High proportion of heteroresistance in gyrA and gyrB in fluoroquinolone-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates.

abstract：:We examined the influences of different pH levels and three different buffers on flucytosine activity against 12 isolates of Candida albicans in two synthetic media, yeast nitrogen base (YNB) and synthetic amino acid medium-fungal (SAAMF), using broth dilution techniques and measuring the endpoints of visual MICs and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Calhoun DL,Galgiani JN

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifapentine is highly protein bound in blood, but the free, unbound drug is the microbiologically active fraction. In this exploratory study, we characterized the free plasma fraction of rifapentine in 41 patients with tuberculosis. We found a lower total rifapentine concentration but significantly higher free rifapen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Egelund EF,Weiner M,Singh RP,Prihoda TJ,Gelfond JA,Derendorf H,Mac Kenzie WR,Peloquin CA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of teicoplanin and vancomycin against 362 coagulase-negative staphylococci were determined by an agar dilution method. At the 4- and 32-micrograms/ml breakpoint levels of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 23.2% of the strains were intermediate and 1.7% were resistant to teicoplan...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein FW,Coutrot A,Sieffer A,Acar JF

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of acid, oxgall, and H(2)O(2) on susceptibilities to antibiotics and nisin were examined for 13 strains of bifidobacteria. Susceptibilities to ampicillin, cloxacillin, penicillin, vancomycin, kanamycin, neomycin, paramomycin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, tetracycline, and nisin A were assay...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kheadr E,Dabour N,Le Lay C,Lacroix C,Fliss I

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is a life-threatening infection in lung transplant recipients; however, no studies of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD) of echinocandins in transplanted lungs have been reported. We conducted a single-dose prospective study of the intrapulmonary and plasma PKPD of 150 mg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walsh TJ,Goutelle S,Jelliffe RW,Golden JA,Little EA,DeVoe C,Mickiene D,Hayes M,Conte JE Jr

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen derivatives of the Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 strain in which putative drug efflux pumps were genetically inactivated were constructed and characterized. The results indicate that two linked genes encoding the ABC-type transporters SP2073 and SP2075 function together to confer intrinsic resistance to a se...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robertson GT,Doyle TB,Lynch AS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minocycline and valproic acid are potential adjuvant therapies for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated cognitive impairment. The purpose of this study was to determine whether minocycline alone or in combination with valproic acid affected atazanavir plasma concentrations. Twelve adult HIV-i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： DiCenzo R,Peterson DR,Cruttenden K,Mariuz P,Rezk NL,Hochreiter J,Gelbard H,Schifitto G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coresistance to human reserve antibiotics can be selected by antibiotics used in veterinary medicine. A Clostridium perfringens strain isolated from pig manure was resistant to the reserve drug linezolid and, simultaneously, resistant against florfenicol and erythromycin. We detected a new mutation in a highly conserv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hölzel CS,Harms KS,Schwaiger K,Bauer J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An oligonucleoside methylphosphonate (ONMP) complementary to the splice acceptor site of immediate-early (IE) pre-mRNAs 4 and 5 (IE4,5SA) inhibits herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) growth in vitro and in infected animals. The antiviral effect appears to be due to inhibition of IE pre-mRNA 4 and 5 splicing and/or IE4...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kulka M,Smith CC,Levis J,Fishelevich R,Hunter JC,Cushman CD,Miller PS,Ts'o PO,Aurelian L

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete and the causative agent of Lyme disease, has been reported to be susceptible to a variety of antimicrobial agents. In this investigation, the action of vancomycin, a glycopeptide antibiotic not previously known to have activity against spirochetes, against borrelias was examined. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dever LL,Jorgensen JH,Barbour AG

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TP-434 is a novel, broad-spectrum fluorocycline antibiotic with activity against bacteria expressing major antibiotic resistance mechanisms, including tetracycline-specific efflux and ribosomal protection. The mechanism of action of TP-434 was assessed using both cell-based and in vitro assays. In Escherichia coli cel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grossman TH,Starosta AL,Fyfe C,O'Brien W,Rothstein DM,Mikolajka A,Wilson DN,Sutcliffe JA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of four antibiotics and their combinations were determined for 38 strains of enterococci by a microtitration tube dilution technique. The drugs were ampicillin, vancomycin, gentamicin, and streptomycin; the combinations were ampicillin-gentamicin, ampicillin-streptomy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Harwick HJ,Kalmanson GM,Guze LB

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple technique with antibiotic-impregnated disks has been developed to demonstrate the antibiotic synergism of penicillins and aminoglycosides against enterococci. The two antibiotic disks are placed on inoculated plates so that the distance between their centers is less than the sum of the two radii of their prev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee WS,Komarmy L

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the isolation of 31 Acinetobacter baumannii strains producing OXA-253 in a single large Brazilian city. These strains belonged to five different sequence types (STs), including 4 STs not previously associated with blaOXA-253 In all strains, the blaOXA-253 gene was located in a plasmid within a genetic ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Sá Cavalcanti FL,Mendes-Marques CL,Vasconcelos CR,de Lima Campos T,Rezende AM,Xavier DE,Leal NC,de-Melo-Neto OP,de Morais MM,Leal-Balbino TC

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida auris is an emerging pathogen that can cause virulent central-line-associated bloodstream infections. Catheter salvage through the eradication of biofilms is a desirable therapeutic option. We compared taurolidine and minocycline-EDTA-ethanol (MEE) catheter lock solutions in vitro for the eradication of biofil...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Reitzel RA,Rosenblatt J,Gerges BZ,Vargas-Cruz N,Raad II

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of penicillin G to a stable L-form from Staphylococcus aureus followed saturation-type kinetics with saturation achieved at 0.75 nmol/ml, the same as with its parent strain. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Suginaka H

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mecillinam is an amidino penicillinate derivative with a broad spectrum of activity against many gram-negative bacilli. Moreover, marked in vitro synergy against these organisms occurs when mecillinam is combined with other beta-lactam antibiotics. The purpose of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetic disposi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gambertoglio JG,Barriere SL,Lin ET,Conte JE Jr

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty percent (21 of 26) of macrolide-resistant Peptostreptococcus strains studied harbored the ermTR gene. This methyltransferase gene is also the most frequently found gene among macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes strains. Transfer of the ermTR gene from Peptostreptococcus magnus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Reig M,Galan J,Baquero F,Perez-Diaz JC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we completely sequenced four mcr-1-haboring plasmids, isolated from two extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and two carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates. The mcr-1-harboring plasmids from an E. coli sequence type 2448 (ST2448) isolate and two K. pneumoniae ST...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li A,Yang Y,Miao M,Chavda KD,Mediavilla JR,Xie X,Feng P,Tang YW,Kreiswirth BN,Chen L,Du H

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Characterization of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antileishmanial drugs in preclinical models is important for drug development and use. Here we investigated the pharmacodynamics and drug di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Voak AA,Harris A,Qaiser Z,Croft SL,Seifert K

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and specific high-pressure liquid chromatographic method is described for the determination of the antibacterial drug flumequine and a major metabolite, 7-hydroxyflumequine, in human plasma and urine. The assay was linear over a concentration range of 1 to 120 micrograms/ml for both compounds. This method ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Harrison LI,Schuppan D,Rohlfing SR,Hansen AR,Hansen CS,Funk ML,Collins SH,Ober RE

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of OPC-17116 by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes was studied by comparison with three other new quinolones, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, and DR-3354. The intracellular/extracellular concentration ratio was the highest for OPC-17116, being 66.2, followed by 9.8 for levofloxacin, 7.6 for ofloxacin, and 5....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Taira K,Koga H,Kohno S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R plasmids identified in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated in our laboratories were classified by their incompatibility characters by using intraspecies conjugation in P. aeruginosa. The fertility factor, FP2, was compatible with R plasmids belonging to all groups, and was classified in a new group. From these d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sagai H,Hasuda K,Iyobe S,Bryan LE,Holloway BW,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the clinical correlates of the reference antifungal susceptibility test results in hematogenous and deep-seated Candida infection are still controversial, we evaluated the clinical correlates of this test in deep-seated Candida infections in non-AIDS patients. Thirty-two non-AIDS patients with hematogenous or...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee SC,Fung CP,Huang JS,Tsai CJ,Chen KS,Chen HY,Lee N,See LC,Shieh WB

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of pNL194, a VIM-1-encoding plasmid, is described in this study. pNL194 (79,307 bp) comprised an IncN-characteristic segment (38,940 bp) and a mosaic structure (40,367 bp) including bla(VIM-1), aacA7, aadA1, aadA2, dfrA1, dfrA12, aphA1, strA, strB, and sul1. Tn1000 or Tn5501 insertion within fi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Miriagou V,Papagiannitsis CC,Kotsakis SD,Loli A,Tzelepi E,Legakis NJ,Tzouvelekis LS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV; genus Alphavirus) is the causative agent of chikungunya fever. CHIKV replication can be inhibited by some broad-spectrum antiviral compounds; in contrast, there is very little information about compounds specifically inhibiting the enzymatic activities of CHIKV replication proteins. These pro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Das PK,Puusepp L,Varghese FS,Utt A,Ahola T,Kananovich DG,Lopp M,Merits A,Karelson M

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans, an opportunistic fungus, and Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial pathogen, are two clinically relevant biofilm-forming microbes responsible for a majority of catheter-related infections, with such infections often resulting in catheter loss and removal. Not only do these pathogens cause a substantial ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Peters BM,Ward RM,Rane HS,Lee SA,Noverr MC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that cells of Vibrio parahaemolyticus possess an energy-dependent efflux system for norfloxacin. We cloned a gene for a putative norfloxacin efflux protein from the chromosomal DNA of V. parahaemolyticus by using an Escherichia coli mutant lacking the major multidrug efflux system AcrAB as the host and sequen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morita Y,Kodama K,Shiota S,Mine T,Kataoka A,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the isolation of a laboratory-derived Staphylococcus aureus mutant, 523k, that has constitutive low-level resistance to vancomycin (MIC = 5 micrograms/ml) and teicoplanin (MIC = 5 micrograms/ml) and elaborates a ca. 39-kDa cytoplasmic protein that was not detected in the parent strain 523 (MIC =...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Milewski WM,Boyle-Vavra S,Moreira B,Ebert CC,Daum RS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus gallinarum N04-0414 (MIC for vancomycin, 256 microg/ml) harbored a vanD-type vancomycin resistance operon as well as the intrinsic vanC1 operon. The D-Ala:D-Ala ligase 2 gene (ddl2) was not present in the strain, though it is found downstream of the vanS gene from the vanC operon in E. gallinarum ATCC 495...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyd DA,Miller MA,Mulvey MR

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00