Oral ciprofloxacin compared with parenteral antibiotics in the treatment of osteomyelitis.

abstract：:Delafloxacin, an investigational anionic fluoroquinolone, is active against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. In this study, 200 Streptococcus pneumoniae (plus 30 levofloxacin-resistant isolates), 200 Haemophilus influenzae, and 100 Moraxella catarrhalis isolates selected primarily from the Un...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Flamm RK,Rhomberg PR,Huband MD,Farrell DJ

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Minibacterium massiliensis strain CIP107820 is a recently discovered waterborne Gram-negative rod isolated from hospital water samples. It harbors a chromosomally located gene encoding an Ambler class A extended-spectrum β-lactamase termed MIN-1, sharing 56%, 54%, and 51% amino acid identities with β-lactamases LUT-1,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bercot B,Nordmann P,Drancourt M,Poirel L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABT-492 is a novel quinolone with potent activity against gram-positive, gram-negative, and atypical pathogens, making this compound an ideal candidate for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. We therefore compared the in vitro pharmacodynamic activity of ABT-492 to that of levofloxacin, an antibiotic common...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gunderson SM,Hayes RA,Quinn JP,Danziger LH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penetration of cefonicid and cefazolin into cardiac tissue was compared after a single 30-mg/kg dose in 30 patients undergoing aortocoronary artery bypass graft surgery. Samples of the right atrial appendage, pericardial fluid, and serum were obtained at various times and assayed for drug content. The concentratio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dudley MN,Nightingale CH,Drezner AD,Low HB,Quintiliani R

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to macrolides and ketolides occurs mainly via alterations in RNA moieties of the drug-binding site. Using an A2058G mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis, additional telithromycin resistance was acquired via deletion of 15 residues from protein L22. Molecular modeling, based on the crystal structure of the larg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berisio R,Corti N,Pfister P,Yonath A,Böttger EC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of influenza viruses to antiviral drugs can emerge following medication or may result from natural variation. Two classes of anti-influenza virus drugs targeting either the M2 protein (amantadine and rimantadine) or neuraminidase (NA; oseltamivir and zanamivir) are currently licensed. These drugs are expect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Deyde VM,Nguyen T,Bright RA,Balish A,Shu B,Lindstrom S,Klimov AI,Gubareva LV

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of luliconazole, amorolfine, ciclopirox, and terbinafine were determined against 320 dermatophyte isolates from large toenails of onychomycosis patients enrolled into an ongoing phase 2b/3 clinical study. The geometric mean MIC for luliconazole was 0.00022 μg/ml against all isolates, compared t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wiederhold NP,Fothergill AW,McCarthy DI,Tavakkol A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of five parenteral cephalosporins tested against 43 lactobacilli, cephaloridine, cefazolin, and cefamandole were the most active inhibitory and bactericidal agents. Timed-kill analysis revealed a slow bactericidal effect, with significant declines in mean minimal bactericidal concentration values at 48 h versus 24 h. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bayer AS,Chow AW,Concepcion NF,Guze LB

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite dose-limiting nephrotoxicity concerns, polymyxin B has resurged as the treatment of last resort for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. However, the pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and nephrotoxic properties of polymyxin B still are not thoroughly understood. The objective of this study w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Manchandani P,Zhou J,Ledesma KR,Truong LD,Chow DS,Eriksen JL,Tam VH

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The rabbit kidney cell line LLC-RK1 was tested for its ability to discriminate the toxicities of six cephalosporin antibiotics according to their in vivo nephrotoxic potentials in rabbits. With the exception of cephalothin, which was markedly toxic to kidney cells in vitro, a good correlation between in vitro toxicity...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Williams PD,Laska DA,Tay LK,Hottendorf GH

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of combination posaconazole-liposomal amphotericin B (LAmB) therapy to monotherapy with either drug in diabetic ketoacidotic or neutropenic mice with disseminated zygomycosis caused by Rhizopus oryzae. Combination therapy was no better than LAmB alone, and posaconazole monotherapy did not impr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ibrahim AS,Gebremariam T,Schwartz JA,Edwards JE Jr,Spellberg B

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline-resistant isolates of Pasteurella multocida and Pasteurella haemolytica obtained from various locations in the United States and Canada were studied to determine the distribution of the tet(H) gene. Of the 31 isolates examined, 25 were found to contain the tet(H) gene. Chromosomal or plasmid DNA obtained ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hansen LM,Blanchard PC,Hirsh DC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A global sample of group A streptococci (GAS) revealed > or =80 separate acquisitions of tetracycline resistance. Of 244 clones, 38 and 25% displayed resistance to tetracycline and erythromycin, respectively; a relatively high proportion (15%) were resistant to both classes of drugs. tet(M) displayed a highly signific...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ayer V,Tewodros W,Manoharan A,Skariah S,Luo F,Bessen DE

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:The objective of this study is to evaluate the results of single-day doxycycline therapy for Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF). This is a prospective cohort study of cases with confirmed MSF treated with the single-day doxycycline regimen in a teaching hospital from 1990 to 2015. Patients received two oral doses of 20...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Espejo E,Andrés M,Garcia MC,Fajardo A,Pérez J,Bella F

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Azole antifungal resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus is a worldwide concern. As in most public hospitals in Brazil, antifungal susceptibility tests are not routinely performed for filamentous fungi at our institution. A 4-year retrospective azole antifungal resistance screening revealed two azole-resistant A. fumigatu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pontes L,Beraquet CAG,Arai T,Pigolli GL,Lyra L,Watanabe A,Moretti ML,Schreiber AZ

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:aac(6')-Ib-cr is a plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance gene embedded within a gene cassette, most often within an integron. It confers resistance to quinolones and aminoglycosides. We investigated the role of a 101-bp fragment frequently present upstream of the aac(6')-Ib-cr gene cassette and found that it contribut...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Raherison S,Jove T,Gaschet M,Pinault E,Tabesse A,Torres C,Ploy MC

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Lividomycin specifically inhibited bacterial protein synthesis and had codon misreading activity. Lividomycin, moreover, stimulated the binding of aminoacyl-transfer ribonucleic acid to ribosomes, but did not show any significant effects on the formation of aminoacyl-transfer ribonucleic acid and the puromycin reactio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yamaguchi M,Eda J,Kobayashi F,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance, novel strategies are required for combatting resistant pathogens. Combination therapy, in which multiple drugs are used to treat an infection, has proven highly successful in the treatment of cancer and HIV. However, this practice has proven challenging for t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adamowicz EM,Harcombe WR

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Extended-spectrum class C β-lactamases have evolved to rapidly inactivate expanded-spectrum cephalosporins, a class of antibiotics designed to be resistant to hydrolysis by β-lactamase enzymes. To better understand the mechanism by which Acinetobacter-derived cephalosporinase-7 (ADC-7), a chromosomal AmpC enzyme, hydr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Curtis BN,Smolen KA,Barlow SJ,Caselli E,Prati F,Taracila MA,Bonomo RA,Wallar BJ,Powers RA

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a rapid, precise, and simple procedure for the quantitation of azlocillin in serum and in aqueous solutions by high-pressure, reverse-phase liquid chromatography. This method uses a single precipitation step, detection by dual-wavelength monitoring (220 and 254 nm), and quantitation by comparison with an i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weber A,Opheim KE,Wong K,Smith AL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida infections represent a major threat in neonatal intensive care units. This is the first prospective study to obtain caspofungin plasma levels and safety data for neonates and very young infants. Patients of <3 months of age receiving intravenous amphotericin B for documented or highly suspected candidiasis wer...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sáez-Llorens X,Macias M,Maiya P,Pineros J,Jafri HS,Chatterjee A,Ruiz G,Raghavan J,Bradshaw SK,Kartsonis NA,Sun P,Strohmaier KM,Fallon M,Bi S,Stone JA,Chow JW

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from patients with endocarditis were examined in vitro for susceptibility to rifampin, nafcillin, and vancomycin and to combinations of rifampin with nafcillin or vancomycin. Minimum bactericidal concentrations of rifampin ranged from 0.0031 to 0.0125 mug/ml, of nafcill...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tuazon CU,Lin MY,Sheagren JN

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida biofilm infections pose an increasing threat in the health care setting due to the drug resistance associated with this lifestyle. Several mechanisms underlie the resistance phenomenon. In Candida albicans, one mechanism involves drug impedance by the biofilm matrix linked to β-1,3 glucan. Here, we show this i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mitchell KF,Taff HT,Cuevas MA,Reinicke EL,Sanchez H,Andes DR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane permeability to meropenem and imipenem in Escherichia coli K-12 was investigated, and its porin-deficient mutants were transformed with a constructed vector carrying the carbapenem-hydrolyzing CphA metallo-beta-lactamase gene. By using the method of Zimmermann and Rosselet, meropenem was shown to pe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cornaglia G,Guan L,Fontana R,Satta G

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A micellar formulation of amphotericin B (AmB) solubilized with poloxamer 188 was evaluated against an AmB Leishmania donovani-resistant line. A concave isobologram showed a synergistic effect of this association against promastigotes. This result was confirmed with amastigotes since the 50% effective concentration of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Espuelas S,Legrand P,Loiseau PM,Bories C,Barratt G,Irache JM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A penicillin beta-lactamase (PCase) was extracted from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Rms139(+) and purified by means of column chromatography. The isoelectric point of Rms139 PCase was 5.7 and its molecular weight was 22,500 +/- 1,000. The optimal pH for the hydrolysis of benzylpenicillin was 7.0 to 7.5 and the optimal tempe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sawada Y,Yaginuma S,Tai M,Iyobe S,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R factors were detected in Vibrio anguillarum strains from vibrio-diseased freshwater fish, ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis), in Japan. It was found that 65 out of the 68 random isolates from epidemics of vibrio disease in 1973 carried transferable drug resistance factors. The most common type determined resistance to sul...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aoki T,Egusa S,Arai T

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports, for the first time, the presence of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 (NDM-1) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Moreover, this is the first report of the NDM-1 presence in the Balkan region. Cosmid gene libraries of carbapenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates MMA83 and MMA533 were scre...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jovcic B,Lepsanovic Z,Suljagic V,Rackov G,Begovic J,Topisirovic L,Kojic M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from cystic fibrosis patients after treatment with azithromycin were cross-resistant to azithromycin and erythromycin. None of the isolates contained erm or msr(A) genes, but they all carried either A2058G/U or A2059G mutations within the rrl genes, with a majority of the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Prunier AL,Malbruny B,Tandé D,Picard B,Leclercq R

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00