First report of macrolide resistance gene erm(T) harbored by a novel small plasmid from Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.

abstract：:The Carba NP test was evaluated against a panel of 244 carbapenemase- and non-carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. We confirmed the 100% specificity and positive predictive value of the test, but the sensitivity and negative predictive value were 72.5% and 69.2%, respectively...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tijet N,Boyd D,Patel SN,Mulvey MR,Melano RG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of four antifungal agents against 15 systemic (blood and vascular catheter) and 10 superficial (skin) Malassezia furfur isolates was evaluated. MIC ranges were similar for the two groups of organisms: amphotericin B, 0.3 to 2.5 micrograms/ml; flucytosine, greater than 100 micrograms/ml; miconazole, 0.4 to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marcon MJ,Durrell DE,Powell DA,Buesching WJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morbidity and mortality resulting from influenza-like disease are a threat, especially for older adults. To improve case management, next-generation broad-spectrum antiviral therapeutics that are efficacious against major drivers of influenza-like disease, including influenza viruses and respiratory syncytial virus (R...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoon JJ,Toots M,Lee S,Lee ME,Ludeke B,Luczo JM,Ganti K,Cox RM,Sticher ZM,Edpuganti V,Mitchell DG,Lockwood MA,Kolykhalov AA,Greninger AL,Moore ML,Painter GR,Lowen AC,Tompkins SM,Fearns R,Natchus MG,Plemper RK

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the efficacies of cefotaxime (CTX) and amoxicillin (AMX)-clavulanate (CLA) (AMC) against extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli in vitro and in a murine model of urinary tract infection (UTI). MICs, the checkerboard dilution method, and time-kill curves were used to explore the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rossi B,Soubirou JF,Chau F,Massias L,Dion S,Lepeule R,Fantin B,Lefort A

更新日期：2015-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of gatifloxacin therapy (15 mg/kg every 5 h [q5h]) was compared with that of meropenem (75 mg/kg q5h) and cefotaxime (75 mg/kg q5h) therapy in experimental meningitis caused by a beta-lactamase-producing strain of Escherichia coli. Gatifloxacin therapy was more rapidly bactericidal than cefotaxime bu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lutsar I,Friedland IR,Jafri HS,Wubbel L,Ng W,Ghaffar F,McCracken GH Jr

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine clinical isolates of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii were obtained from 12 hospitals in 7 prefectures throughout Japan. Molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed the clonal spread of A. baumannii sequence type 208 (ST208) and ST455 isolates harboring the armA gene and ST512 harboring the armA and...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tada T,Miyoshi-Akiyama T,Shimada K,Shimojima M,Kirikae T

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of >30 effective drugs for managing HIV-1 infection, no current therapy is curative, and long-term management is challenging owing to the emergence and spread of drug-resistant mutants. Identification of drugs against novel HIV-1 targets would expand the current treatment options and help to c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Halambage UD,Wong JP,Melancon BJ,Lindsley CW,Aiken C

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An agar dilution method was employed to test the susceptibility of 12 strains of Coccidioides immitis to polymyxin B (PB). After 3 days of incubation, eight strains were markedly inhibited by 5.0 mug of PB per ml and four strains did not grow. PB at 10 mug/ml inhibited the growth of all strains through 20 days of incu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Collins MS,Pappagianis D

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) does not infect or replicate in nonhuman cells and tissues, there are few animal models currently available for evaluation of antiviral therapies for these infections. In the present studies, we utilized two different models in which severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice were i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kern ER,Hartline CB,Rybak RJ,Drach JC,Townsend LB,Biron KK,Bidanset DJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-associated infections due to Escherichia coli producing CTX-M-type extended-spectrum β-lactamases are increasingly recognized in the United States. The bla(CTX-M) genes are frequently carried on IncF group plasmids. In this study, bla(CTX-M-15)-harboring plasmids pCA14 (sequence type 131 [ST131]) and pCA28 (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li JJ,Spychala CN,Hu F,Sheng JF,Doi Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral pathogens causing global disease burdens are often characterized by high rates of evolutionary changes. The extensive viral diversity at baseline can shorten the time to escape from therapeutic or immune selective pressure and alter mutational pathways. The impact of genotypic background on the barrier to resist...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Theys K,Libin PJK,Van Laethem K,Abecasis AB

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane fraction from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KM 338 was shown to catalyze in vitro peptidoglycan synthesis from uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanyl-d- glutamyl-meso-diaminopimelyl-d-alanyl-d-alanine and uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine. Synthesized peptidoglycan was partially cross-linked by t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Suginaka H,Ichikawa A,Kotani S

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC) treatment of interferon (IF) inducers was studied both in vitro and in vivo. DEPC did not affect the antiviral activity of poly(I.C), statolon, or reovirus in cultured chicken embryo fibroblast cells, but the activities of poly(I.C), statolon, and MU9 replicative form in cultured mouse embr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yamamura Y,Cochran KW

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of gentamicin from renal cortical tissue (assayed by fluorescence polarization immunoassay) was highest (P less than 0.05) when using a sodium hydroxide (NaOH) digestion procedure without homogenization (90.0 +/- 5.4%), followed by homogenization with NaOH digestion (85.8 +/- 7.7%) and homogenization with tri...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brown SA,Sugimoto K,Smith GG,Garry FB

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacodynamics of gemifloxacin against Streptococcus pneumoniae were investigated in a dilutional pharmacodynamic model of infection. Dose fractionation was used to simulate concentrations of gemifloxacin in human serum associated with 640 mg every 48 h (one dose), 320 mg every 24 h (two doses), and 160 mg every...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： MacGowan AP,Rogers CA,Holt HA,Wootton M,Bowker KE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the first autochthonous cases of infections caused by blaNDM-5 New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli strains recovered from urine and blood specimens of three patients from Algeria between January 2012 and February 2013. The three isolates belong to sequence type 2659 and they coexpr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sassi A,Loucif L,Gupta SK,Dekhil M,Chettibi H,Rolain JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty years after the last endemic smallpox case, variola virus (VARV) is still considered a major threat to humans due to its possible use as a bioterrorism agent. For many years, the risk of disease reemergence was thought to solely be through deliberate misuse of VARV strains kept in clandestine laboratories. Howev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Delaune D,Iseni F

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:2'-Deoxy-2'-fluorocytidine (FdC) is a potent inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus RNA replicon in culture, and FdC-5'-triphosphate is an effective inhibitor of the NS5B polymerase. Dynamic profiling of cell growth in an antiviral assay showed that FdC caused cytostasis due to an S-phase arrest. These observations demons...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stuyver LJ,McBrayer TR,Whitaker T,Tharnish PM,Ramesh M,Lostia S,Cartee L,Shi J,Hobbs A,Schinazi RF,Watanabe KA,Otto MJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological studies of netilmicin were conducted in 30 cancer patients. After intravenous administration of 50 mg of netilmicin or gentamicin per m(2) over a 1-h period in 10 patients, the mean peak serum concentrations occurred at the end of the infusion and were 7.6 and 7.3 mug/ml, respectively. At 6 h, the mean...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yap BS,Stewart D,Bodey GP

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MK-0991 (L-743,872) is a potent antifungal agent featuring long half-life pharmacokinetics. The pharmacokinetics of MK-0991 administered intravenously to mice, rats, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees is presented. Unique to MK-0991 is its consistent cross-species performance. The range of values for the pharmacokinetic ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hajdu R,Thompson R,Sundelof JG,Pelak BA,Bouffard FA,Dropinski JF,Kropp H

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) strain Mu50 carries two mutations in the vraSR and graRS two-component regulatory systems (TCRSs), namely, vraS(I5N) and graR(N197S) (hereinafter designated graR). The clinical heterogeneously vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (hVISA) strain Mu3 shares ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matsuo M,Hishinuma T,Katayama Y,Cui L,Kapi M,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of eight contact lens solutions on a Mastigina sp., which was associated with the infected eye of a patient, were studied. The solutions which killed the organism promptly were those which are used for gas-permeable and hard contact lenses. Some solutions for soft contact lenses were more effective than ot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Niszl IA,Markus MB,van Deventer JM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberactinomycin antibiotics are essential components in the drug arsenal against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections and are specifically used for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. These antibiotics are also being investigated for their targeting of the catalytic RNAs involved in viral replicat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thomas MG,Chan YA,Ozanick SG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans remains the leading causative agent of invasive fungal infection. Although the importance of filamentation in C. albicans pathogenesis has been extensively investigated, in vivo studies to date have been unable to dissect the role of this developmental process in the establishment of infection versus ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Saville SP,Lazzell AL,Bryant AP,Fretzen A,Monreal A,Solberg EO,Monteagudo C,Lopez-Ribot JL,Milne GT

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinocandins are recommended as the first-line drugs for the treatment of systemic candidiasis. Cas5 is a key transcription factor involved in the response to cell wall damage induced by echinocandins. In this study, through a genetic screen, we identified a second transcription factor, Efg1, that is also crucial for...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xiong K,Su C,Sun Q,Lu Y

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-hepatitis C virus nucleotide prodrug GS-6620 employs a double-prodrug approach, with l-alanine-isopropyl ester and phenol moieties attached to the 5'-phosphate that release the nucleoside monophosphate in hepatocytes and a 3'-isobutyryl ester added to improve permeability and oral bioavailability. Consistent ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Murakami E,Wang T,Babusis D,Lepist EI,Sauer D,Park Y,Vela JE,Shih R,Birkus G,Stefanidis D,Kim CU,Cho A,Ray AS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new recombinant phenotyping method was developed for the analysis of drug resistance mutations in human cytomegalovirus (CMV). CMV strain T2211 was derived from strain AD169 by inserting unique restriction sites and a secreted alkaline phosphatase (SEAP) reporter gene for rapid viral quantitation. Specific viral UL9...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chou S,Van Wechel LC,Lichy HM,Marousek GI

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:To investigate the effects of posaconazole (POS) and amphotericin B (AMB) combination therapy in cryptococcal infection, we established an experimental model of systemic cryptococcosis in CD1 mice by intravenous injection of three distinct clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans. Therapy was started 24 h after th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barchiesi F,Spreghini E,Schimizzi AM,Maracci M,Giannini D,Carle F,Scalise G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococci are the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. Increasingly, they resist antibiotic treatment owing to the development of multiple antibiotic resistance mechanisms in most strains. Therefore, the activity and efficacy of recombinant lysostaphin as a drug against this pathogen have been ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hertlein T,Sturm V,Lorenz U,Sumathy K,Jakob P,Ohlsen K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00