Clinical evaluation of a dried blood spot assay for atazanavir.

abstract：:Lung infections caused by Mycobacterium abscessus are emerging as a global threat to individuals with cystic fibrosis and to other patient groups. Recent evidence for human-to-human transmission worsens the situation. M. abscessus is an intrinsically multidrug-resistant pathogen showing resistance to even standard ant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aziz DB,Low JL,Wu ML,Gengenbacher M,Teo JWP,Dartois V,Dick T

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Tiacumicins B and C are members of a novel group of 18-membered macrolide antibiotics with in vitro activity against Clostridium difficile. The MICs against 15 strains of C. difficile were 0.12 to 0.25 microgram/ml for tiacumicin B, 0.25 to 1 microgram/ml for tiacumicin C, and 0.5 to 1 microgram/ml for vancomycin. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swanson RN,Hardy DJ,Shipkowitz NL,Hanson CW,Ramer NC,Fernandes PB,Clement JJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:Suramin is 100 years old and is still being used to treat the first stage of acute human sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma bruceirhodesiense Suramin is a multifunctional molecule with a wide array of potential applications, from parasitic and viral diseases to cancer, snakebite, and autism. Suramin is also an e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wiedemar N,Hauser DA,Mäser P

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sordarin and its derivatives are antifungal compounds of potential clinical interest. Despite the highly conserved nature of the fungal and mammalian protein synthesis machineries, sordarin is a selective inhibitor of protein synthesis in fungal organisms. In cells sensitive to sordarin, its mode of action is through ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Botet J,Rodríguez-Mateos M,Ballesta JP,Revuelta JL,Remacha M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of NXL103 against 108 strains of Haemophilus influenzae was tested using Haemophilus test media (HTM) obtained from various sources. With the exception of those obtained with stored HTM, MICs did not differ significantly, with MIC(50) and MIC(90) values of 0.5 and 0.5 to 1 microg/ml, respectively, in each...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pankuch GA,Hoellman D,Bryskier A,Lowther J,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefmenoxime, an investigational semisynthetic cephalosporin, was evaluated in 18 pediatric patients with a variety of infections. There were seven patients with urinary tract infections, two with wound infections, two with osteomyelitis, two with abscess infections, one with cervical adenitis, one with hidradenitis, o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tansino GF,Hammerschlag MR,Congeni BL,Cox PA,Doraiswamy B,duBouchet L

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolactin A (MA) and 7-O-succinyl macrolactin A (SMA), polyene macrolides containing a 24-membered lactone ring, show antibiotic effects superior to those of teicoplanin against vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MA and SMA are currently being evaluated as antitumor age...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bae SH,Kwon MJ,Park JB,Kim D,Kim DH,Kang JS,Kim CG,Oh E,Bae SK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antibiotics have disulfiram-like effects; we evaluated disulfiram for its antibiotic-like effects. Disulfiram inhibited the in vitro growth of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, with an MIC of 1.33 micrograms/ml, but was not effective against members of the family Enterobacteriaceae or Pseudomonas sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Phillips M,Malloy G,Nedunchezian D,Lukrec A,Howard RG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferability of drug resistance in strains of Bordetella bronchiseptica isolated from pigs was examined. These strains were resistant to sulfadimethoxine (SA, more than 1,600 mug/ml), streptomycin (SM, more than 800 mug/ml), and aminobenzyl penicillin (APC, 200 mug/ml). All of them could transfer their drug resista...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Terakado N,Azechi H,Ninomiya K,Shimizu T

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 98 clinical methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates of known beta-lactamase (Bla) type, we found a pronounced inoculum effect for cephalexin (mostly Bla type A and C strains), a mild inoculum effect for cephalothin (especially types B and C), and no inoculum effects for ceftriaxone and cefuroxime....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nannini EC,Stryjewski ME,Singh KV,Rude TH,Corey GR,Fowler VG Jr,Murray BE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PD 131628 is a new aminopyrrolidine-substituted fluorocyclopropyl naphthyridine quinolone which possesses high in vitro activity against a wide spectrum of bacterial species. The MICs for greater than or equal to 90% of strains were 0.125 to 0.25 microgram/ml for staphylococci, Streptococcus pyogenes, and S. pneumonia...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cohen MA,Huband MD,Mailloux GB,Yoder SL,Roland GE,Domagala JM,Heifetz CL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BackgroundChagas disease reactivation in HIV positive people is an opportunistic infection with 79-100% mortality. It commonly involves the central nervous system (CNS). Early treatment with trypanocidal drugs such as benznidazole (BNZ) is crucial for this severe manifestation of Trypanosoma cruzi infection. However, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fernández ML,Marson ME,Mastrantonio GE,Corti MA,Fleitas U,Lloveras SC,Lista N,Priarone MM,Domínguez C,Garcia-Bournissen F

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An important determinant of nephrotoxicity, which is the major complication of long-term amphotericin B treatment, is dysfunction of distal tubular epithelial cells. The underlying cause for this rather selective damage to the cells is unknown. In the present investigation, it was shown that kidney epithelial cells we...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walev I,Bhakdi S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyclovir reduced mortality and organ virus titers in mice inoculated intraperitoneally with 10 50% lethal doses of mouse cytomegalovirus. This susceptibility to acyclovir of a herpesvirus which lacks thymidine kinase is surprising. Alternative phosphorylating enzymes may account for this susceptibility. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wingard JR,Bender WJ,Saral R,Burns WH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, randomized, and double-blind study comparing teicoplanin with vancomycin in the initial management of febrile neutropenic patients was conducted. Teicoplanin was administered at 6 mg per kg of body weight every 24 h (q24h) intravenously (i.v.) after initial loading at 6 mg/kg q12h for three doses. Vanco...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kureishi A,Jewesson PJ,Rubinger M,Cole CD,Reece DE,Phillips GL,Smith JA,Chow AW

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent escalation of occurrences of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been recognized globally and threatens to erode the widespread clinical utility of the carbapenem class of compounds for this prevalent health care-associated pathogen. Here, we compared the in vitro inhibitory activity of ceftazid...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grupper M,Sutherland C,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome is an undesirable outcome of glucocorticoids treatment. It can be increased by pharmacologic interactions. Glucocorticoid therapy, given in association with ritonavir, and some azole treatments are causes of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome. We present a patient with common-variable immunode...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pilmis B,Coignard-Biehler H,Jullien V,Hermine O,Touraine P,Lecuit M,Lortholary O

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium leprae synthesizes large quantities of a specific phthiocerol-containing phenolic glycolipid in vivo. We have shown earlier that viable M. leprae readily incorporates radiolabeled palmitic acid into phenolic glycolipid I when residing in cultured macrophages in vitro and that this process is inhibited by...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ramasesh N,Krahenbuhl JL,Hastings RC

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA is catalyzed by the virally encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase NS5B. It is believed that the viral polymerase utilizes a de novo or primer-independent mechanism for initiation of RNA synthesis. Our previous work has shown that dinucleotides were efficient initiation molecul...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhong W,An H,Barawkar D,Hong Z

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosmarinic acid (RA) reduced the mortality of mice infected with Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). Significant decreases in viral loads (P < 0.001) and proinflammatory cytokine levels (P < 0.001) were observed in JEV-infected animals treated with RA compared to levels in infected mice without treatment, at 8 to 9 day...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swarup V,Ghosh J,Ghosh S,Saxena A,Basu A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluoroquinolone antimicrobial drug danofloxacin was administered to sheep intravenously (i.v.) and intramuscularly (i.m.) at a dose of 1.25 mg/kg of body weight in a two-period crossover study. The pharmacokinetic properties of danofloxacin in serum, inflamed tissue cage fluid (exudate), and noninflamed tissue cag...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aliabadi FS,Landoni MF,Lees P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-newborn rhesus macaque model of AIDS can be used to study directly the virulence of viral mutants which are resistant to antiviral drugs. A viral mutant called SIVmac79A6.1, isolated from an SIV-infected macaque after prolonged zidovudine treatment, was found to have a double-ba...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Rompay KK,Greenier JL,Marthas ML,Otsyula MG,Tarara RP,Miller CJ,Pedersen NC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal gyrA gene sequence data, MICs, and mouse infection were used to define the ciprofloxacin breakpoint for Neisseria meningitidis. Residue T91 or D95 of GyrA was altered in all meningococcal isolates with MICs of ≥ 0.064 μg/ml but not among isolates with MICs of ≤ 0.032 μg/ml. Experimental infection of cipr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hong E,Thulin Hedberg S,Abad R,Fazio C,Enríquez R,Deghmane AE,Jolley KA,Stefanelli P,Unemo M,Vazquez JA,Veyrier FJ,Taha MK

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Escherichia coli containing TEM-1 and CTX-M-1 was tested in an in vitro pharmacokinetic model against ceftazidime with and without AM-112, a serine beta-lactamase inhibitor. Ceftazidime alone was less effective than ceftazidime plus AM-112, and a single dose was more effective than three fractionated doses...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bowker KE,Noel AR,Walsh TR,Rogers CA,MacGowan AP

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTX-M-1-producing Escherichia coli were isolated from 56 pigs, three farm personnel, two manure samples, and two air samples from two Danish pig farms where an association between prophylactic ceftiofur use and the occurrence of cephalosporin resistance was previously demonstrated. Human, animal, and environmental str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moodley A,Guardabassi L

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The judicious use of perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis reduces the infectious complications of surgery. However, increased bacterial resistance within hospitals may make antibiotic prophylaxis less effective in the future and alternative strategies are needed. New immunomodulatory agents might prevent wound infecti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kernodle DS,Gates H,Kaiser AB

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three healthy male and female subjects received single 100-mg oral doses of rimantadine hydrochloride on two occasions in an open-label, sequential design with a 6-day washout between doses. The first dose of rimantadine was administered alone, and the second dose was administered concomitantly with cimetidine ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Holazo AA,Choma N,Brown SY,Lee LF,Wills RJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinocandins are a preferred therapy for invasive candidiasis due to their potency and broad spectrum. Resistance, especially in Candida glabrata, is an emerging threat to their use. Pharmacodynamic (PD) studies examining reduced susceptibility secondary to fks mutations in C. glabrata are lacking. The current study ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lepak A,Castanheira M,Diekema D,Pfaller M,Andes D

更新日期：2012-11-01 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