Nonradioactive DNA probe for detection of gene for methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is a life-threatening infection in lung transplant recipients; however, no studies of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD) of echinocandins in transplanted lungs have been reported. We conducted a single-dose prospective study of the intrapulmonary and plasma PKPD of 150 mg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walsh TJ,Goutelle S,Jelliffe RW,Golden JA,Little EA,DeVoe C,Mickiene D,Hayes M,Conte JE Jr

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage therapy of bacterial infections has received renewed attention owing to the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. A side effect of many antibiotics as well as of phage therapy with lytic phage is the release of cell wall components, e.g., endotoxins of gram-negative bacteria, which med...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hagens S,Habel A,von Ahsen U,von Gabain A,Bläsi U

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds in a series of cholic acid derivatives, designed to mimic the activities of polymyxin B and its derivatives, act as both potent antibiotics and effective permeabilizers of the outer membranes of gram-negative bacteria. Some of these compounds rival polymyxin B in antibacterial activity against gram-negative ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li C,Lewis MR,Gilbert AB,Noel MD,Scoville DH,Allman GW,Savage PB

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Win 41258-3 (4-[6-(2-chloro-4-methoxyphenoxy)hexyl]-3,5-diethyl-1H-pyrazole methane sulfonate) has in vitro and in vivo activity against herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2. In cell culture, a concentration of 2 microgram/ml produced a greater than 50% inhibition of plaque formation of herpes simplex virus type 2, and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pancic F,Steinberg BA,Diana GD,Carabateas PM,Gorman WG,Came PE

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are complex communities of microorganisms that attach to surfaces and are embedded in a self-produced extracellular matrix. Since these cells acquire increased tolerance against antimicrobial agents and host immune systems, biofilm-associated infectious diseases tend to become chronic. We show here that the m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arita-Morioka K,Yamanaka K,Mizunoe Y,Ogura T,Sugimoto S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of three plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants, QnrA, QnrB, and QnrS, among 526 nonreplicate clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae collected at a Taiwanese university hospital in 2004 was determined by PCR and colony hybridization, and the association of Qnr with the IMP-8 metallo-beta-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wu JJ,Ko WC,Tsai SH,Yan JJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrotoxicity was more marked in rats receiving isepamicin at midlight than at middark. And, the once-daily administration at middark induced a lesser degree of nephrotoxicity than the twice-daily injection, which indicates that the once-daily treatment therapy may have potential value in the clinical use of aminogly...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoshiyama Y,Nishikawa S,Sugiyama T,Kobayashi T,Shimada H,Tomonaga F,Ohdo S,Ogawa N,Nakano S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 3-alkyl-substituted 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinones, NSC 113452 (NSC52) and NSC 113455 (NSC55), were evaluated for activity against Toxoplasma gondii in vitro and in murine models of acute toxoplasmosis. In vitro, both NSC52 and NSC55 significantly inhibited intracellular replication of T. gondii. In vivo, each comp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khan AA,Nasr M,Araujo FG

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An observational study assessed the longitudinal use of a new line probe assay for the detection of protease mutations. Probe assays for detection of reverse transcriptase (Inno-LiPA HIV-1 RT; Innogenetics) and protease (prototype kit Inno-LiPA HIV Protease; Innogenetics) mutations gave results for 177 of 199 sequenti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Servais J,Lambert C,Plesséria JM,Fontaine E,Robert I,Arendt V,Staub T,Hemmer R,Schneider F,Schmit JC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to cholesterol-lowering capabilities, statins possess anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. We sought to quantify the real-world impact of different statin exposure patterns on clinical outcomes in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. We conducted a retrospective cohort study among hospitalized pati...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Caffrey AR,Timbrook TT,Noh E,Sakoulas G,Opal SM,Nizet V,LaPlante KL

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of eight contact lens solutions on a Mastigina sp., which was associated with the infected eye of a patient, were studied. The solutions which killed the organism promptly were those which are used for gas-permeable and hard contact lenses. Some solutions for soft contact lenses were more effective than ot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Niszl IA,Markus MB,van Deventer JM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eravacycline (TP-434 or 7-fluoro-9-pyrrolidinoacetamido-6-demethyl-6-deoxytetracycline) is a novel fluorocycline that was evaluated for antimicrobial activity against panels of recently isolated aerobic and anaerobic Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Eravacycline showed potent broad-spectrum activity against 9...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sutcliffe JA,O'Brien W,Fyfe C,Grossman TH

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mining existing agents that enhance the therapeutic potential of ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitors (EBI) is a promising approach to improve Chagas disease chemotherapy. In this study, we evaluated the effect of ravuconazole, an EBI, combined with amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker, upon Trypanosoma cruzi experimen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Machado YA,Bahia MT,Caldas IS,Mazzeti AL,Novaes RD,Vilas Boas BR,Santos LJS,Martins-Filho OA,Marques MJ,Diniz LF

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities to 20 antimicrobial agents of Bordetella bronchiseptica variants in C mode and degraded phases were compared with those of their parents in X mode. Increases in MICs of 4- to 32-fold were observed for ampicillin, carbenicillin, erythromycin, novobiocin, rifampin, chloramphenicol, nalidixic acid, a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ishikawa H,Isayama Y,Ohmae K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxazolidinone linezolid represents a new antibacterial class of potential benefit in managing multidrug-resistant gram-positive infections, including those caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. In a gerbil model of acute otitis media (AOM) induced by either penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae (PRSP; amoxicillin MIC =...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Humphrey WR,Shattuck MH,Zielinski RJ,Kuo MS,Biermacher JJ,Smith DP,Jensen JL,Schaadt RD,Zurenko GE,Richards IM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining voriconazole and flucloxacillin is indicated in patient cohorts experiencing both invasive aspergillosis and Gram-positive infections (e.g., patients with chronic granulomatous disease or postinfluenza pulmonary aspergillosis). We report a highly relevant interaction between voriconazole and flucloxacillin, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Muilwijk EW,Dekkers BGJ,Henriet SSV,Verweij PE,Witjes B,Lashof AMLO,Groeneveld GH,van der Hoeven J,Alffenaar JWC,Russel FGM,van de Veerdonk F,Brüggemann RJM

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic airway infection and inflammation contribute to the progressive loss of lung function and shortened survival of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Rhesus theta defensin-1 (RTD-1) is a macrocyclic host defense peptide with antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities. Combined with favorable preclinical safet...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bensman TJ,Jayne JG,Sun M,Kimura E,Meinert J,Wang JC,Schaal JB,Tran D,Rao AP,Akbari O,Selsted ME,Beringer PM

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A basic, random copolymer of l-ornithine and l-leucine (OL; molar ratios 1:1) was bactericidal to a sensitive (S) strain of Staphylococcus aureus at low concentration. Resistant cells (R) were selected from the culture medium and, after serial transfers to solutions containing increasing amounts of the polymer, grew w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shenfeld A,Flowers HM,Katchalski E

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptosporidium parvum, members of the phylum Apicomplexa, are significant pathogens of both humans and animals worldwide for which new and effective therapeutics are needed. Here we describe the activity of the antibiotic boromycin against Toxoplasma and Cryptosporidium Boromycin potently inhibi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Abenoja J,Cotto-Rosario A,O'Connor R

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:MurG and MraY, essential enzymes involved in the synthesis of bacterial peptidoglycan, are difficult to assay because the substrates are lipidic and hard to prepare in large quantities. Based on the use of Escherichia coli membranes lacking PBP1b, we report a high-throughput method to measure the activity of MurG and,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ravishankar S,Kumar VP,Chandrakala B,Jha RK,Solapure SM,de Sousa SM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of the lipophilic antifolate trimetrexate and the rescue agent leucovorin has shown promise in the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The pharmacokinetic behavior of trimetrexate administered either by intravenous bolus or orally was studied...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rogers P,Allegra CJ,Murphy RF,Drake JC,Masur H,Poplack DG,Chabner BA,Parrillo JE,Lane HC,Balis FM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A global sample of group A streptococci (GAS) revealed > or =80 separate acquisitions of tetracycline resistance. Of 244 clones, 38 and 25% displayed resistance to tetracycline and erythromycin, respectively; a relatively high proportion (15%) were resistant to both classes of drugs. tet(M) displayed a highly signific...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ayer V,Tewodros W,Manoharan A,Skariah S,Luo F,Bessen DE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of GR-20263, a new aminothiazolyl cephalosporin, was compared with the activities of other beta-lactam antibiotics by using 800 clinical bacterial isolates. GR-20263 was highly active (inhibition of 90% of the isolates between 0.03 and 1 microgram/ml) against the common Enterobacteriaceae and 5 t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verbist L,Verhaegen J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with Plasmodium berghei served as donors of erythrocytes with a high level of parasitemia for the study of ferriprotoporphyrin IX (FP) polymerization. Six hours after treatment of these mice with 3 micromol of chloroquine per 25 g of body weight, there were significant losses of heme polymerase I (HPA I)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fitch CD,Chou AC

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:Nemonoxacin (TG-873870) is a novel nonfluorinated quinolone with potent broad-spectrum activity against Gram-positive, Gram-negative, and atypical pathogens, including vancomycin-nonsusceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), quinolone-resistant MRSA, quinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cao GY,Zhang J,Zhang YY,Guo BN,Yu JC,Wu XJ,Chen YC,Wu JF,Shi YG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterial pathogen responsible for the majority of skin and soft tissue infections. Antibiotics are losing their efficacy as treatment for skin and soft tissue infections as a result of increased resistance in a variety of pathogens, including S. aureus It is thus imperative to explore alter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： van Staden Adu P,Heunis T,Smith C,Deane S,Dicks LM

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 91 multiply resistant bacterial strains, including Klebsiella pneumoniae (32 strains), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (16 strains), and Serratia marcescens (43 strains), were collected during hospital epidemics of nosocomial infection from 1975 to 1979. These strains were resistant to gentamicin, tobramycin, cephal...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hall WH,Opfer BJ,Gerding DN

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains a global health burden partly due to Plasmodium parasite resistance to first-line therapeutics. The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has emerged as an essential protein for blood-stage Plasmodium parasites, but details about its function during malaria's elusive liver stage are unclear...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Posfai D,Eubanks AL,Keim AI,Lu KY,Wang GZ,Hughes PF,Kato N,Haystead TA,Derbyshire ER

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two nitrosoureas, 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (CCNU) and 1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), with strong carbamoylating and weak alkylating activities, interfered with the induction of potassium leakage and lethal action of amphotericin B (AmB) on Candida albicans. 2-Cyclohexyl isocyanate, t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brajtburg J,Elberg S,Kobayashi GS,Medoff G

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00