Characterization of vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis.

abstract：:NorC, a new efflux pump, like NorB, contributes to quinolone resistance that includes resistance to moxifloxacin and sparfloxacin in Staphylococcus aureus. norC expression, like that of norB and tet38, is negatively regulated by MgrA, and overexpression of both norC and norB contributes to the quinolone resistance phe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Truong-Bolduc QC,Strahilevitz J,Hooper DC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated DNA sequencing was used to analyze the oxyR-ahpC region in 229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates recently recovered from diseased humans and animals. The entire 1,221-bp region was studied in 118 isolates, and 111 other isolates were sequenced for oxyR, ahpC, or the 105-bp oxyR-ahpC intergenic regi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sreevatsan S,Pan X,Zhang Y,Deretic V,Musser JM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small-colony-variant (SCV) phenotype of Staphylococcus aureus has been associated with difficult-to-treat infections, reduced antimicrobial susceptibility, and intracellular persistence. This study represents a detailed intra- and extracellular investigation of a clinical wild-type (WT) S. aureus strain and its co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sandberg A,Lemaire S,Van Bambeke F,Tulkens PM,Hughes D,von Eiff C,Frimodt-Møller N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doripenem, a parenteral carbapenem, exhibited high affinity for penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) and PBP3 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and PBP2 in Escherichia coli, the primary PBPs whose inhibition leads to cell death. This PBP affinity profile correlates with the broad-spectrum gram-negative activity observed with d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Davies TA,Shang W,Bush K,Flamm RK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spider venoms are vast natural pharmacopoeias selected by evolution. The venom of the ant spider Lachesana tarabaevi contains a wide variety of antimicrobial peptides. We tested six of them (latarcins 1, 2a, 3a, 4b, 5, and cytoinsectotoxin 1a) for their ability to suppress Chlamydia trachomatis infection. HEK293 cells...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lazarev VN,Polina NF,Shkarupeta MM,Kostrjukova ES,Vassilevski AA,Kozlov SA,Grishin EV,Govorun VM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopeptidic antibiotic daptomycin is reported to reduce experimental tobramycin nephrotoxicity (D. Beauchamp, M. Pellerin, P. Gourde, M. Pettigrew and M. G. Bergeron, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 34:139-147, 1990; C. A. Wood, H. C. Finkbeiner, S. J. Kohlhepp, P. W. Kohnen, and D. C. Gilbert, Antimicrob. Agents C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Couture M,Simard M,Gourde P,Lessard C,Gurnani K,Lin L,Carrier D,Bergeron MG,Beauchamp D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primaquine is currently the only drug available for radical cure of Plasmodium vivax and P. ovale liver infection stages, but limited safety data exist for children <10 years of age. Detailed daily assessments of side effects in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-normal children treated with 14 days of primaquin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Betuela I,Bassat Q,Kiniboro B,Robinson LJ,Rosanas-Urgell A,Stanisic D,Siba PM,Alonso PL,Mueller I

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of membrane permeability is a key step in regulating the intracellular concentration of antibiotics. Efflux pumps confer innate resistance to a wide range of toxic compounds such as antibiotics, dyes, detergents, and disinfectants in members of the Enterobacteriaceae. The AcrAB-TolC efflux pump is involved in ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pérez A,Poza M,Aranda J,Latasa C,Medrano FJ,Tomás M,Romero A,Lasa I,Bou G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritonitis is a major complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Relapsing peritonitis after the cessation of antimicrobial therapy is frequently reported and often involves Staphylococcus epidermidis. To investigate the potential role of catheter-associated biofilm in the pathogenesis of relapsing pe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Evans RC,Holmes CJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized, double-blind trial involving patients with uncomplicated influenza A H3N2 subtype virus infection, rimantadine treatment (200 mg/day for 5 days) was associated with significant reductions in nasal secretion viral titers (days 2 through 4), maximal temperature (days 2 and 3), time until defervescence (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hayden FG,Monto AS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group 5043 examined pharmacokinetic (PK) interactions between amprenavir (APV) and efavirenz (EFV) both by themselves and when nelfinavir (NFV), indinavir (IDV), ritonavir (RTV), or saquinavir (SQV) is added. A PK study was conducted after the administration of single doses of APV (day 0). S...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morse GD,Rosenkranz S,Para MF,Segal Y,Difrancesco R,Adams E,Brizz B,Yarasheski KE,Reichman RC

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:The in vitro activities of a new quinolone, WIN 57273, and the combination of piperacillin and tazobactam, a beta-lactamase inhibitor, were compared with those of cefoxitin, ceftizoxime, chloramphenicol, clindamycin, imipenem, metronidazole, and piperacillin for 123 clinical anaerobic isolates. Ceftizoxime and cefoxit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Venezia RA,Yocum DM,Robbiano EM,Echols RM

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional therapy for human cytomegalovirus (CMV) relies on inhibition of the viral DNA polymerase. Ganciclovir (GCV) is the first-line therapy, but when GCV-resistant strains emerge, alternative therapies are extremely limited and are associated with significant toxicities. Combination of anti-CMV agents that act ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cai H,Kapoor A,He R,Venkatadri R,Forman M,Posner GH,Arav-Boger R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructural alterations induced in vitro by ICI 195,739, a recently developed bis-triazole derivative with potent antiproliferative effects on Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi, are reported. On epimastigotes, the triazole at its minimum growth-inhibitory concentration (0.1 microM) produced immediately (withi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lazardi K,Urbina JA,de Souza W

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that ginsenosides Rg1 and Re enhanced the immune response in C3H/HeB mice but not in C3H/HeJ mice carrying a mutation in the Tlr4 gene. The results of the present study showed that both Rg1 and Re inhibited mRNA expression and production of proinflammatory mediators that included tumor necro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Su F,Xue Y,Wang Y,Zhang L,Chen W,Hu S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation (PDI) was shown to be a promising treatment modality for microbial infections. This study explores the effect of chitosan, a polycationic biopolymer, in increasing the PDI efficacy against Gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Strep...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsai T,Chien HF,Wang TH,Huang CT,Ker YB,Chen CT

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrophobicity and charge of the cell surface of M protein-positive (M+) and the less virulent M protein-negative (M-) strains of type 12 Streptococcus pyogenes have been studied, respectively, by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and free zone electrophoresis. The M+ strain had a more hydrophobic and a more ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tylewska S,Hjertén S,Wadström T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 40 million women of reproductive age are infected with one of three species of the waterborne parasite Schistosoma spp. Treatment with praziquantel (PZQ) via mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns is the mainstay of schistosomiasis control for populations living in areas of endemicity. The World Health ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bustinduy AL,Kolamunnage-Dona R,Mirochnick MH,Capparelli EV,Tallo V,Acosta LP,Olveda RM,Friedman JF,Hope WW

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbation of hydroxyl radical accumulation by subinhibitory concentrations of 2,2'-bipyridyl plus thiourea protects Escherichia coli from being killed by 3 lethal antimicrobial classes. Here, we show that 2,2'-bipyridyl plus thiourea delays and/or reduces antimicrobial killing of Staphylococcus aureus by daptomycin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liu Y,Liu X,Qu Y,Wang X,Li L,Zhao X

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of three bacterial species and Candida albicans was studied on SPI-ARGENT II. The immediate recovery from silver-impregnated polymer and control polymer (1 cm2) was approximately 10(6) to 10(7) microorganisms. After incubation (37 degreesC) and neutralization of silver with horse serum (5%), surviving org...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kampf G,Dietze B,Grosse-Siestrup C,Wendt C,Martiny H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E5531, a novel synthetic lipid A analogue, antagonizes the toxic effects of lipopolysaccharide, making it a potential intravenously administered therapeutic agent for the treatment of sepsis. This report describes the distribution of E5531 in human blood and its activity when it is associated with different lipoprotei...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rose JR,Mullarkey MA,Christ WJ,Hawkins LD,Lynn M,Kishi Y,Wasan KM,Peteherych K,Rossignol DP

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of cefazolin was assessed by continuous turbidimetric monitoring of cultures of gram-negative bacilli and the results were compared with those previously obtained with other beta-lactam agents using the same strains and methods. Cefazolin was found to induce rapid lysis of ampicillin-susceptible ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Greenwood D,Chan-Teoh CH,O'Grady F

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difloxacin, A-56620, cefazolin, cefotaxime, ceftizoxime, cephapirin, SK&F 88070, and spectinomycin were used to compare the in vitro susceptibilities of Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellular isolates from patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), patients without AIDS, and diseased animals. Against the i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Byrne SK,Geddes GL,Isaac-Renton JL,Black WA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified GRL-1388 and -1398, potent nonpeptidic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease inhibitors (PIs) containing a bicyclic P2 functional moiety, tetrahydropyrano-tetrahydrofuran (Tp-THF). GRL-1388 was as potent as darunavir (DRV) against various drug-resistant HIV-1 laboratory strains with 50% ef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ide K,Aoki M,Amano M,Koh Y,Yedidi RS,Das D,Leschenko S,Chapsal B,Ghosh AK,Mitsuya H

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for an accurate and rapid method of testing ampicillin susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae, especially strains isolated from patients with meningitis and septicemia, is indisputable. Various methods have been employed for this purpose. Each has advantages and disadvantages. This report describes a modifi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Park CH,Lopez JS,Cook CB

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential for resistance development in Streptococcus pneumoniae secondary to exposure to gatifloxacin, gemifloxacin, levofloxacin, and moxifloxacin at various levels was examined at high inoculum (10(8.5) to 10(9) log10 CFU/ml) over 96 h in an in vitro pharmacodynamic (PD) model using two fluoroquinolone-suscepti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： LaPlante KL,Rybak MJ,Tsuji B,Lodise TP,Kaatz GW

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium isolated in Bombay from fecal samples of 145 patients suffering from gastroenteritis (group 1) and from the cerebrospinal fluid, feces, or blood of 42 patients with systemic salmonellosis (group 2) were examined for the antimicrobial resistance and incompatibility groups of their R plasmids. Mul...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rangnekar VM,Banker DD,Jhala HI

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacologic parameters and toxicity of netilmicin (6 mg/kg/day) given once daily (qd) or thrice daily (tid) for the treatment of urinary tract infections were studied in a randomized prospective study of 60 cancer patients. The overall efficacy was 96%. Nephrotoxicity, assessed by the measure of urinary excretio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van der Auwera P,Meunier F,Ibrahim S,Kaufman L,Derde MP,Tulkens PM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:aac(6')-Ib-cr is a plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance gene embedded within a gene cassette, most often within an integron. It confers resistance to quinolones and aminoglycosides. We investigated the role of a 101-bp fragment frequently present upstream of the aac(6')-Ib-cr gene cassette and found that it contribut...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Raherison S,Jove T,Gaschet M,Pinault E,Tabesse A,Torres C,Ploy MC

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00