Cell wall and membrane changes associated with ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra.

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：:Recently, strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae have been isolated which are highly resistant to tetracycline (MICs of 16 to 64 micrograms/ml). This resistance was due to the acquisition of the resistance determinant tetM, a transposon-borne determinant initially found in the genus Streptococcus and more recently in Mycopl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morse SA,Johnson SR,Biddle JW,Roberts MC

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of HMR 3647 (telithromycin) and HMR 3004, two novel semisynthetic ketolides, were investigated and compared with that of the reference macrolide drug, clarithromycin, against 34 strains of slowly growing mycobacteria at pHs 6.8 and 7.4, as determined radiometrically. The MICs at pH 7.4 were abo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rastogi N,Goh KS,Berchel M,Bryskier A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro interactions of ciprofloxacin with imipenem and amikacin were evaluated by the killing-curve technique against 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains resistant to amikacin and resistant or moderately susceptible to ciprofloxacin and imipenem. Imipenem enhanced killing by ciprofloxacin in tests with 11 strains, whe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giamarellou H,Petrikkos G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and tolerability of a new parenteral carbapenem antibiotic, biapenem (L-627), were studied in healthy elderly volunteers aged 65 to 74 years (71.6 +/- 2.7 years [mean +/- standard deviation], n = 5; group B) and > or = 75 years (77.8 +/- 1.9 years, n = 5; group C), following single intravenous dos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kozawa O,Uematsu T,Matsuno H,Niwa M,Takiguchi Y,Matsumoto S,Minamoto M,Niida Y,Yokokawa M,Nagashima S,Kanamaru M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyene antifungal amphotericin B (AmB) is widely used to treat life-threatening fungal infections. Even though AmB resistance is exceptionally rare in fungi, most Aspergillus terreus isolates exhibit an intrinsic resistance against the drug in vivo and in vitro. Heat shock proteins perform a fundamental protectiv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blatzer M,Blum G,Jukic E,Posch W,Gruber P,Nagl M,Binder U,Maurer E,Sarg B,Lindner H,Lass-Flörl C,Wilflingseder D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic susceptibilities of 43 strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 identified in the summer of 1996 in Japan were investigated. Growth of 90% of O157 strains was inhibited at a concentration of < or = 0.5 micro/ml by several agents including fosfomycin with glucose-6-phosphate. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsuboi I,Ida H,Yoshikawa E,Hiyoshi S,Yamaji E,Nakayama I,Nonomiya T,Shigenobu F,Shimizu M,O'Hara K,Sawai T,Mizuoka K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacteriaceae producing the Ambler class D OXA-48 carbapenemase, combined with additional resistance mechanisms, such as permeability defects or cocarriage of class A, B, or C β-lactamases, can become highly resistant to most β-lactams currently in use, including carbapenems. A total of 45,872 Enterobacteriaceae ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kazmierczak KM,Bradford PA,Stone GG,de Jonge BLM,Sahm DF

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Broth dilution minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) readings were compared after different incubation periods and with different inoculum concentrations. The purpose was to determine the best conditions for obtaining early results as close as possible to overnight readings. Initially, 76 antibiotic-organism combinat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lampe MF,Aitken CL,Dennis PG,Forsythe PS,Patrick KE,Schoenknecht FD,Sherris JC

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is a major life-threatening complication among transplant recipients and patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. In a rat model of progressive pulmonary aspergillosis that is characterized by hyphal bronchopneumonia, aerosol amphotericin B (aero-AmB; 1.6 mg/kg given 2 days before infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schmitt HJ,Bernard EM,Häuser M,Armstrong D

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtherapeutic levels of oxytetracycline plus neomycin in animal feeds did not bring about increases in the quantity, prevalence, or shedding of Salmonella typhimurium in swine, calves, or chickens. In fact, the medication generally reduced the proportion of animals carrying S. typhimurium. The medicated groups were f...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Girard AE,English AR,Evangelisti DG,Lynch JE,Solomons IA

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disk agar diffusion method was developed for testing the susceptibility of rapidly growing yeasts in vitro. A totally defined, completely synthetic agar culture medium (synthetic amino acid medium, fungal) and clinical isolates of Candida spp. and Torulopsis glabrata were used. Turbidimetric adjustment of cell suspe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Saubolle MA,Hoeprich PD

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data on carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria on the African continent are limited. Here, we report the identification of VIM-2-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in Tanzania. Eight out of 90 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from a tertiary care hospital in Dar es Salaam were shown to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moyo S,Haldorsen B,Aboud S,Blomberg B,Maselle SY,Sundsfjord A,Langeland N,Samuelsen Ø

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of antibiotic resistance among Gram-negative bacteria is a serious clinical threat, and infections with these organisms are a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Traditional novel drug development inevitably leads to the emergence of new resistant strains, rendering the new drugs ineffective. Therefore, r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Soren O,Brinch KS,Patel D,Liu Y,Liu A,Coates A,Hu Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatographic fractionation of streptovaricin complex yields two stable components enriched (4- to 16-fold) in activity directed against the polycythemic strain of Friend virus; both components apparently contain no streptovaricins. When compared with their unfractionated parent streptovaricin complex, eight individ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Horoszewicz JS,Rinehart KL Jr,Leong SS,Carter WA

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitazoxanide (NTZ), a drug currently being tested in human clinical trials for efficacy against chronic cryptosporidiosis, was assessed in cell culture and in two animal models. The inhibitory activity of NTZ was compared with that of paromomycin (PRM), a drug that is partially effective against Cryptosporidium parvum...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Theodos CM,Griffiths JK,D'Onfro J,Fairfield A,Tzipori S

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been major interest by the scientific community in antivirulence approaches against bacterial infections. However, partly due to a lack of viable lead compounds, antivirulence therapeutics have yet to reach the clinic. Here we investigate the development of an antivirulence lead targeting quorum sensing sign...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Todd DA,Parlet CP,Crosby HA,Malone CL,Heilmann KP,Horswill AR,Cech NB

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental transfer of the HIV protease inhibitor darunavir was investigated in 5 term human cotyledons perfused with darunavir (1,000 ng/ml) in the maternal to fetal direction. The mean (± the standard deviation [SD]) fetal transfer rate (FTR) (fetal/maternal concentration at steady state from 30 to 90 min) was 15.0%±...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mandelbrot L,Duro D,Belissa E,Peytavin G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica strains with a nonclassical quinolone resistance phenotype were isolated from patients returning from Thailand or Malaysia to Finland. A total of 10 isolates of seven serovars were studied in detail, all of which had reduced susceptibility (MIC > or = 0.125 microg/ml) to ciprofloxacin ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gunell M,Webber MA,Kotilainen P,Lilly AJ,Caddick JM,Jalava J,Huovinen P,Siitonen A,Hakanen AJ,Piddock LJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of ACH-702 and other antimicrobials against 30 Nocardia brasiliensis isolates were tested. The MIC(50) (MIC for 50% of the strains tested) and MIC(90) values of ACH-702 were 0.125 and 0.5 microg/ml. The same values for econazole were 2 and 4 microg/ml. The MIC(50) and MIC(90) values of imipenem...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vera-Cabrera L,Campos-Rivera MP,Escalante-Fuentes WG,Pucci MJ,Ocampo-Candiani J,Welsh O

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tigemonam, a new monobactam with excellent activity against gram-negative bacteria, was evaluated for in vivo efficacy and absorption after oral administration to laboratory animals. Tigemonam is absorbed when administered orally to mice and dogs. In a variety of gram-negative systemic infections in mice, orally admin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clark JM,Olsen SJ,Weinberg DS,Dalvi M,Whitney RR,Bonner DP,Sykes RB

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of gentamicin was compared with its therapeutic efficacy in rabbits with Streptococcus faecalis endocarditis. The test strain was resistant to gentamicin as measured by MICs and MBCs determined in Mueller-Hinton broth alone or in broth supplemented with 50% rabbit serum. Gentamicin also failed to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sullam PM,Täuber MG,Hackbarth CJ,Sande MA

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women in the second half of pregnancy, who were infected with genital mycoplasmas and who gave written informed consent, were randomly assigned to receive capsules of identical appearance containing erythromycin estolate, clindamycin hydrochloride, or a placebo for 6 weeks. Levels of serum glutamic oxalacetic transami...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCormack WM,George H,Donner A,Kodgis LF,Alpert S,Lowe EW,Kass EH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternate therapies are needed for treatment of secondary bacterial pneumonia following influenza. The immunomodulatory peptide P4 has shown promise in mouse models of primary pneumococcal infection. Mice infected with influenza virus and then challenged with Streptococcus pneumoniae were treated with a combination of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weeks JN,Boyd KL,Rajam G,Ades EW,McCullers JA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococci are the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. Increasingly, they resist antibiotic treatment owing to the development of multiple antibiotic resistance mechanisms in most strains. Therefore, the activity and efficacy of recombinant lysostaphin as a drug against this pathogen have been ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hertlein T,Sturm V,Lorenz U,Sumathy K,Jakob P,Ohlsen K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical use of the neuraminidase inhibitor (NAI) oseltamivir is associated with the emergence of drug resistance resulting from subtype-specific neuraminidase (NA) mutations. The influenza A/Texas/12/2007 (H3N2) virus isolated from an oseltamivir-treated immunocompromised patient exhibited reduced susceptibility ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Okomo-Adhiambo M,Demmler-Harrison GJ,Deyde VM,Sheu TG,Xu X,Klimov AI,Gubareva LV

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of clinical isolates of Moraxella catarrhalis produce beta-lactamase. The role of this enzyme in the phenomenon of indirect pathogenicity, in which a true pathogen such as Streptococcus pneumoniae is protected from the action of certain beta-lactam antibiotics, is well recognized. By using a simple contin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Budhani RK,Struthers JK

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of 26 strains of varicella-zoster virus to cytarabine was tested in vitro by measuring reduction in number and size of plaques using human foreskin fibroblast cells. Most strains showed 50% reduction of plaque number by 0.125 mug of cytarabine per ml or less. Cytarabine levels in sera of 12 patients...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zaky DA,Betts RF,Douglas RG Jr,Bengali K,Neil GL

更新日期：1975-03-01 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：:Various fluoroquinolones (norfloxacin, enoxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, and sparfloxacin) induce DnaK and GroEL heat shock proteins in Escherichia coli. The induction is transient, consistent with the kinetics of cellular DNA relaxation. The concentrations of fluoroquinolones required for induction are similar to th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mizushima T,Matsuo M,Sekimizu K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00