Percentages and distributions of teicoplanin- and vancomycin-resistant strains among coagulase-negative staphylococci.

abstract：:The effects of amphotericin B and fluconazole on the extracellular and intracellular growth of Candida albicans were studied. With respect to the extracellular growth of C. albicans, antifungal activity was measured in terms of MICs and minimal fungicidal concentrations as well as by determination of the concentration...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： van Etten EW,van de Rhee NE,van Kampen KM,Bakker-Woudenberg IA

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:A cluster of genes involved in antibiotic and heavy metal resistance has been characterized from a clinical isolate of the gram-negative bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. These genes include a macrolide phosphotransferase (mphBM) and a cadmium efflux determinant (cadA), together with the gene cadC coding for its...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Alonso A,Sanchez P,Martínez JL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central-line-associated bloodstream infections are increasingly recognized to be associated with intraluminal microbial biofilms, and effective measures for the prevention and treatment of bloodstream infections remain lacking. This report evaluates a new commercially developed antimicrobial catheter lock solution (AC...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chandra J,Long L,Isham N,Mukherjee PK,DiSciullo G,Appelt K,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro pharmacodynamic model was used to simulate the in vivo pharmacokinetics of clarithromycin and 14-hydroxyclarithromycin in order to generate time-kill curves for three clinical isolates of Haemophilus influenzae (isolates 2019, 91-183, and 1746). Representative concentrations in serum or lung tissue and the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walker KJ,Larsson AJ,Zabinski RA,Rotschafer JC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flaviviruses comprise several medically important viruses, including Japanese encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, dengue virus (DENV), yellow fever virus, and Zika virus (ZIKV). A large outbreak of DENV and ZIKV occurred recently, leading to many cases of illness and death. However, despite decades of effort, we have...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chuang FK,Huang SM,Liao CL,Lee AR,Lien SP,Chiu YL,Chang TH,Tsai PL,Lin RJ,Shih CC,Tsai YJ,Lin GJ,Yen LC

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Biapenem is a parenteral carbapenem antibiotic that exhibits wide-ranging antibacterial activity, remarkable chemical stability, and extensive stability against human renal dehydropeptidase-I. Tebipenem is the active form of tebipenem pivoxil, a novel oral carbapenem antibiotic that has a high level of bioavailability...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yamada M,Watanabe T,Baba N,Takeuchi Y,Ohsawa F,Gomi S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) replication in primary duck hepatocytes was monitored by examining the synthesis of both DHBV DNA and DHBV core antigen. Several nucleoside analogs which were previously shown to inhibit the replication of DNA viruses (i.e., herpesviruses) and retroviruses were examined for their inhibito...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yokota T,Konno K,Chonan E,Mochizuki S,Kojima K,Shigeta S,de Clercq E

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard therapy of human visceral leishmaniasis with parenteral pentavalent antimonial agents is generally curative but has the disadvantages of a 28-day treatment course, occasional treatment failures, and toxicity. The antifungal and antileishmanial agent amphotericin B has been complexed with lipids to develop a l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berman JD,Ksionski G,Chapman WL,Waits VB,Hanson WL

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meropenem-vaborbactam (Vabomere) is highly active against Gram-negative pathogens, especially Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae The objective of these studies was to evaluate the efficacy of meropenem alone and in combination with vaborbactam in mouse thigh an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

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

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Moxifloxacin (MXF) is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that is effective against respiratory infections. However, the mechanisms of MXF lung diffusion are unknown. Active transport in other tissues has been suggested for several members of the fluoroquinolone family. In this study, transport of MXF was systematically inve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brillault J,De Castro WV,Harnois T,Kitzis A,Olivier JC,Couet W

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penetration of ciprofloxacin into heart tissue (valve and myocardium), mediastinal fat, and sternal bone marrow was the object of a prospective nonrandomized study involving 36 patients undergoing mitral and/or aortic valve replacement. Patients were divided into two groups of 18. Group 1 patients were administere...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mertes PM,Voiriot P,Dopff C,Scholl H,Clavey M,Villemot JP,Canton P,Dureux JB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized crossover trial, six volunteers received 200- and 400-mg doses of loracarbef (LY 163892), a new oral cephalosporin. Mean +/- standard error of the mean concentrations in serum obtained after 1.5 and 3 h were 13.2 +/- 2.8 and 4.3 +/- 0.7 mg/liter, respectively, after the 400-mg dose and 6.9 +/- 1.0 and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van der Auwera P

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2009, the first high-level ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain (H041) was isolated in Kyoto, Japan. The present study describes an intensified surveillance (antimicrobial resistance and molecular typing) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in Kyoto and its neighboring prefecture Osaka, Japan, in 2010 t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shimuta K,Unemo M,Nakayama S,Morita-Ishihara T,Dorin M,Kawahata T,Ohnishi M,Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Study Group.

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A remarkably high rate of adverse events is associated with the use of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. We examined the efficacies of sulfonamides alone in the prevention of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis, with the assumption that at least some of the adve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hughes WT,Killmar J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic candidiasis is a leading cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection with a high mortality rate despite treatment. Immune-based strategies are needed to improve outcomes. We previously reported that genetic deficiency in the chemokine receptor CCR1 improves survival and ameliorates tissue damage in Candida-infe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lionakis MS,Albert ND,Swamydas M,Lee CR,Loetscher P,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro selection of mutants with decreased susceptibility to ertapenem was performed using Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical strains producing either the bla(CTX-M-2), bla(CTX-M-3), bla(CTX-M-9), or bla(CTX-M-15) gene. Frequencies of mutants with decreased susceptibilities to ertapenem were similar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Girlich D,Poirel L,Nordmann P

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing of trimethoprim-resistant Escherichia coli clinical isolates identified a member of the trimethoprim-resistant type II dihydrofolate reductase gene family (dfrB). The dfrB4 gene was located within a class I integron flanked by multiple resistance genes. This arrangement was previously reported ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Toulouse JL,Edens TJ,Alejaldre L,Manges AR,Pelletier JN

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacies of cilofungin and amphotericin B separately and together in mice with disseminated candidiasis were studied. Male CD-1 mice (age, 5 weeks) were infected intravenously with 3 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans. At 4 days postinfection, intraperitoneal therapy was initiated and was continued for 14 days. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hanson LH,Perlman AM,Clemons KV,Stevens DA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoniazid (INH) remains the most safe and cost-effective drug for the treatment and prophylaxis of tuberculosis. The use of INH has increased over the past years, largely as a result of the coepidemic of human immunodeficiency virus infection. It is frequently given chronically to critically ill patients who are copre...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Desta Z,Soukhova NV,Flockhart DA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytochrome P-450-deficient mutant of Candida albicans, strain D10, was employed to study the mode of action of imidazole antifungal agents. This mutant accumulates exclusively 14-alpha-methylsterols, resulting in a sterol profile which mimics that of azole-treated wild-type strains. Since the widely accepted primary...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lees ND,Broughton MC,Sanglard D,Bard M

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro susceptibility tests were performed on 84 strains of Clostridium difficile to 11 antimicrobial agents. All isolates were from the stools of patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea or colitis in which there was a cytopathic toxin that was neutralized by Clostridium sordellii antitoxin. Over 95% of the str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dzink J,Bartlett JG

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii damages fetuses in utero and threatens immunocompromised individuals. The toxicity associated with standard antitoxoplasmal therapies, which target the folate pathway, underscores the importance of examining alternative pharmacological strategies. Parasitic pro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sullivan WJ Jr,Dixon SE,Li C,Striepen B,Queener SF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mus clinical isolate produces OXA-18, a pI 5.5 class D extended-spectrum beta-lactamase totally inhibited by clavulanic acid (L. N. Philippon, T. Naas, A.-T. Bouthors, V. Barakett, and P. Nordmann, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 41:2188-2195, 1997). A second beta-lactamase was cloned, and the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Naas T,Sougakoff W,Casetta A,Nordmann P

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use kinetic models to investigate how to design antimicrobial phage therapies to minimize emergence of resistant bacteria. We do this by modifying the "mutant selection window" hypothesis in a way that accounts for the ongoing self-replication of the phage. We show that components of combination phage therapies nee...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cairns BJ,Payne RJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of ceftazidime-avibactam, ceftolozane-tazobactam, and comparators were evaluated for 733 isolates displaying resistance to broad-spectrum cephalosporins and carrying extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) genes detected by whole-genome sequencing analysis. Isolates were collected during 2017 in U.S. hospi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Castanheira M,Doyle TB,Mendes RE,Sader HS

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiviral therapeutics are currently unavailable for treatment of coxsackievirus B3, which can cause life-threatening myocarditis. A modified small interfering RNA (siRNA) containing 5'-triphosphate, 3p-siRNA, was shown to induce RNA interference and interferon activation. We aimed to develop a potent antiviral treatm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ahn J,Ko A,Jun EJ,Won M,Kim YK,Ju ES,Jeon ES,Lee H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Candida albicans CDR1 and CDR2 genes code for highly homologous ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters which are overexpressed in azole-resistant clinical isolates and which confer resistance to multiple drugs by actively transporting their substrates out of the cells. These transporters are formed by two homolog...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gauthier C,Weber S,Alarco AM,Alqawi O,Daoud R,Georges E,Raymond M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic treatment for systemic mycoses is severely hampered by the extremely limited number of antifungals. The difficulty of treatment of fungal infections in the central nervous system is further compounded by the poor central nervous system (CNS) penetration of most antifungals due to the blood-brain barrier. O...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhai B,Wu C,Wang L,Sachs MS,Lin X

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of intravenous peramivir against influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus infection was evaluated in mice in which the immune system was suppressed by cyclophosphamide (CP) treatment. The mortality rate of the vehicle control group was 100%, and the mice lost 20% of their body weight on average by day 13 postinfecti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitano M,Kodama M,Itoh Y,Kanazu T,Kobayashi M,Yoshida R,Sato A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00