Chimeric Cyanovirin-MPER recombinantly engineered proteins cause cell-free virolysis of HIV-1.

abstract：:The macrolide resistance gene erm(T) was identified for the first time in a porcine Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae isolate from swine in China. The novel 3,749-bp small plasmid pER29, which carries erm(T), had a G+C content of 31% and four distinct open reading frames. The presence of pER29 increased by at least 128-fol...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xu CW,Zhang AY,Yang CM,Pan Y,Guan ZB,Lei CW,Peng LY,Li QZ,Wang HN

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inter- and intralaboratory reproducibility of susceptibility testing requires stable control strains. The Food and Drug Administration diffusion procedure recommends the Seattle strains of Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923) and Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) for this purpose. It was of interest to determine the present...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coyle MB,Lampe MF,Aitken CL,Feigl P,Sherris JC

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TEM-24 remains one of the most widespread TEM-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) among Enterobacteriaceae. To analyze the reasons influencing its spread and persistence, a multilevel population genetics study was carried out on 28 representative TEM-24 producers from Belgium, France, Portugal, and Spain (1...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Novais A,Baquero F,Machado E,Cantón R,Peixe L,Coque TM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomicins A and B, two new heptadecaglycoside antibiotics, were isolated from the fermentation broth of the rare actinomycete Saccharothrix espanaensis. They represent a novel class of bactericidal antibiotics that are active both in vitro and in vivo against bacteria and yeast (MICs: Staphylococcus aureus, <0.12...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singh MP,Petersen PJ,Weiss WJ,Kong F,Greenstein M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ramoplanin is an actinomycetes-derived antibiotic with broad-spectrum activity against Gram-positive bacteria that has been evaluated in clinical trials for the treatment of gastrointestinal vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and Clostridium difficile infections. Recent studies have proposed that ramoplanin binds ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cheng M,Huang JX,Ramu S,Butler MS,Cooper MA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus (NoV) is the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide, causing over 200,000 deaths a year. NoV is nonenveloped, with a single-stranded RNA genome, and is primarily transmitted person to person. The viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is critical for the production of genomic and subgenomic RNA ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eltahla AA,Lim KL,Eden JS,Kelly AG,Mackenzie JM,White PA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen clinical isolates of group C streptococci were tested for penicillin tolerance. Sixteen of the strains showed penicillin tolerance with a 32-fold or greater difference between the minimal inhibitory concentration and the minimal bactericidal concentration. Synergism was demonstrated with a combination of pen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Portnoy D,Prentis J,Richards GK

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of ACH-702 and other antimicrobials against 30 Nocardia brasiliensis isolates were tested. The MIC(50) (MIC for 50% of the strains tested) and MIC(90) values of ACH-702 were 0.125 and 0.5 microg/ml. The same values for econazole were 2 and 4 microg/ml. The MIC(50) and MIC(90) values of imipenem...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vera-Cabrera L,Campos-Rivera MP,Escalante-Fuentes WG,Pucci MJ,Ocampo-Candiani J,Welsh O

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel in vitro tests, assessing the inhibition of schizont maturation, were conducted with 31 fresh isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Thailand, using artemisinin, doxycycline, and combinations of both. The activities of artemisinin and doxycycline are obviously not correlated. Both compounds showed consistent ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sponer U,Prajakwong S,Wiedermann G,Kollaritsch H,Wernsdorfer G,Wernsdorfer WH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ampD gene product regulates the expression of AmpC beta-lactamase in gram-negative bacteria and is proposed to be involved in peptidoglycan metabolism. In this study, we sequenced the ampD wild type and three mutant genes of Enterobacter cloacae and Citrobacter freundii. They exhibited a high degree of homology wi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kopp U,Wiedemann B,Lindquist S,Normark S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CMY-30, a Val211Gly mutant of CMY-2 cephalosporinase, was derived by mutagenesis. The hydrolytic efficiency of CMY-30 against expanded-spectrum cephalosporins was higher than that of CMY-2 due to increased k(cat) values. Findings indicate a role of the Omega loop residue 211 in determining the substrate specificities ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kotsakis SD,Papagiannitsis CC,Tzelepi E,Tzouvelekis LS,Miriagou V

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ledipasvir (LDV; GS-5885), a component of Harvoni (a fixed-dose combination of LDV with sofosbuvir [SOF]), is approved to treat chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Here, we report key preclinical antiviral properties of LDV, including in vitro potency, in vitro resistance profile, and activity in combination wi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cheng G,Tian Y,Doehle B,Peng B,Corsa A,Lee YJ,Gong R,Yu M,Han B,Xu S,Dvory-Sobol H,Perron M,Xu Y,Mo H,Pagratis N,Link JO,Delaney W

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomycin, the first antibiotic used in tuberculosis control programs, perturbs protein synthesis at the ribosome level. It is shown here that streptomycin resistance in some clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is associated either with missense mutations in the rpsL gene, which encodes ribosomal protei...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Honoré N,Cole ST

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the transport functions of individual Candida albicans plasma membrane drug efflux pumps is hampered by the multitude of endogenous transporters. We have stably expressed C. albicans Cdr1p, the major pump implicated in multiple-drug-resistance phenotypes, from the genomic PDR5 locus in a Saccharomyces cere...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nakamura K,Niimi M,Niimi K,Holmes AR,Yates JE,Decottignies A,Monk BC,Goffeau A,Cannon RD

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinazoline-2,4-diones, such as PD 0305970, are new DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV (topo IV) inhibitors with potent activity against gram-positive pathogens, including quinolone-resistant isolates. The mechanistic basis of dione activity vis-à-vis quinolones is not understood. We present evidence for Streptococcus pn...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pan XS,Gould KA,Fisher LM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of these studies was to evaluate the exposures of meropenem and vaborbactam that would produce antibacterial activity and prevent resistance development in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae strains when tested at an inoculum of 108 CFU/ml. Thirtee...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sabet M,Tarazi Z,Rubio-Aparicio D,Nolan TG,Parkinson J,Lomovskaya O,Dudley MN,Griffith DC

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of four aminoglycoside antibiotics by human serum was investigated under controlled conditions of physiological pH and temperature, by means of an ultrafiltration technique. No serum binding was demonstrable for gentamicin, tobramycin, or kanamycin, whereas streptomycin was 35% bound. Previous conflicting ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gordon RC,Regamey C,Kirby WM

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of sparfloxacin, azithromycin, temafloxacin, and rifapentine against two virulent strains of the Mycobacterium avium complex isolated from patients with AIDS were evaluated in a model of intracellular infection and were compared with that of clarithromycin. Human monocyte-derived macrophages were infect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perronne C,Gikas A,Truffot-Pernot C,Grosset J,Vilde JL,Pocidalo JJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of 6,156 sequences from 4,183 persons, the top 30 patterns of protease inhibitor, nucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitor, and nonnucleoside RT inhibitor mutations accounted for 55, 46, and 66%, respectively, of sequences with drug resistance mutations. Characterization of the phenotypic and clinic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rhee SY,Liu T,Ravela J,Gonzales MJ,Shafer RW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis strain 168 produces the extremely stable and broad-spectrum lantibiotic sublancin 168. Known sublancin 168-susceptible organisms include important pathogens, such as Staphylococcus aureus. Nevertheless, since its discovery, the mode of action of sublancin 168 has remained elusive. The present studies...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kouwen TR,Trip EN,Denham EL,Sibbald MJ,Dubois JY,van Dijl JM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-beta-D-2-Aminopurine dioxolane (APD) and (-)-beta-D-2-amino-6-chloropurine dioxolane (ACPD) are recently synthesized dioxolanylpurine nucleoside derivatives being developed as potential prodrugs for the antiviral nucleoside analog (-)-beta-D-dioxolane guanine (DXG). In vitro, APD and ACPD are converted to DXG by x...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen H,Boudinot FD,Chu CK,Mcclure HM,Schinazi RF

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ex vivo assay systems provide a powerful approach to studying human malaria parasite biology and to testing antimalarials. For rodent malaria parasites, short-term in vitro culture and ex vivo antimalarial susceptibility assays are relatively cumbersome, relying on in vivo passage for synchronization, since ring-stage...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chang ZW,Malleret B,Russell B,Rénia L,Claser C

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporadic isolates of carbapenem-resistant KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae were isolated in Tel Aviv Medical Center during 2005 and 2006, parallel to the emergence of the KPC-3-producing K. pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST 258). We aimed to study the molecular epidemiology of these isolates and to characterize th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Leavitt A,Carmeli Y,Chmelnitsky I,Goren MG,Ofek I,Navon-Venezia S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal diseases are generally difficult to treat and often fatal. The therapeutic agents available to treat fungi are limited, and there is a critical need for new agents to combat these deadly infections. Antifungal compound development has been hindered by the challenge of creating agents that are highly ac...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rank LA,Walsh NM,Liu R,Lim FY,Bok JW,Huang M,Keller NP,Gellman SH,Hull CM

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonism of antibiotic activity by peritoneal dialysate has been postulated to be a cause of failure of treatment of peritonitis complicating continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. We evaluated by a case-control study whether unexpected treatment failure could be attributed to such antagonism. Bacteria isolated ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ludlam H,Johnston L,Hopkins P

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Michaelis-Menten inhibitory constants (Kis) and the concentrations required for 50% inhibition of the Plasmodium falciparum dihydropteroate synthetase were determined for six sulfa drugs. These drugs inhibited the in vitro growth of P. falciparum (50% lethal concentration) at concentrations of 30 to 500 nM; these ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhang Y,Meshnick SR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are conflicting data on the association of vancomycin MIC (VAN-MIC) with treatment outcomes in Staphylococcus aureus infections. We investigated the relationship between high VAN-MIC and 30-day mortality and identified the risk factors for mortality in a large cohort of patients with invasive S. aureus (ISA) inf...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Song KH,Kim M,Kim CJ,Cho JE,Choi YJ,Park JS,Ahn S,Jang HC,Park KH,Jung SI,Yoon N,Kim DM,Hwang JH,Lee CS,Lee JH,Kwak YG,Kim ES,Park SY,Park Y,Lee KS,Lee YS,Kim HB

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen oral streptococci and 18 enterococci were tested for the presence of DNA sequences homologous to the conjugative transposon Tn916 encoding tetracycline resistance. All the strains were resistant to tetracyclines, including minocycline, and most of them were resistant to other antibiotics. Tn916-like structur...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bentorcha F,Clermont D,de Cespédès G,Horaud T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BILN 2061 is a novel, specific hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 serine protease inhibitor discovered by Boehringer Ingelheim that has shown potent activity against HCV replicons in tissue culture and is currently under clinical investigation for the treatment of HCV infection. The poor fidelity of the HCV RNA-dependent RNA...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lu L,Pilot-Matias TJ,Stewart KD,Randolph JT,Pithawalla R,He W,Huang PP,Klein LL,Mo H,Molla A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five R plasmids transferred from Asian strains of Vibrio cholerae all proved to be members of compatibility group C. A non-self-transmissible plasmid, stable in V. cholerae, was mobilized for transfer to Escherichia coli K-12 and found to be unstably inherited in that host. Plasmids of group C and P transferred to a w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hedges RW,Vialard JL,Pearson NJ,O'Grady F

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00