A potent plant-derived antifungal acetylenic acid mediates its activity by interfering with fatty acid homeostasis.

abstract：:5-episisomicin (Sch 22591) is a novel semisynthetic aminoglycoside with a spectrum and potency similar to gentamicin in its activity against susceptible bacterial strains, but with increased potency against Pseudomonas, Providencia, and Proteus rettgeri. It is also more active than tobramycin and amikacin against thes...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Waitz JA,Miller GH,Moss E Jr,Chiu PJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorhexidine (Hibiscrub; ICI) is generally accepted to be effective as an antiseptic hand wash for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), but there is dispute whether the chlorhexidine MIC for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains is higher than that for MSSA strains and, indeed, whether it is...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cookson BD,Bolton MC,Platt JH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of sparfloxacin, temafloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, tetracycline, cephalothin, penicillin G, and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid against 173 recent clinical bite wound isolates were determined by agar dilution. Sparfloxacin was active against all strains (MIC for ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metallo-β-lactamase VIM-4, mainly found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Acinetobacter baumannii, was produced in Escherichia coli and characterized by biochemical and X-ray techniques. A detailed kinetic study performed in the presence of Zn²+ at concentrations ranging from 0.4 to 100 μM showed that VIM-4 exhibits a ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lassaux P,Traoré DA,Loisel E,Favier A,Docquier JD,Sohier JS,Laurent C,Bebrone C,Frère JM,Ferrer JL,Galleni M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic options for severe infections caused by strains of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (ORSE) are very limited. With the increasing resistance of such strains to aminoglycosides, rifampin, and currently available quinolone agents, as well as the recent docu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bayer AS,Li C,Ing M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftaroline is a new cephalosporin with bactericidal activity against resistant Gram-positive organisms, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, as well as common Gram-negative organisms. This study tested the prodrug, ceftaroline fosamil, against...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cottagnoud P,Cottagnoud M,Acosta F,Stucki A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both scid and BALB/c mouse-Leishmania donovani models, hexadecyphosphocholine (miltefosine) and AmBisome had similar levels of activity. In contrast, sodium stibogluconate (Pentostam) was significantly less active against L. donovani in scid mice than in BALB/c mice. The in vitro anti-leishmanial activity of miltef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escobar P,Yardley V,Croft SL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients received a loading dose of tobramycin of 60 mg/m2 intravenously over 0.5 h followed immediately by 60 mg/m2 over 2 h every 4 h. The highest mean serum concentration (at the end of the loading dose) was 6.0 +/- 0.3 microgram/ml (range, 3.2 to 10.9 microgram/ml). The mean serum concentration 2 h after the e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lawson RD,Bodey GP,Pan T,Smith TL

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some Kelch mutations of the Plasmodium falciparum K13 protein confer increased survival to dihydroartemisinin (DHA)-treated ring-stage parasites. Here, we asked if K13 mutations affect a dormancy phenotype allowing parasites to survive DHA exposure and then sorbitol selection. Although recrudescence from dormancy diff...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Breglio KF,Rahman RS,Sá JM,Hott A,Roberts DJ,Wellems TE

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one children <8 years of age treated for brucellosis with oral minocycline (2.5 mg/kg) twice daily for 3 weeks were recalled and examined to check for dental staining and defects. Dental staining and defects were found in 14 of 41 exposed children (34.1%) and in 30 of 82 matched controls (36.6%), respectively (P...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cascio A,Di Liberto C,D'Angelo M,Iaria C,Scarlata F,Titone L,Campisi G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight healthy male volunteers received 1 g of either ceftazidime or cefamandole as an intravenous infection. Serial blood samples were taken over the next 8 h. Urine samples were collected over 24 h. Levels of these antibiotics were measured in the fluid of blisters resulting from application of cantharides. The conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Armstrong GC,Wise R,Brown RM,Hancox J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are limited long-term data on the trends in incidence and characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia (MRSAB) in intensive care units (ICUs) in which infection control measures have been adopted. We evaluated the trend of incidence and changes in characteristics of MRSA bacte...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kim H,Kim ES,Lee SC,Yang E,Kim HS,Sung H,Kim MN,Jung J,Kim MJ,Kim SH,Lee SO,Choi SH,Woo JH,Kim YS,Chong YP

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Paradoxical growth of some Candida isolates occurs at concentrations above the MIC for echinocandins. In 60 Candida bloodstream isolates from cancer patients (20 C. albicans isolates and 10 isolates each of C. parapsilosis, C. tropicalis, C. krusei, and C. glabrata), paradoxical growth was more frequent with caspofung...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chamilos G,Lewis RE,Albert N,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces bacteria are renowned for their ability to produce bioactive secondary metabolites. Recently, synthetic biology has enabled the production of intermediates and shunt products, which may have altered biological activities compared to the end products of the pathways. Here, we have evaluated the potential o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Oja T,San Martin Galindo P,Taguchi T,Manner S,Vuorela PM,Ichinose K,Metsä-Ketelä M,Fallarero A

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Coadministration of nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) and artemether-lumefantrine is reported to result in variable changes in lumefantrine exposure. We conducted an intensive pharmacokinetic study with 11 HIV-infected adults who were receiving artemether-lumefantrine plus nevirapine-based ART, and we comp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parikh S,Fehintola F,Huang L,Olson A,Adedeji WA,Darin KM,Morse GD,Murphy RL,Taiwo BO,Akinyinka OO,Adewole IF,Aweeka FT,Scarsi KK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe outcomes of patients with infections with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) who received ertapenem-containing double-carbapenem therapy (ECDCT). Clinical success was observed in 7/18 (39%) patients overall: bloodstream infections, 3/7 (43%); pneumonia, 1/5 (20%); intraabdominal infections, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cprek JB,Gallagher JC

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 98 isolates of JK diphtheroids to teichomycin, vancomycin, and eight other antibiotics was investigated. Teichomycin and vancomycin were extremely active against all the isolates tested. The 90% minimal inhibitory concentrations for teichomycin and vancomycin were 1.56 and 0.78 microgr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jadeja L,Fainstein V,LeBlanc B,Bodey GP

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthopoxvirus infections, such as smallpox, can lead to severe systemic disease and result in considerable morbidity and mortality in immunologically naïve individuals. Treatment with ST-246, a small-molecule inhibitor of virus egress, has been shown to provide protection against severe disease and death induced by se...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berhanu A,King DS,Mosier S,Jordan R,Jones KF,Hruby DE,Grosenbach DW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared nine susceptibility testing methods and 12 endpoints for anidulafungin, caspofungin, and micafungin with the same collection of blinded FKS hot spot mutant (n = 29) and wild-type isolates (n = 94). The susceptibility tests included EUCAST Edef 7.1, agar dilution, Etest, and disk diffusion with RPMI...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arendrup MC,Garcia-Effron G,Lass-Flörl C,Lopez AG,Rodriguez-Tudela JL,Cuenca-Estrella M,Perlin DS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential alternatives, including linezolid, adjunctive rifampin, and moxifloxacin, were evaluated against vancomycin-tolerant (P9802-020) and vancomycin-susceptible clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model. Vancomycin exhibited maximal killing of 2-log(10) CFU/ml against P980...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cha R,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies using laboratory clones have demonstrated that several antiretroviral protease inhibitors (PIs) inhibit the growth of Plasmodium falciparum at concentrations that may be of clinical significance, especially during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and malaria coinfection. Using clinical isolat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lek-Uthai U,Suwanarusk R,Ruengweerayut R,Skinner-Adams TS,Nosten F,Gardiner DL,Boonma P,Piera KA,Andrews KT,Machunter B,McCarthy JS,Anstey NM,Price RN,Russell B

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The K70E mutation in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT) has become more prevalent in clinical samples, particularly in isolates derived from patients for whom triple-nucleoside regimens that include tenofovir (TNV), abacavir, and lamivudine (3TC) failed. To elucidate the molecular m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sluis-Cremer N,Sheen CW,Zelina S,Torres PS,Parikh UM,Mellors JW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LFF571 is a novel semisynthetic thiopeptide antibiotic with potent activity against a variety of Gram-positive pathogens, including Clostridium difficile. In vivo efficacy of LFF571 was compared to vancomycin in a hamster model of C. difficile infection (CDI). Infection was induced in Golden Syrian hamsters using a to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Trzasko A,Leeds JA,Praestgaard J,Lamarche MJ,McKenney D

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered 1 g of imipenem along with equal amounts of cilastatin (a dehydropeptidase I inhibitor) or 2 g of moxalactam intravenously over a period of 30 min to six volunteers in a crossover manner 1 week apart. The antibiotic concentrations and pharmacokinetics for each drug were determined and integrated with t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Standiford HC,Drusano GL,Bustamante CI,Rivera G,Forrest A,Tatem B,Leslie J,Moody M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the rising incidence of failures in the treatment of oropharyngeal candidosis in the case of severely immunosuppressed patients (mostly human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]-infected patients), there is need for the development of new, more effective agents and/or compounds that support the activity of the com...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kuipers ME,de Vries HG,Eikelboom MC,Meijer DK,Swart PJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon mutagenesis of a clinical isolate of Morganella morganii, G1492 (tigecycline MIC of 4 microg/ml), yielded two insertion knockout mutants for which tigecycline MICs were 0.03 microg/ml. Transposon insertions mapped to acrA, which is constitutively overexpressed in G1492, suggesting a role of the AcrAB efflux...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ruzin A,Keeney D,Bradford PA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous work, we described the possible relationship between a defect of purine-cytosine permease and the acquisition of a cross-resistance to the antifungal combination flucytosine (5FC) and fluconazole (FLC) in Candida lusitaniae (T. Noël, F. François, P. Paumard, C. Chastin, D. Brethes, and J. Villard, Antimi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chapeland-Leclerc F,Bouchoux J,Goumar A,Chastin C,Villard J,Noël T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial agents disrupt the ecological balance of the normal human microflora. Tigecycline, a member of a new class of antibiotics (glycylcyclines), has been shown to have a potent broad-spectrum activity against most gram-positive and gram-negative aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. The aim of the study was to inve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nord CE,Sillerström E,Wahlund E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the mechanism of insusceptibility of Spiroplasma citri to rifampin, we have cloned and sequenced its rpoB gene, which encodes the beta subunit of RNA polymerase. By comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence with sequences of beta subunits from susceptible and resistant bacteria, it was possible t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gaurivaud P,Laigret F,Bove JM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00