Dextromethorphan efficiently increases bactericidal activity, attenuates inflammatory responses, and prevents group a streptococcal sepsis.

abstract：:Himastatin, a cyclohexadepsipeptide antibiotic, had in vivo antitumor activity against localized P388 leukemia and B16 melanoma but had no distal site antitumor activity. An in vitro Bacillus subtilis well-agar diffusion assay was employed to test the hypothesis that himastatin was enzymatically inactivated. The activ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mamber SW,Brookshire KW,Dean BJ,Firestone RA,Leet JE,Matson JA,Forenza S

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the in vivo effects of rufloxacin and ciprofloxacin on T-cell subsets and tumor necrosis factor production in mice infected with Bacteroides fragilis. These quinolones did not alter the helper/suppressor ratio but did modulate the kinetics of tumor necrosis factor production in infected animals. This r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gollapudi SV,Chuah SK,Harvey T,Thadepalli HD,Thadepalli H

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefodizime, an iminomethoxy aminothiazolyl cephalosporin similar to moxalactam and ceftazidime, was less active (minimal inhibitory concentration, 1.6 to 12 micrograms) than cefazolin or cefotaxime against Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. It inhibited Haemophilus and Neisseria spp. at less than 0....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Scully BE,Jules K,Neu HC

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased expression of chromosomal genes for resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND)-type efflux systems plays a major role in the multidrug resistance (MDR) of Acinetobacter baumannii. However, the relative contributions of the three most prevalent pumps, AdeABC, AdeFGH, and AdeIJK, have not been evaluated in clin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoon EJ,Courvalin P,Grillot-Courvalin C

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic susceptibilities of 62 strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and 37 strains of S. enterica serovar Paratyphi A were investigated with 18 antibiotics. Eighteen S. enterica serovar Typhi isolates and five S. enterica serovar Paratyphi A isolates were resistant to one or more antimicrobial agents, a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hirose K,Tamura K,Sagara H,Watanabe H

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of colistin resistance (Col(r)) in Acinetobacter baumannii was studied by selecting in vitro Col(r) derivatives of the multidrug-resistant A. baumannii isolate AB0057 and the drug-susceptible strain ATCC 17978, using escalating concentrations of colistin in liquid culture. DNA sequencing identified mutat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adams MD,Nickel GC,Bajaksouzian S,Lavender H,Murthy AR,Jacobs MR,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemicholinium 3, decamethonium, and decyltrimethylammonium previously have been demonstrated to be efficient inhibitors, with 50% inhibitory concentrations of 4 X 10(-6), 10(-6), and 7 X 10(-7) M, respectively. We show that lengthening of the alkyl chain of decyltrimethylammonium by successive additions of two carbon ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ancelin ML,Vial HJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 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：:The pharmacokinetics of gentamicin C(1), C(2), and C(1a) were studied in six beagles after administration of gentamicin at 4 mg/kg of body weight as a single intravenous bolus dose. Plasma concentrations of the gentamicin components were analyzed with a novel high-performance liquid chromatography method capable of id...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Isoherranen N,Lavy E,Soback S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacodynamic properties of levofloxacin (an optically active isomer of ofloxacin), ofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin, alone and in combination with rifampin, were evaluated over 24 to 48 h against clinical isolates of methicillin-susceptible and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA 1199 and MRSA 494, respectively)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kang SL,Rybak MJ,McGrath BJ,Kaatz GW,Seo SM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) were selected in cell culture in the continuous presence of 10 microM (each) 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) and 2',3'-dideoxyinosine (ddI). These mutants (AIR-1 and AIR-3) displayed a 13-fold resistance to AZT but had less than a 2-fold decrease in susceptibility to ddI...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gobert JM,Remington KM,Zhu YQ,North TW

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the efficacy of new experimental antifungal drugs, which represent molecular modifications of present active agents, in a murine model of blastomycosis. Ketoconazole, previously the best azole drug studied and which is protective when administered orally, was superior to a new oral imidazole, Bay l 9139, an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lefler E,Brummer E,Perlman AM,Stevens DA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-lactam-sensitive strain (C152) of Shigella dysenteriae showed two major outer membrane proteins (OMPs) with M(r)s of 43,000 and 38,000, while the clinical isolate M2 lacked the 43,000-Mr OMP, which acted as a channel for beta-lactam antibiotics. Permeability of beta-lactams across the outer membrane (OM) of M2 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kar AK,Ghosh AS,Chauhan K,Ahamed J,Basu J,Chakrabarti P,Kundu M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spider venoms are vast natural pharmacopoeias selected by evolution. The venom of the ant spider Lachesana tarabaevi contains a wide variety of antimicrobial peptides. We tested six of them (latarcins 1, 2a, 3a, 4b, 5, and cytoinsectotoxin 1a) for their ability to suppress Chlamydia trachomatis infection. HEK293 cells...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lazarev VN,Polina NF,Shkarupeta MM,Kostrjukova ES,Vassilevski AA,Kozlov SA,Grishin EV,Govorun VM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the cerebrospinal fluid penetration of daptomycin after the addition of dexamethasone and its bactericidal efficacy with and without ceftriaxone in an experimental rabbit model of pneumococcal meningitis. The combination of daptomycin with ceftriaxone was the most efficacious regimen for pneumococcal menin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Egermann U,Stanga Z,Ramin A,Acosta F,Stucki A,Gerber P,Cottagnoud M,Cottagnoud P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GS-9160 is a novel and potent inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) integrase (IN) that specifically targets the process of strand transfer. It is an authentic inhibitor of HIV-1 integration, since treatment of infected cells results in an elevation of two-long terminal repeat circles and a decrease...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones GS,Yu F,Zeynalzadegan A,Hesselgesser J,Chen X,Chen J,Jin H,Kim CU,Wright M,Geleziunas R,Tsiang M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of >30 effective drugs for managing HIV-1 infection, no current therapy is curative, and long-term management is challenging owing to the emergence and spread of drug-resistant mutants. Identification of drugs against novel HIV-1 targets would expand the current treatment options and help to c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Halambage UD,Wong JP,Melancon BJ,Lindsley CW,Aiken C

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infections caused by the Mycobacterium avium-M. intracellulare complex (MAC) are the most frequent opportunistic bacterial infections in patients with AIDS. MAC isolates are resistant to many of the standard antituberculous drugs. Failure to obtain significant activities of certain drugs is due to difficu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mehta RT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Ambler class A β-lactamase gene, bla(CIA-1), was cloned from the reference strain Chryseobacterium indologenes ATCC 29897 and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21. The bla(CIA-1) gene encodes a novel extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) that shared 68% and 60% identities with the CGA-1 and CME-1 β-lactamases, respect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matsumoto T,Nagata M,Ishimine N,Kawasaki K,Yamauchi K,Hidaka E,Kasuga E,Horiuchi K,Oana K,Kawakami Y,Honda T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PA-824 is a novel antibacterial agent that has shown in vitro activity against both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The compound's MIC is between 0.015 and 0.25 microg/ml for drug-sensitive strains and between 0.03 and 0.53 microg/ml for drug-resistant strains. In addition, it is active a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ginsberg AM,Laurenzi MW,Rouse DJ,Whitney KD,Spigelman MK

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the influence of age on the intracortical accumulation kinetics of gentamicin in conscious male rats by using a short-term infusion model. Animals were infused with gentamicin over a 6-h period and achieved individual steady-state levels in serum ranging from 0.5 to 12 micrograms/ml. Young rats were ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beauchamp D,Gourde P,Bergeron MG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered 2 g of ceftazidime intravenously every 8 h to cancer patients for the empiric therapy of febrile episodes. Ceftazidime was administered as monotherapy for patients with granulocyte counts in excess of 1,000/microliter. Febrile, neutropenic patients were randomized to also receive either piperacillin or...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Drusano GL,Joshi J,Forrest A,Ruxer R,Standiford H,Leslie J,Wade J,Schimpff S

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftriaxone in short courses has emerged as an effective alternative to chloramphenicol for the treatment of typhoid fever. To study the pharmacokinetics of ceftriaxone in acute typhoid fever, 10 febrile Nepalese adolescents and young adults with blood culture-positive illness were treated with 3 g of ceftriaxone (int...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Acharya G,Crevoisier C,Butler T,Ho M,Tiwari M,Stoeckel K,Bradley CA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and bacteriological effect of ceftazidime were evaluated in rabbits experimentally infected with Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae type b, and Escherichia coli K1. The mean penetration of ceftazidime into cerebrospinal fluid after single-dose or constant-infusion administration rang...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sakata Y,Boccazzi A,McCracken GH Jr

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating data have brought the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors (NNRTIs) into the forefront of antiretroviral therapy. Among the emerging compounds in this class, a particularly attractive one is efavirenz (Sustiva), recently approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maga G,Ubiali D,Salvetti R,Pregnolato M,Spadari S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate biochemical, genetic, and epidemiological aspects of resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics among 650 consecutive isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Tex. In 364 strains, minimal inhibitory concentrations were 25 mug/ml or greater for g...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Holmes RK,Minshew BH,Gould IK,Sanford JP

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiresistant enterococci were tested for susceptibility to trimethoprim (TMP). Although most enterococci are inhibited by less than or equal to 1.0 microgram/ml, the MICs for 7 of 29 selected multiresistant isolates were greater than or equal to 8 micrograms/ml, including for two beta-lactamase positive (Bla+) strai...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Frosolono M,Hodel-Christian SL,Murray BE

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimalarial 9-anilinoacridines are potent inhibitors of parasite DNA topoisomerase II both in vitro and in situ. 3,6-diamino substitution on the acridine ring greatly improves parasiticidal activity against Plasmodium falciparum by targeting DNA topoisomerase II. A series of 9-anilinoacridines were investigated for t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Auparakkitanon S,Noonpakdee W,Ralph RK,Denny WA,Wilairat P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a first-line tuberculosis drug that inhibits the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via an as yet undefined mechanism. An M. tuberculosis laboratory strain that was auxotrophic for pantothenate was found to be insensitive to PZA and to the active form, pyrazinoic acid (POA). To determine whethe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dillon NA,Peterson ND,Rosen BC,Baughn AD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphonoformate (PF) at a concentration of 5 to 10 mug/ml inhibited the growth of type 1 strains of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in tissue culture, whereas 20 to 30 mug/ml was required for inhibition of type 2 strains and about 50 mug/ml was required for murine cytomegalovirus. In mice inoculated intraperitoneally or i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kern ER,Glasgow LA,Overall JC Jr,Reno JM,Boezi JA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00