Antifungal therapy in a murine model of disseminated infection by Cryptococcus gattii.

abstract：:The objective of the study was to measure antiretroviral exposures in four physiological compartments during pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum. This prospective, open-label, longitudinal study collected paired blood plasma (BP) and genital tract (GT) aspirates antepartum, at delivery, and up to 12 weeks postpartum. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yeh RF,Rezk NL,Kashuba AD,Dumond JB,Tappouni HL,Tien HC,Chen YC,Vourvahis M,Horton AL,Fiscus SA,Patterson KB

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial proteins and peptides (AMPs) are essential effectors of innate immunity, acting as a first line of defense against bacterial infections. Many AMPs exhibit high affinity for cell wall structures such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a potent endotoxin able to induce sepsis. Hence, understanding how AMPs can i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pulido D,Moussaoui M,Andreu D,Nogués MV,Torrent M,Boix E

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penciclovir (PCV) and acyclovir are acyclic guanine analogs which inhibit herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA polymerase. Their 50% infective doses were 0.5 to 0.8 microgram/ml for clinical isolates of HSV-1 and 1.3 to 2.2 micrograms/ml for HSV-2. Furthermore, HSV-infected cultures receiving 2-h pulses of PCV had 2- to 50-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weinberg A,Bate BJ,Masters HB,Schneider SA,Clark JC,Wren CG,Allaman JA,Levin MJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to metronidazole, clarithromycin, and amoxicillin (amoxicilline) was found in 82, 3.8, and 1.9% of 106 Helicobacter pylori isolates, respectively. No tetracycline-resistant isolates were found. In all of the clarithromycin-resistant isolates, only one point mutation was present, either A2143G or A2142G. Our...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Alvarez A,Moncayo JI,Santacruz JJ,Santacoloma M,Corredor LF,Reinosa E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of quaternary ammonium compounds that are esters of betaine and fatty alcohols with hydrocarbon chain lengths of 10 to 18 carbon atoms were tested with respect to antimicrobial activities and rates of hydrolysis. When the tetradecyl derivative was tested against some selected microorganisms, the killing effec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lindstedt M,Allenmark S,Thompson RA,Edebo L

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and therapeutic efficacy of gentamicin were investigated in an experimental pleural empyema rabbit model. Pleural effusion was induced by the intrapleural administration of turpentine, and empyema was induced by direct inoculation of the effusion with Klebsiella pneumoniae. Pleural empyema compare...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shohet I,Yellin A,Meyerovitch J,Rubinstein E

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD), caused by enterovirus, is a threat to public health worldwide. To date, enterovirus 71 (EV71) has been one of the major causative agents of HFMD in the Pacific-Asia region, and outbreaks with EV71 cause millions of infections. However, no drug is currently available for clinical the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang Y,Cao L,Zhai Y,Yin Z,Sun Y,Shang L

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial metabolism studies of the antimalarial drug primaquine, using Streptomyces roseochromogenus (ATCC 13400) have produced an N-acetylated metabolite and a methylene-linked dimeric product, both of which have been previously reported, and a novel sulfur-containing microbial metabolite. The structure of the metab...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hufford CD,Baker JK,McChesney JD,Clark AM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic wound infections are associated with biofilm formation, which in turn has been correlated with drug resistance. However, the mechanism by which bacteria form biofilms in clinical environments is not clearly understood. This study was designed to investigate the biofilm formation potency of Acinetobacter bauman...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： He X,Lu F,Yuan F,Jiang D,Zhao P,Zhu J,Cheng H,Cao J,Lu G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major cause of human disease, produces a 17-mer autoinducer peptide pheromone (competence-stimulating peptide [CSP]) for the control of competence for genetic transformation. Due to previous work linking CSP to stress phenotypes, we set up an in vivo sepsis model to assay its effect on viru...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Oggioni MR,Iannelli F,Ricci S,Chiavolini D,Parigi R,Trappetti C,Claverys JP,Pozzi G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates of the same strain, identified in Poland, produced either TEM-47 or TEM-68, which differed by the Arg275Leu substitution. They harbored a few virulence factors, including an iron-chelating factor and capsule overproduction, suggesting that these factors were sufficient to enhance the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robin F,Hennequin C,Gniadkowski M,Beyrouthy R,Empel J,Gibold L,Bonnet R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activities of amphotericin B and two triazoles, Sch 39304 and fluconazole, were tested against Histoplasma capsulatum. In this study Sch 39304 compared favorably with amphotericin B in treating histoplasmosis in normal and leukopenic mice, whereas fluconazole was much less active. The differences in the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kobayashi GS,Travis SJ,Rinaldi MG,Medoff G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial efflux system encoded by the operon mef(E)-mel on the mobile genetic element MEGA in Streptococcus pneumoniae and other Gram-positive bacteria is inducible by macrolide antibiotics and antimicrobial peptides. Induction may affect the clinical response to the use of macrolides. We developed mef(E) rep...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chancey ST,Zhou X,Zähner D,Stephens DS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing nontuberculous Mycobacterium species belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). It has been identified globally as the cause of a large outbreak of cardiovascular infections following open heart surgery, but it can also cause respiratory infections in individuals with ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mok S,Hannan MM,Nölke L,Stapleton P,O'Sullivan N,Murphy P,McLaughlin AM,McNamara E,Fitzgibbon MM,Rogers TR

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel stilbene glycoside [piceid-(1-->6)-beta-d-glucopyranoside; PBG] from Parthenocissus tricuspidata was tested in vivo against Plasmodium berghei. PBG exhibited significant blood schizontocidal activity in a 4-day early infection, a repository evaluation, and an established infection, with a significant mean surv...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Park WH,Lee SJ,Moon HI

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:By cloning studies and complementation experiments, the sulfonamide resistance gene of a serogroup B and serotype 15 (B:15) strain of Neisseria meningitidis was localized to a 1.2-kb chromosomal SspI fragment expressing a drug-resistant dihydropteroate synthase. The fragment hybridized to DNA from both resistant and s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kristiansen BE,Rådström P,Jenkins A,Ask E,Facinelli B,Sköld O

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous bacterial pathogens, particularly those that colonize fast-flow areas in the bladder and gastrointestinal tract, require motility to establish infection and spread beyond the initially colonized tissue. Vibrio cholerae strains of serogroups O1 and O139, the causative agents of the diarrheal illness cholera, e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rasmussen L,White EL,Pathak A,Ayala JC,Wang H,Wu JH,Benitez JA,Silva AJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural analysis of two new beta-lactam antibiotics, A16884A and A16886B, indicated that they, like cephalosporin C, were composed of modified valine and cysteine residues, and alpha-aminoadipic acid. However, acid hydrolysis of A16886B and A16884A produced three times as much glycine as did hydrolysis of cephalosp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brannon DR,Mabe JA,Ellis R,Whitney JG,Nagarajan R

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2',3'-Dideoxyadenosine (DDA) was shown not only to possess antibacterial activity in vitro against a variety of Enterobacteriaceae, but also to be effective in vivo, DDA was active in experimental mouse infections by the oral route against 5 Salmonella strains, 2 of 3 Arizona strains, 5 of 7 Citrobacter strains, 3 of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beskid G,Eskin B,Cleeland R,Siebelist J,Cappetta A,Hill AD,Geiger RH

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resistome of P. aeruginosa for three β-lactam antibiotics, namely, ceftazidime, imipenem, and meropenem, was deciphered by screening a comprehensive PA14 mutant library for mutants with increased or reduced susceptibility to these antimicrobials. Confirmation of the phenotypes of all selected mutants was performed...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Alvarez-Ortega C,Wiegand I,Olivares J,Hancock RE,Martínez JL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both recombinant alpha A interferon and azidothymidine inhibit the replication of human immunodeficiency virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Combinations of recombinant alpha A interferon and azidothymidine at concentrations that are easily achievable in patients synergistically inhibit human immunodeficiency...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hartshorn KL,Vogt MW,Chou TC,Blumberg RS,Byington R,Schooley RT,Hirsch MS

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose clindamycin (CLDM) and benzylpenicillin (PCG) are the recommended chemotherapeutic remedies for toxic shock-like syndrome caused by group A streptococci. One reason for this is that it has been shown that CLDM suppresses the expression of some exoproteins, e.g., SpeB, SpeA, and streptolysin O (Slo). We analy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tanaka M,Hasegawa T,Okamoto A,Torii K,Ohta M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During investigation of susceptibility testing methods for polymyxins, 24 multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were observed to have a distinct, reproducible phenotype in which skipped wells were observed during broth microdilution testing for polymyxin B. Possible mechanisms underlying this...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schurek KN,Sampaio JL,Kiffer CR,Sinto S,Mendes CM,Hancock RE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using J774 macrophages, the intracellular activities of gentamicin, azithromycin, telithromycin, ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and oritavancin (LY333328) against Staphylococcus aureus (strain ATCC 25923) have been quantitatively assessed in a 24-h model. S. aureus was positively localized in phagolysosomes by confocal ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seral C,Van Bambeke F,Tulkens PM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of pneumococci resistant to penicillin and other agents prompted us to evaluate intravenous vancomycin for the therapy of pneumococcal meningitis, which has an overall mortality of 30%. Eleven consecutive adult patients with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-culture-proven pneumococcal meningitis and positive in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Viladrich PF,Gudiol F,Liñares J,Pallarés R,Sabaté I,Rufí G,Ariza J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-nucleoside analogs are a new class of antiviral and anticancer agents, several of which are currently used in the clinic. The phosphorylation of these agents to the triphosphate form is thought to be important for exertion of their pharmacological activities. 1-(2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-beta-L-arabinofuranosyl)-5-methylur...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hu R,Li L,Degrève B,Dutschman GE,Lam W,Cheng YC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of voriconazole on the blood tacrolimus concentration in a liver transplant recipient and to examine the interaction between voriconazole and tacrolimus by using human liver microsomes. Two subjects were enrolled in the clinical study: one received voriconazole, and t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Venkataramanan R,Zang S,Gayowski T,Singh N

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The VanR-VanS two-component system is responsible for inducing resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics in various bacteria. We have performed a comparative study of the VanR-VanS systems from two streptomyces strains, Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces toyocaensis, to characterize how the two proteins cooperate t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Novotna GB,Kwun MJ,Hong HJ

更新日期：2015-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibility of 406 clinical isolates to BMY-28142, a new semisynthetic cephem, was evaluated and compared with cefpimizole, HR 810, ceftazidime, cefotaxime, moxalactam, and cefoperazone in a broth microdilution assay. On a weight basis, the activity of BMY-28142 against Escherichia coli, Proteus specie...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsuji A,Maniatis A,Bertram MA,Young LS

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00