Experimental phage therapy in treating Klebsiella pneumoniae-mediated liver abscesses and bacteremia in mice.

abstract：:We studied the DNA sequence variation of van genes of 34 isolates of Enterococcus spp. The isolates containing the vanB gene exhibited between 0 and 41 base pair changes per 801 bp studied when the vanB sequences were compared to that of the reference strain Enterococcus faecalis V583. The isolates carrying the vanC-2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Patel R,Uhl JR,Kohner P,Hopkins MK,Steckelberg JM,Kline B,Cockerill FR 3rd

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin was successfully incorporated into neutral, anionic, and cationic liposomes, and the percentage of gentamicin incorporated was found to be a function of lipid concentration. Gentamicin did not leak out of the liposomes over a 3-week period at 4 degrees C. When liposome-associated gentamicin was administered...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morgan JR,Williams KE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the spacing of their positive charges, ionenes, a class of quaternary ammonium polymers, increased the interferon-inducing activity of poly(inosinic acid).poly(cytidylic acid) in mouse L-929 cells, whereas they did not enhance poly(inosinic acid).poly(cytidylic acid) induced interferon production in prima...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clercq ED,Janik B,Sommer RG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluoroquinolone (FQ) resistance rate of 5.9% is reported in 205 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients presenting to field clinics in Karachi, Pakistan (2006 to 2009). FQ resistance among multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains was 11.1% (5/45), and it was 4.9% (5/103) in M. tuberculosis strains susceptible to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rafiq Y,Jabeen K,Hasan R,Jafri S,Laiq R,Malik F,Mangi R,Channa A,Hasan Z

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report on the anti-influenza virus activity of the mannose-binding agents, Hippeastrum hybrid agglutinin (HHA) and Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA), and the (N-acetylglucosamine)n-specific Urtica dioica agglutinin (UDA). These carbohydrate-binding agents (CBA) strongly inhibited various influenza A(H1N1), A...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vanderlinden E,Van Winkel N,Naesens L,Van Damme EJM,Persoons L,Schols D

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of seven fluoroquinolones against 290 anaerobes were determined by agar dilution. CI-960 and WIN 57273 inhibited greater than 95% of the strains at less than or equal to 2 micrograms/ml. CI-990 required less than or equal to 16 micrograms/ml. Clustering around 2 to 4 micrograms/ml was noted for...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MprF is responsible for the lysinylation of phosphatidylglycerol (PG) to synthesize the positively charged phospholipid (PL) species, lysyl-PG (L-PG). It has been proposed that the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the mprF open reading frame (ORF) are associated with a gain-in-function phenotype in terms ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bayer AS,Mishra NN,Chen L,Kreiswirth BN,Rubio A,Yang SJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven patients with advanced malignancies were given 200 mg of ketoconazole orally every 6 or 12 h. Blood samples were collected during these intervals and after the last dose to determine plasma concentrations and half-lives. The mean plasma concentrations measured after the initial dose were 1.7 +/- 1.1 micro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maksymiuk AW,Levine HB,Bodey GP

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of bacteriophage therapy to treat infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria has now been well established using various animal models. While numerous newly isolated bacteriophages have been claimed to be potential therapeutic candidates on the basis of in vitro observations, the parameters used ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Henry M,Lavigne R,Debarbieux L

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We and others recently identified copper resistance as important for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Here, we introduce a high-throughput screening assay for agents that induce a copper hypersensitivity phenotype in M. tuberculosis and demonstrate that such copper-boosting compounds are effective against repl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Speer A,Shrestha TB,Bossmann SH,Basaraba RJ,Harber GJ,Michalek SM,Niederweis M,Kutsch O,Wolschendorf F

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian serum amyloid A (SAA) is a major acute phase protein that shows a massive increase in plasma concentration during inflammation. In the present study, we demonstrate that the expression of mouse SAA1 in serum was increased when infected with Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen, in a systemic infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gong J,Wu J,Ikeh M,Tao L,Zhang Y,Bing J,Nobile CJ,Huang G

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alphaviruses are arthropod-transmitted RNA viruses that can cause arthralgia, myalgia, and encephalitis in humans. Since the role of cellular kinases in alphavirus replication is unknown, we profiled kinetic changes in host kinase abundance and phosphorylation following chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection of fibroblas...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Broeckel R,Sarkar S,May NA,Totonchy J,Kreklywich CN,Smith P,Graves L,DeFilippis VR,Heise MT,Morrison TE,Moorman N,Streblow DN

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 150,000 small-molecule compounds were tested by a robotic screening assay for their ability to inhibit nucleoside triphosphate hydrolase (NTPase), a novel enzyme of the tachyzoite form of Toxoplasma gondii. Five unrelated species of compounds were found to inhibit the activities of both NTPase isoforms (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Asai T,Takeuchi T,Diffenderfer J,Sibley LD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PSI-352938 is a novel cyclic phosphate prodrug of β-D-2'-deoxy-2'-α-fluoro-2'-β-C-methylguanosine 5'-monophosphate that has potent activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in vitro. The studies described here characterize the in vitro anti-HCV activity of PSI-352938, alone and in combination with other inhibitors of H...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lam AM,Espiritu C,Murakami E,Zennou V,Bansal S,Micolochick Steuer HM,Niu C,Keilman M,Bao H,Bourne N,Veselenak RL,Reddy PG,Chang W,Du J,Nagarathnam D,Sofia MJ,Otto MJ,Furman PA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant increases in the MIC(90)s of linezolid in multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were seen between the baseline period of 2001 to 2003 (0.5 microg/ml) and 2004 (2 microg/ml). The MICs were 4 microg/ml in three strains. Both fluoroquinolones (except levofloxacin) and kanamycin were found to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Huang TS,Liu YC,Sy CL,Chen YS,Tu HZ,Chen BC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the in vitro activities of anidulafungin, micafungin, and caspofungin against Candida krusei by determining MIC and minimum fungicidal concentration (MFC) measurements and by the time-kill method. The geometric mean (GM)-MIC/GM-MFC values were 0.1/0.34, 0.25/0.44, and 1/2.29, respectively. The mean times ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cantón E,Pemán J,Valentín A,Espinel-Ingroff A,Gobernado M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of calcium-deficient apatite loaded with different concentrations (25, 100, and 500 microg/mg) of vancomycin as a filling biomaterial were evaluated in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rabbit acute osteomyelitis model. Bacterial counts in bone, bone marrow, and joint fl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Amador G,Gautier H,Le Mabecque V,Miegeville AF,Potel G,Bouler JM,Weiss P,Caillon J,Jacqueline C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to drugs such as chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is a major problem in malaria control. Artemisinin (ART) derivatives, particularly in combination with other drugs, are thus increasingly used to treat malaria, reducing the probability that parasites resistant to the compon...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Afonso A,Hunt P,Cheesman S,Alves AC,Cunha CV,do Rosário V,Cravo P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-nucleotide polymorphism-based cluster grouping (SCG) classification system for Mycobacterium tuberculosis was used to examine antibiotic resistance type and resistance mutations in relationship to specific evolutionary lineages. Drug resistance and resistance mutations were seen across all SCGs. SCG-2 had hig...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brimacombe M,Hazbon M,Motiwala AS,Alland D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This phase 1, open-label, single-dose, parallel-group study evaluated the pharmacokinetics (PK) of isavuconazole after a single oral dose of the prodrug isavuconazonium sulfate in healthy nonelderly (age, 18 to 45 years) and elderly (age, ≥65 years) males and females. Overall, 48 subjects were enrolled in the study (n...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Desai AV,Han D,Kowalski DL,Lademacher C,Pearlman H,Yamazaki T

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure-activity relations of myxinidin, a peptide derived from epidermal mucus of hagfish, Myxine glutinosa L., were investigated. Analysis of key residues allowed us to design new peptides with increased efficiency. Antimicrobial activity of native and modified peptides demonstrated the key role of uncharged r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cantisani M,Leone M,Mignogna E,Kampanaraki K,Falanga A,Morelli G,Galdiero M,Galdiero S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds that interact with DNA or RNA generally act as inhibitors of enzymes that unwind DNA or RNA. In the present study we describe the synthesis and properties of some nucleoside analogues that interact with double-stranded DNA but that, in contrast, facilitate the unwinding reaction mediated by West Nile (WN) vi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Borowski P,Lang M,Haag A,Schmitz H,Choe J,Chen HM,Hosmane RS

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of the effect of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on apoptosis pathway genes comprising 16 cases (HIV infected with mitochondrial toxicity) and 16 controls (HIV uninfected) was conducted. A total of 26 of 84 genes of the apoptosis pathway were differentially expressed. Two of the upregulated genes, DF...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Foli Y,Ghebremichael M,Li M,Paintsil E

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To study whether the capability of horizontal DNA transfer is associated with metronidazole resistance in Helicobacter pylori, a total of 81 clinical isolates were tested for MICs of metronidazole (MTZ). The MIC assays were performed by using the E-test and reconfirmed by the agar dilution method. Natural competence a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yeh YC,Chang KC,Yang JC,Fang CT,Wang JT

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of combinations of antimicrobials that together achieve synergistic activities against targeted microorganisms is one potential strategy for overcoming bacterial resistance. As the incidence of infections caused by multidrug-resistant staphylococci and enterococci increases, the importance of devising additional s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Allen GP,Cha R,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The residual antibiotic concentration of vancomycin (2 mg/ml)- or ceftazidime (2 mg/ml)-heparin solutions instilled in ports in pediatric hematology-oncology patients 1 to 34 days earlier was measured. Antibiotic concentrations of > or = 100 microg of either antibiotic per ml persisted for at least 21 days. For treatm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Haimi-Cohen Y,Husain N,Meenan J,Karayalcin G,Lehrer M,Rubin LG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to investigate raltegravir transport across several blood-tissue barrier models and the potential interactions with drug efflux transporters. Raltegravir uptake, accumulation, and permeability were evaluated in vitro in (i) P-glycoprotein (P-gp), breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hoque MT,Kis O,De Rosa MF,Bendayan R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs) play important roles in host immune defenses. Plectasin is a defensin-like CAP isolated from the saprophytic fungus Pseudoplectania nigrella. NZ2114 is a novel variant of plectasin with potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria. In this study, we investigated (i) the in vivo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xiong YQ,Hady WA,Deslandes A,Rey A,Fraisse L,Kristensen HH,Yeaman MR,Bayer AS

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this open-label, fixed-sequence study was to investigate the potential of the botanical supplement Echinacea purpurea to interact with etravirine, a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor of HIV. Fifteen HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy with etravirine (400 mg once daily) for at...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moltó J,Valle M,Miranda C,Cedeño S,Negredo E,Clotet B

更新日期：2012-10-01 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