NVC-422 inactivates Staphylococcus aureus toxins.

abstract：:Extensive biochemical testing and 16S rRNA and rpoB sequence analysis revealed that clinical strain CF01Ent1, initially identified as Buttiauxella agrestis by the use of Api 32 biochemical strips, is a new organism in the Enterobacteriaceae family. It produced an inducible AmpC-type beta-lactamase whose sequence share...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bonnet R,Chanal C,Ageron E,Sirot D,De Champs C,Grimont P,Sirot J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receipt of parenteral nutrition (PN) remains an independent risk factor for developing catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSI) caused by fungi, including by the polymorphic fungus Candida albicans, which is notoriously adept at forming drug-resistant biofilm structures. Among a variety of macronutrients, PN s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Willems HME,Stultz JS,Coltrane ME,Fortwendel JP,Peters BM

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) causes hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). The rates of STEC infection and complications, including death, are highest among young children and elderly individuals. There are no causal therapies. Because Stx is the primary pathological agent lead...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bitzan M,Poole R,Mehran M,Sicard E,Brockus C,Thuning-Roberson C,Rivière M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet microbicidal proteins (PMPs) are believed to be integral to host defense against endovascular infection. We previously demonstrated that susceptibility to thrombin-induced PMP 1 (tPMP-1) in vitro negatively influences Candida albicans virulence in the rabbit model of infective endocarditis (IE). This study ev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yeaman MR,Cheng D,Desai B,Kupferwasser LI,Xiong YQ,Gank KD,Edwards JE Jr,Bayer AS

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethambutol (EMB) is a major component of the first-line therapy of tuberculosis. Mutations in codon 306 of embB (embB306) were suggested as a major resistance mechanism in clinical isolates. To directly analyze the impact of individual embB306 mutations on EMB resistance, we used allelic exchange experiments to genera...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Plinke C,Walter K,Aly S,Ehlers S,Niemann S

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a severe disease caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis Current chemotherapeutic treatment options based on benzimidazoles are of limited effectiveness, which underlines the need to find new antiechinococcosis drugs. Metformin is an antihyperglycemic and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Loos JA,Dávila VA,Brehm K,Cumino AC

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major neglected tropical diseases, schistosomiasis, is currently treated and controlled with a single drug, praziquantel. The quest for an alternative drug is fueled by the lack of activity of praziquantel against juvenile Schistosoma worms and the fear of emerging resistance. The synthetic ozonide OZ418 ha...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Leonidova A,Vargas M,Huwyler J,Keiser J

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-lactamase was purified from Serratia marcescens GN16694; it hydrolyzed T-5575 and oxime-type cephalosporins, i.e., cefuroxime and ceftazidime. Its isoelectric point and molecular weight were 8.6 and 42,000, respectively. This enzyme was not inhibited by EDTA and clavulanic acid. This enzyme is an unusual beta-l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matsumura N,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-human immunodeficiency virus type I (anti-HIV-1) effects of gamma-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester (gamma-GCE; TEI-2306) were examined in vitro. In initial studies using a vigorously HIV-1-producing human T-lymphocytic cell line, gamma-GCE displayed a novel biphasic repressive effect on chronic HIV-1 infection th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kubota S,Shetty S,Zhang H,Kitahara S,Pomerantz RJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus is a major nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pathogen and is responsible for about 80% of all pulmonary infections caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria. Clofazimine is an effective drug active against M. abscessus, but the mechanism of resistance to clofazimine in M. abscessus is unknown. To...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen Y,Chen J,Zhang S,Shi W,Zhang W,Zhu M,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infections caused by the Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex (MAC) are the most frequent opportunistic bacterial infections in patients with AIDS. MAC isolates are resistant to many of the standard antituberculous drugs. Failure to obtain significant activities of certain drugs is due to difficu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mehta RT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of penetration of quinolones through the bacterial outer membrane was studied with lipopolysaccharide-deficient and porin-deficient mutants. The data indicated that the lipopolysaccharide layer might form a permeability barrier for hydrophobic quinolones such as nalidixic acid but not for hydrophilic qui...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hirai K,Aoyama H,Irikura T,Iyobe S,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystathionine gamma-lyase (EC 4.4.1.1) was purified from Streptomyces cattleya, an actinomycete which produces the unusual beta-lactam antibiotic thienamycin. The enzyme displays broad substrate specificity and is similar to gamma-lyases purified from other microorganisms. That the gamma-lyase functions in vivo to pro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Williamson JM,Meyer R,Inamine E

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal gyrA gene sequence data, MICs, and mouse infection were used to define the ciprofloxacin breakpoint for Neisseria meningitidis. Residue T91 or D95 of GyrA was altered in all meningococcal isolates with MICs of ≥ 0.064 μg/ml but not among isolates with MICs of ≤ 0.032 μg/ml. Experimental infection of cipr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hong E,Thulin Hedberg S,Abad R,Fazio C,Enríquez R,Deghmane AE,Jolley KA,Stefanelli P,Unemo M,Vazquez JA,Veyrier FJ,Taha MK

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remdesivir was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Remdesivir is the prodrug of an adenosine analogue that inhibits viral replication of several RNA virus families, including Coronaviridae Preclinical data in animal ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aleissa MM,Silverman EA,Paredes Acosta LM,Nutt CT,Richterman A,Marty FM

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In 24 patients with hepatitic C virus (HCV) infection who participated in a randomized trial with alpha 2B interferon, HCV RNA analysis by the polymerase chain reaction with two separate primer sets was performed at weeks 0, 4, and 24 and during a follow-up period of 6 to 9 months. Prior to therapy all patients were H...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kleter GE,Brouwer JT,Heijtink RA,Schalm SW,Quint WG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basis of bactericidal versus bacteriostatic action of antibiotics and the mechanism of bacterial cell death are largely unknown. Related to this important issue is the essential invulnerability to killing of persisters: cells forming a small subpopulation largely responsible for the recalcitrance of biofilms to ch...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaldalu N,Mei R,Lewis K

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:New drugs are needed to shorten the duration of tuberculosis treatment. R207910, a diarylquinoline, is very active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis both in vitro and in mice. In healthy volunteers, the coadministration of R207910 and rifampin induced the increased metabolism of R207910, resulting in a 50% reduction ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lounis N,Gevers T,Van Den Berg J,Andries K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral regulatory complexes perform critical functions during virus replication and are important targets for therapeutic intervention. In HIV, the Tat and Rev proteins form complexes with multiple viral and cellular factors to direct transcription and export of the viral RNA. These complexes are composed of many prote...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nakamura RL,Burlingame MA,Yang S,Crosby DC,Talbot DJ,Chui K,Frankel AD,Renslo AR

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanovirin-N (CV-N), an 11-kDa protein originally isolated from the cyanobacterium Nostoc ellipsosporum, potently inactivates diverse strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), HIV-2, simian immunodeficiency virus, and feline immunodeficiency virus. It has been well established that the HIV surface envelo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mori T,Boyd MR

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of LY146032 and seven comparative antimicrobial agents against 14 species of staphylococci, streptococci, and enterococci were studied. MICs of LY146032 were less than or equal to 0.5 microgram/ml for all staphylococci, including oxacillin-resistant strains; less than or equal to 0.25 microgram...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fass RJ,Helsel VL

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:The effect of moxalactam and cefuroxime on mitogen-stimulated human peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes was studied. Mononuclear leukocytes, mitogen, and antibiotic were added to microtiter wells. Cells were cultured for 3 days, pulsed with tritiated thymidine, and then counted. Compared with control cell cultures...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Manzella JP,Clark JK

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 201 Staphylococcus aureus isolates were surveyed for susceptibility to ciprofloxacin and trovafloxacin. Of 66 methicillin-resistant isolates, 89% were ciprofloxacin resistant and 6% were also trovafloxacin resistant. Trovafloxacin-resistant strains had unusual patterns of quinoline resistance mutations in D...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fitzgibbon JE,John JF,Delucia JL,Dubin DT

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using measured free fraction and 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) values for the human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitors lopinavir (LPV) and ritonavir (RTV) in tissue culture media with various protein concentrations ranging from 5 to 50%, we estimated serum-free IC50 values for each drug. The range of ser...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hickman D,Vasavanonda S,Nequist G,Colletti L,Kati WM,Bertz R,Hsu A,Kempf DJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequences of two IncHI2 plasmids, pEC-IMP and pEC-IMPQ, from metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacter cloacae clinical isolates were determined. The two conjugative plasmids are almost identical, but pEC-IMPQ carries an additional segment containing an orf513 (ISCR1), a truncated 3' conserved sequence, an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen YT,Liao TL,Liu YM,Lauderdale TL,Yan JJ,Tsai SF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of occurrence of the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing phenotype among Escherichia coli isolates in Tel Aviv is 12% (22). The aim of this study was to understand the molecular epidemiology of E. coli ESBL producers and to identify the ESBL genes carried by them. We studied 20 single-patient ES...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chmelnitsky I,Carmeli Y,Leavitt A,Schwaber MJ,Navon-Venezia S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic therapy with penicillin, doxycycline, and ceftriaxone has proven to be effective for the treatment of Lyme borreliosis. In some patients, however, it was noticed that borreliae can survival in the tissues in spite of seemingly adequate therapy. For a better understanding of this phenomenon, we investigated ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kersten A,Poitschek C,Rauch S,Aberer E

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00