami...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCormack WM,George H,Donner A,Kodgis LF,Alpert S,Lowe EW,Kass EH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demethylchlortetracycline and, to a lesser extent, chlortetracycline were found to mediate the in vitro photoinactivation of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Esparza J,Pina CI,Novo E

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike most antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), the main mode of action of the subclass of proline-rich antimicrobial peptides (PrAMPs) is not based on disruption of the bacterial membrane. Instead, PrAMPs exploit the inner membrane transporters SbmA and YjiL/MdtM to pass through the bacterial membrane and enter the cytoso...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mardirossian M,Barrière Q,Timchenko T,Müller C,Pacor S,Mergaert P,Scocchi M,Wilson DN

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba spp. are the causative agents of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), which mainly occurs in contact lens wearers, and of skin lesions, granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), and disseminating diseases in the immunocompromised host. AK therapy is complex and irritating for the eye, skin lesions are difficult t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fürnkranz U,Nagl M,Gottardi W,Köhsler M,Aspöck H,Walochnik J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to develop a population pharmacokinetic model and to determine a dosing regimen for caspofungin in critically ill patients. Nine blood samples were drawn per dosing occasion. Fifteen patients with (suspected) invasive candidiasis had one dosing occasion and five had two dosing occasions...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Märtson AG,van der Elst KCM,Veringa A,Zijlstra JG,Beishuizen A,van der Werf TS,Kosterink JGW,Neely M,Alffenaar JW

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and tolerability of a new parenteral carbapenem antibiotic, biapenem (L-627), were studied in healthy elderly volunteers aged 65 to 74 years (71.6 +/- 2.7 years [mean +/- standard deviation], n = 5; group B) and > or = 75 years (77.8 +/- 1.9 years, n = 5; group C), following single intravenous dos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kozawa O,Uematsu T,Matsuno H,Niwa M,Takiguchi Y,Matsumoto S,Minamoto M,Niida Y,Yokokawa M,Nagashima S,Kanamaru M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-nucleoside analogs are a new class of antiviral and anticancer agents, several of which are currently used in the clinic. The phosphorylation of these agents to the triphosphate form is thought to be important for exertion of their pharmacological activities. 1-(2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-beta-L-arabinofuranosyl)-5-methylur...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hu R,Li L,Degrève B,Dutschman GE,Lam W,Cheng YC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the carbapenemase gene blaOXA-499, a variant of blaOXA-143, from a clinical isolate of Acinetobacter pittii for the first time. OXA-499 shared 93.1% amino acid identity with OXA-143, and the gene was located on the chromosome. By cloning the OXA-499-encoding gene into the pWH1266 vector and transforming ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： D'Souza R,Pinto NA,Higgins PG,Hwang I,Yong D,Choi J,Lee K,Chong Y

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Disk diffusion antibiotic susceptibility tests as performed by the hospital diagnostic microbiology laboratory were read at 4, 8, and 12 h of incubation and compared to the traditional 18-h readings. Both the zone size in millimeters and a judgement of susceptible or resistant were recorded by the investigator at each...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kluge RM

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae strains of serogroups O1 and O139, the causative agents of the diarrheal illness cholera, express a single polar flagellum powered by sodium motive force and require motility to colonize and spread along the small intestine. In a previous study, we described a high-throughput assay for screening for sm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang H,Zhang L,Silva AJ,Benitez JA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics, oral bioavailability, and ex vivo antimalarial activity of mirincamycin isomers in a healthy rhesus monkey model were assessed to support lead optimization of novel nonhemolytic drugs for radical cure and causal prophylaxis of malaria. Fourteen male rhesus monkeys were randomized to four groups, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khemawoot P,Saunders D,Rasameesoraj M,Melendez V,Imerbsin R,Ohrt C,Fracisco S,Teja-Isavadharm P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intragastric inoculation of mice with Klebsiella pneumoniae can cause liver abscesses, necrosis of liver tissues, and bacteremia. A newly isolated phage (φNK5) with lytic activity for K. pneumoniae was used to treat K. pneumoniae infection in an intragastric model. Both intraperitoneal and intragastric administration ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hung CH,Kuo CF,Wang CH,Wu CM,Tsao N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine in vitro screening of a new synthetic series of 3,5-substituted 2-methylisoxazolidines revealed that three imidazole analogs (PR 967-248, PR 967-234, and PR 969-566) and, to a lesser extent, a triazole analog (PR 988-399) exerted rather potent antifungal activity against three systemic and four dermatophytic c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Palmer GC,Ordy MJ,Simmons RD,Strand JC,Radov LA,Mullen GB,Kinsolving CR,St Georgiev V,Mitchell JT,Allen SD

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii synthesizes sterols with a double bond at C-7 of the sterol nucleus and an alkyl group with one or two carbons at C-24 of the side chain. Also, some human-derived Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis strains contain lanosterol derivatives with an alkyl group at C-24. These unique sterols have not b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaneshiro ES,Collins MS,Cushion MT

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radical-based theory proposes that three major classes of bactericidal antibiotics, i.e., β-lactams, quinolones, and aminoglycosides, have in common the downstream formation of lethal levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as part of the killing mechanism. If bactericidal antibiotics exhibit a common mechanism, t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hoeksema M,Brul S,Ter Kuile BH

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial resistance studies using in vitro dynamic models are highly dependent on the starting inoculum that might or might not contain spontaneously resistant mutants (RMs). To delineate concentration-resistance relationships with linezolid-exposed Staphylococcus aureus, a mixed inoculum containing both susceptible ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Firsov AA,Golikova MV,Strukova EN,Portnoy YA,Romanov AV,Edelstein MV,Zinner SH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial adaptation to external stresses and toxic compounds is a key step in the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains that are a serious threat to human health. Although some of the proteins and regulators involved in antibiotic resistance mechanisms have been described, no information is available to date conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dupont M,James CE,Chevalier J,Pagès JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal biofilms on surgical implants are the underlying cause of a lack of response to antimicrobial treatment. We investigated the effects of vancomycin (VAN), daptomycin (DAP), fosfomycin (FOS), tigecycline (TGC), and ceftriaxone (CRX), alone and in combination with azithromycin (AZI), on established biofilm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Presterl E,Hajdu S,Lassnigg AM,Hirschl AM,Holinka J,Graninger W

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacokinetic modeling has often been applied to evaluate vancomycin pharmacokinetics in neonates. However, clinical application of the model-based personalized vancomycin therapy is still limited. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the clinical utility and safety of a model-based patient-tailored do...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Leroux S,Jacqz-Aigrain E,Biran V,Lopez E,Madeleneau D,Wallon C,Zana-Taïeb E,Virlouvet AL,Rioualen S,Zhao W

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Gatifloxacin (GTX), a new fluoroquinolone with extended antibacterial activity, is an interesting candidate for the treatment of chronic bacterial prostatitis (CBP). Besides the antibacterial spectrum, the concentrations in the target tissues and fluids are crucial for the treatment of CBP. Thus, it was of interest to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Naber CK,Steghafner M,Kinzig-Schippers M,Sauber C,Sörgel F,Stahlberg HJ,Naber KG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenemases are among the newest resistance mechanisms to emerge in some gram-negative bacteria. We describe bacteremia in a critically ill liver transplant recipient infected with KPC-2-producing Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas putida. Although this enzyme has been previously described in Enterobacter spp., t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bennett JW,Herrera ML,Lewis JS 2nd,Wickes BW,Jorgensen JH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal gyrA gene sequence data, MICs, and mouse infection were used to define the ciprofloxacin breakpoint for Neisseria meningitidis. Residue T91 or D95 of GyrA was altered in all meningococcal isolates with MICs of ≥ 0.064 μg/ml but not among isolates with MICs of ≤ 0.032 μg/ml. Experimental infection of cipr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hong E,Thulin Hedberg S,Abad R,Fazio C,Enríquez R,Deghmane AE,Jolley KA,Stefanelli P,Unemo M,Vazquez JA,Veyrier FJ,Taha MK

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and therapeutic efficacy of gentamicin were investigated in an experimental pleural empyema rabbit model. Pleural effusion was induced by the intrapleural administration of turpentine, and empyema was induced by direct inoculation of the effusion with Klebsiella pneumoniae. Pleural empyema compare...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shohet I,Yellin A,Meyerovitch J,Rubinstein E

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00