Synergistic activity of colistin plus rifampin against colistin-resistant KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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：:Fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae mainly involves stepwise mutations predominantly in the parC and gyrA genes. We have developed a single-run real-time PCR assay for detection of the four most common mutations in the quinolone resistance-determining regions of these genes. This assay provides a us...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Page S,Vernel-Pauillac F,O'Connor O,Bremont S,Charavay F,Courvalin P,Goarant C,Le Hello S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variant (SCV) phenotype has been associated with relapsing and antibiotic-refractory infections. However, little is known about the activities of antibiotics on clinical SCVs. Here, we demonstrated that SCVs without detectable auxotrophies were at least as susceptible to most β-l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Idelevich EA,Kriegeskorte A,Schleimer N,Peters G,von Eiff C,Becker K

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of NVP-PDF386 (VRC4887), a novel new peptide deformylase inhibitor, and those of levofloxacin and clarithromycin were tested against 21 isolates of Chlamydia pneumoniae. The MIC at which 90% of the isolates were inhibited and the minimal bactericidal concentration at which 90% of the isolates wer...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roblin PM,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new natural TEM derivative, named TEM-87, was identified in a Proteus mirabilis isolate from an Italian hospital. Compared to TEM-1, TEM-87 contains the following mutations: E104K, R164C, and M182T. Kinetic analysis of TEM-87 revealed extended-spectrum activity against oxyimino cephalosporins (preferentially ceftazi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perilli M,Segatore B,De Massis MR,Franceschini N,Bianchi C,Rossolini GM,Amicosante G

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Mycoplasma pneumoniae was completely prevented by 0.06 mug of actinomycin D/ml, and 0.00375 mug/ml caused 90% inhibition. It thus appears that M. pneumoniae is more susceptible to actinomycin D than previously reported. Low concentrations (0.019 mug/ml) of the antibiotic primarily inhibited ribonucleic acid ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fletcher RD,Jayavasu C,Yoo S,Albertson JN

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is rapidly killed by the endopeptidase lysostaphin, and the addition of beta-lactam antibiotics provides synergistic killing. We investigated the possibility that beta-lactams given in combination with lysostaphin would improve the activity of lysostaphin against oxacillin-res...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kiri N,Archer G,Climo MW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An NDM-1 carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate was recovered from a patient hospitalized in France after a previous hospitalization in Serbia. Genetic studies revealed that the blaNDM-1 gene was surrounded by insertion sequence ISAba125 and a truncated bleomycin resistance gene. This blaNDM-1 region w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Janvier F,Jeannot K,Tessé S,Robert-Nicoud M,Delacour H,Rapp C,Mérens A

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Monobactams containing 3 beta-aminothiazolyl oxime side chains (SQ 81,377, SQ 81,402, azthreonam, and SQ 26,917) have poor affinities for the broad-spectrum beta-lactamases TEM-2 and K1. Addition of a 4-methyl substituent significantly increased stability to hydrolysis by these enzymes. P99 cephalosporinase from Enter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bush K,Freudenberger JS,Sykes RB

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal activity of the novel beta-defensin hBD-3 against 28 species and 55 strains of gram-positive cocci and gram-negative fermentative and nonfermentative rods was tested. All strains proved to be highly or intermediately susceptible to hBD-3 (minimal bactericidal concentration [MBC],

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sahly H,Schubert S,Harder J,Rautenberg P,Ullmann U,Schröder J,Podschun R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus flavus, and Aspergillus niger were tested for in vitro susceptibility to amphotericin B alone and in combination with fixed concentrations of tetracycline, doxycycline, or minocycline, using buffered minimal essential medium in microtiter plates. Enhanced inhibitory activi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hughes CE,Harris C,Peterson LR,Gerding DN

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide antibiotics like erythromycin can prevent the formation of the 50S ribosomal subunit in growing bacterial cells, in addition to their inhibitory effect on translation. The significance of this novel finding has been further investigated. The 50% inhibitory doses of erythromycin for the inhibition of translat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Champney WS,Burdine R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An axenic amastigote culture system was utilized to directly assess the stage-specific antileishmanial effects of antimony on amastigotes of Leishmania donovani devoid of the macrophage host cell. Pentostam, which contains antimony in the form of sodium stibogluconate and the preservative chlorocresol, was used. Cell ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ephros M,Waldman E,Zilberstein D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) isolate was obtained from a patient in Pennsylvania in September 2002. Species identification was confirmed by standard biochemical tests and analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA, gyrA, and gyrB sequences; all of the results were consistent with the S. aureus identification...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tenover FC,Weigel LM,Appelbaum PC,McDougal LK,Chaitram J,McAllister S,Clark N,Killgore G,O'Hara CM,Jevitt L,Patel JB,Bozdogan B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical constants and some structural parameters (topological, steric, and electronic) of eight third-generation monofluorate quinolones (six uncommercialized and two used clinically [ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin]) were determined: pKa, intrinsic solubility (S0), chromatographic capacity factor, partitio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escribano E,Calpena AC,Garrigues TM,Freixas J,Domenech J,Moreno J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, there is only one drug in use, praziquantel, to treat more than 250 million people afflicted with schistosomiasis, a debilitating parasitic disease. The aryl hydantoin Ro 13-3978 is a promising drug candidate with in vivo activity superior to that of praziquantel against both adult and juvenile Schistosoma ma...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Panic G,Ruf MT,Keiser J

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The following compounds, which possess anti-R-plasmid activity (Hahn and Ciak, 1976) in decreasing order, were shown by viscometric titration to change systematically the superhelical density of closed circular PM2 deoxyribonucleic acid in the manner of intercalators: ethidium bromide, quinacrine, acridine orange, qui...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Allison RG,Hahn FE

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halocidin is an antimicrobial peptide found in the tunicate. A series of experiments were previously conducted in an attempt to develop a novel antibiotic derived from halocidin, as the peptide was determined to evidence profound antimicrobial activity against a variety of antibiotic-resistant microbes, with significa...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jang WS,Lee SC,Lee YS,Shin YP,Shin KH,Sung BH,Kim BS,Lee SH,Lee IH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphonoformate (PF) at a concentration of 5 to 10 mug/ml inhibited the growth of type 1 strains of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in tissue culture, whereas 20 to 30 mug/ml was required for inhibition of type 2 strains and about 50 mug/ml was required for murine cytomegalovirus. In mice inoculated intraperitoneally or i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kern ER,Glasgow LA,Overall JC Jr,Reno JM,Boezi JA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoprotein (NP) binds the viral RNA genome and associates with the polymerase in a ribonucleoprotein complex (RNP) required for transcription and replication of influenza A virus. NP has no cellular counterpart, and the NP sequence is highly conserved, which led to considering NP a hot target in the search for ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lejal N,Tarus B,Bouguyon E,Chenavas S,Bertho N,Delmas B,Ruigrok RW,Di Primo C,Slama-Schwok A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin and tobramycin inhibited the accumulation of extracellular proteases secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The secretion of protease was inhibited at concentrations of these drugs that were below the level required to inhibit general protein synthesis. Neither magnesium ions nor high ionic strength antagonize...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Warren RL,Baker NR,Johnson J,Stapleton MJ

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration of 2'-deoxy-3'-oxa-4'-thiocytidine (BCH-10652), a nucleoside analog structurally similar to lamivudine (3TC), caused dose-dependent inhibition of viral replication in SCID-hu Thy/Liv mice infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 NL4-3 and with an NL4-3 clone containing the M184V mutation i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stoddart CA,Moreno ME,Linquist-Stepps VD,Bare C,Bogan MR,Gobbi A,Buckheit RW Jr,Bedard J,Rando RF,McCune JM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GSK1322322 is a novel inhibitor of peptide deformylase (PDF) with good in vitro activity against bacteria associated with community-acquired pneumonia and skin infections. We have characterized the in vivo pharmacodynamics (PD) of GSK1322322 in immunocompetent animal models of infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hoover J,Lewandowski T,Straub RJ,Novick SJ,DeMarsh P,Aubart K,Rittenhouse S,Zalacain M

更新日期：2015-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel trait for transferable resistance to high concentrations of trimethoprim was found to dominate among enterobacteria collected from different parts of Sri Lanka. Drug resistance was a result of the production of dihydrofolate reductase with a decreased sensitivity to antifolates. By characterization of the part...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sundström L,Vinayagamoorthy T,Sköld O

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current data indicate that once-daily aminoglycoside therapy is as efficacious as traditional multiple daily dosing and equally or less toxic. Our experience with once-daily gentamicin, 6 mg/kg of body weight led to a 10% (3 of 33 patients) occurrence of documented ototoxicity after prolonged aminoglycoside exposure. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singer C,Smith C,Krieff D

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bay 12-8039, a new 8-methoxy quinolone, was compared with other agents for activity against clinically relevant anaerobes. Bay 12-8039 inhibited 91 and 96% of the 410 test isolates at 2 and 4 micrograms/ml, respectively. Bay 12-8039 had activity comparable to that metronidazole and overall was at least 16-fold more ac...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aldridge KE,Ashcraft DS

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiencies of two dosage schedules of amikacin (2 x 10 mg/kg of body weight per 24 h and 1 x 20 mg/kg/24 h intramuscularly for 5 days) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis in rabbits were compared. Blood samples were drawn at various times after the first application, and amikacin concentrations in serum were a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Staneva M,Markova B,Atanasova I,Terziivanov D

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacodynamic properties of levofloxacin (an optically active isomer of ofloxacin), ofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin, alone and in combination with rifampin, were evaluated over 24 to 48 h against clinical isolates of methicillin-susceptible and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA 1199 and MRSA 494, respectively)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kang SL,Rybak MJ,McGrath BJ,Kaatz GW,Seo SM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannopeptimycins alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon are new cyclic glycopeptide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus LL-AC98. Mannopeptimycins gamma, delta, and epsilon, which have an isovaleryl substitution at various positions on the terminal mannose of the disaccharide moiety, demonstrated moderat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singh MP,Petersen PJ,Weiss WJ,Janso JE,Luckman SW,Lenoy EB,Bradford PA,Testa RT,Greenstein M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00