NDM-5 carbapenemase-encoding gene in multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Escherichia coli from Algeria.

abstract：:We report here on a quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) assay for assessing drug efficacy against the intracellular pathogen Cryptosporidium parvum. The qRT-PCR assay detects 18S rRNA transcripts from both parasites, that is, the cycle threshold for 18S rRNA from parasites (C(T)([P18S])) and hos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cai X,Woods KM,Upton SJ,Zhu G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High dosages of ceftriaxone are used to treat central nervous system (CNS) infections. Dosage adaptation according to the glomerular filtration rate is currently not recommended. Ceftriaxone pharmacokinetics (PK) was investigated by a population approach in patients enrolled in a French multicenter prospective cohort ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grégoire M,Dailly E,Le Turnier P,Garot D,Guimard T,Bernard L,Tattevin P,Vandamme YM,Hoff J,Lemaitre F,Verdier MC,Deslandes G,Bellouard R,Sébille V,Chiffoleau A,Boutoille D,Navas D,Asseray N

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The most deadly outbreak of Escherichia coli O104:H4 occurred in Europe in 2011. Here, we evaluated the effects of the retrograde trafficking inhibitor Retro-2(cycl) in a murine model of E. coli O104:H4 infection. Systemic treatment with Retro-2(cycl) significantly reduced body weight loss and improved clinical scores...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Secher T,Shima A,Hinsinger K,Cintrat JC,Johannes L,Barbier J,Gillet D,Oswald E

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We passaged cells expressing TEM-1 and TEM-12 from a single plasmid through either ampicillin or ceftazidime. We found that the combined effects of recombination and selection removed the bla(TEM-1) allele from the bacterial population when it was passaged through ceftazidime or the bla(TEM-12) allele when cultures we...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mroczkowska JE,Barlow M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of piperaquine (PQ) into breast milk was examined in 27 Papua New Guinean women given a 3-day course of dihydroartemisinin-PQ or sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine-PQ during the second/third trimester. Breast milk was sampled on days 1, 2, 3 to 5, 7 to 11, and 14 to 17 postdelivery, a median of 70 days postdose (range...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moore BR,Salman S,Benjamin J,Page-Sharp M,Yadi G,Batty KT,Siba PM,Mueller I,Davis TM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifalazil, also known as KRM-1648 or benzoxazinorifamycin, is a new semisynthetic rifamycin with a long half-life of approximately 60 h. Rifalazil has potent bactericidal activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro and in animal models of tuberculosis (TB). Prior studies in healthy volunteers showed that once...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dietze R,Teixeira L,Rocha LM,Palaci M,Johnson JL,Wells C,Rose L,Eisenach K,Ellner JJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult diabetic patients admitted to our Diabetes Center from September 1996 to January 1998 for severe, limb-threatening foot infection were consecutively enrolled in a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical study aimed at assessing the safety and efficacy of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating fact...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Lalla F,Pellizzer G,Strazzabosco M,Martini Z,Du Jardin G,Lora L,Fabris P,Benedetti P,Erle G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of tet(S) genetic contexts of 13 enterococci from human, animal, and environmental samples from different geographical areas is reported. The tet(S) gene was linked to either CTn6000 variants of chromosomal location or composite platforms flanked by IS1216 located on plasmids (∼40 to 115 kb). The compara...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Novais C,Freitas AR,Silveira E,Baquero F,Peixe L,Roberts AP,Coque TM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-L-2',3'-Dideoxy-5-fluorocytidine (beta-L-FddC), a novel cytidine analog with an unnatural beta-L sugar configuration, has been demonstrated by our group and others to exhibit highly selective in vitro activity against human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 and hepatitis B virus. This encouraging in vitro anti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martin LT,Cretton-Scott E,Schinazi RF,Zhou XJ,McClure HM,Mathe C,Gosselin G,Imbach JL,Sommadossi JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Decynoyl-N-acetylcystamine is known to inhibit the in vitro growth of Escherichia coli but not of yeasts or mammalian cells. Neither the free acid nor the 2 positional isomer is active (L. R. Kass, J. Biol. Chem. 243:3223-3228, 1968). Other studies have shown that 2-hexadecynoic acid is fungitoxic whereas most of th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Konthikamee W,Gilbertson JR,Langkamp H,Gershon H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mefloquine is widely used in combination with artemisinin derivatives for the treatment of falciparum malaria. Mefloquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has been related to increased copy numbers of multidrug-resistant gene 1 (pfmdr1). We studied the ex vivo dynamics of pfmdr1 gene amplification in culture-adapte...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Preechapornkul P,Imwong M,Chotivanich K,Pongtavornpinyo W,Dondorp AM,Day NP,White NJ,Pukrittayakamee S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence and severity of infection by Clostridium difficile have stimulated attempts to develop new antimicrobial therapies. We report here the relative abilities of two antibiotics (metronidazole and vancomycin) in current use for treating C. difficile infection and of a third antimicrobial, surotomyc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bouillaut L,McBride S,Sorg JA,Schmidt DJ,Suarez JM,Tzipori S,Mascio C,Chesnel L,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cattle trypanocide, isometamidium, was readily taken up by inactivated Trypanosoma brucei, while its uptake by living parasites was reduced or inhibited by plasma. In both respects isometamidium differs from diminazene. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Girgis-Takla P,James DM

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to drugs such as chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is a major problem in malaria control. Artemisinin (ART) derivatives, particularly in combination with other drugs, are thus increasingly used to treat malaria, reducing the probability that parasites resistant to the compon...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Afonso A,Hunt P,Cheesman S,Alves AC,Cunha CV,do Rosário V,Cravo P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transfer of DNA between Enterococcus faecium strains has been characterized both by the movement of well-defined genetic elements and by the large-scale transfer of genomic DNA fragments. In this work, we report on the whole-genome analysis of transconjugants resulting from mating events between the vancomycin-res...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： García-Solache M,Lebreton F,McLaughlin RE,Whiteaker JD,Gilmore MS,Rice LB

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are resistant to most antibiotics, making CRE infections extremely difficult to treat with available agents. Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPC-2 and KPC-3) are predominant carbapenemases in CRE in the United States. Nacubactam is a bridged diazabicyclooctane (DBO) ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barnes MD,Taracila MA,Good CE,Bajaksouzian S,Rojas LJ,van Duin D,Kreiswirth BN,Jacobs MR,Haldimann A,Papp-Wallace KM,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 4,226 Spanish clinical isolates of Candida spp. were analyzed to assess resistance to voriconazole according to breakpoints established by the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (where susceptibility [S] to voriconazole corresponds to a MIC of ≤ 0.12 mg/liter). Resistance was uncomm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cuenca-Estrella M,Gomez-Lopez A,Cuesta I,Zaragoza O,Mellado E,Rodriguez-Tudela JL,Antifungal Subcommittee of European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of pneumococci resistant to penicillin and other agents prompted us to evaluate intravenous vancomycin for the therapy of pneumococcal meningitis, which has an overall mortality of 30%. Eleven consecutive adult patients with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-culture-proven pneumococcal meningitis and positive in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Viladrich PF,Gudiol F,Liñares J,Pallarés R,Sabaté I,Rufí G,Ariza J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a prospective, randomized open comparison of the broad-spectrum cephalosporins cefepime and ceftazidime in treatment of hospitalized subjects with skin or wound infections and complicated nosocomial urinary tract infections. Cefepime treatment (dosage, 2.0 g intravenously twice daily for 4 to 28 days) was...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gentry LO,Rodriguez-Gomez G

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to aminoglycosides is known to occur during chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients in response to nonlethal concentrations of aminoglycosides. Not only is it difficult to achieve high levels of drug throughout the dehydrated mucus in the lung, but also ste...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kindrachuk KN,Fernández L,Bains M,Hancock RE

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:BMY-28864, a water-soluble pradimicin derivative, had potent in vitro activity against a wide variety of fungi, including those associated with deep-seated mycosis; it inhibited the growth of standard strains and clinical isolates at concentrations of 12.5 micrograms/ml or less. At the MIC or higher concentrations, BM...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kakushima M,Masuyoshi S,Hirano M,Shinoda M,Ohta A,Kamei H,Oki T

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of Staphylococcus aureus strain 8325-4 as a recipient for the transduction of methicillin resistance requires the presence of a penicillinase plasmid but was found to be independent of the lysogenic state of the recipient. Effectiveness is conferred by the plasmid in either the autonomous or integrat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stewart GC,Rosenblum ED

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of various test meals and fluid volumes on the relative bioavailability of commercial formulations of doxycycline hyclate and tetracycline hydrochloride was studied in healthy human volunteers. Serum levels of tetracycline were uniformly reduced by approximately 50% by all test meals, whereas serum level...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Welling PG,Koch PA,Lau CC,Craig WA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of antibiotic treatment on establishment of intestinal colonization by Candida glabrata in adult mice. Subcutaneous ceftriaxone, piperacillin-tazobactam, clindamycin, and metronidazole promoted increased density of stool colonization, whereas cefepime, levofloxacin, and aztreonam did not. These ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pultz NJ,Stiefel U,Ghannoum M,Helfand MS,Donskey CJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 cells grown in 1 to 5 mM sodium salicylate (SAL) or acetylsalicylate show increased phenotypic resistance to various antibiotics (J. L. Rosner, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:8771-8774, 1985), including cephalosporins (this study). To determine whether these effects are caused by a decreased uptak...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Foulds J,Murray DM,Chai T,Rosner JL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefprozil were determined with 12 volunteers (8 received cefprozil and 4 received a placebo) after oral administration of 500 mg every 12 h over an 8-day period in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design. Concentrations in serum and urine were measured by high-pressure liquid chro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lode H,Müller C,Borner K,Nord CE,Koeppe P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragments (414 bp) of the gene-encoding ribosomal protein L16 from Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis that were resistant and susceptible to the oligosaccharide antibiotics avilamycin and evernimicin (SCH 27899) were sequenced and compared. The susceptible E. faecalis and E. faecium isolates had sequences ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aarestrup FM,Jensen LB

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarticular mucormycosis cases are quite rare and challenging infections that are mostly due to direct inoculation during traumatic injury among immunocompetent patients. Classic management includes a combination of aggressive surgical debridement, which may lead to amputation, and long-term systemic liposomal amph...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parize P,Mamez AC,Garcia-Hermoso D,Dumaine V,Poirée S,Kauffmann-Lacroix C,Jullien V,Lortholary O,Lanternier F

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV), like hepatitis C virus (HCV), requires phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase IIIα (PI4KA) for genome replication. Here, we demonstrate that tyrphostin AG1478, a known epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, also inhibits PI4KA activity, both in vitro and in cells. AG1478 impaired ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dorobantu CM,Harak C,Klein R,van der Linden L,Strating JR,van der Schaar HM,Lohmann V,van Kuppeveld FJ

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00