Identification of a plasmid-borne resistance gene cluster comprising the resistance genes erm(T), dfrK, and tet(L) in a porcine methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 strain.

abstract：:Perturbation of hydroxyl radical accumulation by subinhibitory concentrations of 2,2'-bipyridyl plus thiourea protects Escherichia coli from being killed by 3 lethal antimicrobial classes. Here, we show that 2,2'-bipyridyl plus thiourea delays and/or reduces antimicrobial killing of Staphylococcus aureus by daptomycin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liu Y,Liu X,Qu Y,Wang X,Li L,Zhao X

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sordarin derivatives constitute a new group of synthetic antifungal agents that selectively inhibit fungal protein synthesis. They have demonstrated in vitro activity against the most important fungal pathogens, both yeast and filamentous. This new family of compounds has also shown in vivo activity against murine Can...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aviles P,Pateman A,San Roman R,Guillén MJ,Gómez De Las Heras F,Gargallo-Viola D

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new recombinant phenotyping method was developed for the analysis of drug resistance mutations in human cytomegalovirus (CMV). CMV strain T2211 was derived from strain AD169 by inserting unique restriction sites and a secreted alkaline phosphatase (SEAP) reporter gene for rapid viral quantitation. Specific viral UL9...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chou S,Van Wechel LC,Lichy HM,Marousek GI

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A portion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene encoding the beta subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB) was amplified by PCR using degenerate oligonucleotides and used as a hybridization probe to isolate plasmid clones carrying the entire rpoB gene of M. tuberculosis H37Rv, a virulent, rifampin-susceptible strain. Sequenc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Miller LP,Crawford JT,Shinnick TM

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:Leishmania mexicana is a protozoan parasite that causes a disease in humans with frequent relapses after treatment. It is also highly resistant to the currently available drugs. For this reason, there is an urgent need for more effective antileishmanial drugs. Hydroxyurea, an anticancer drug, is toxic to replicating e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martinez-Rojano H,Mancilla-Ramirez J,Quiñonez-Diaz L,Galindo-Sevilla N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive antibody administration is a potentially useful approach for the therapy of human Cryptococcus neoformans infections. To evaluate the efficacy of the human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) constant region against C. neoformans and to construct murine antibody derivatives with reduced immunogenicities and longer half-l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zebedee SL,Koduri RK,Mukherjee J,Mukherjee S,Lee S,Sauer DF,Scharff MD,Casadevall A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonism, determined by isobolograms constructed from data from combinations of ampicillin and chloramphenicol at or below the minimal inhibitory or bactericidal concentrations, was observed against 13 clinical isolates of meningococcus and against one isolate of pneumococcus. Synergy occurred against six strains of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Feldman WE,Zweighaft T

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-seven cultures of Haemophilus influenzae were tested for production of beta-lactamase by use of a modified, 1-min test. Only the 24 cultures that were ampicillin resistant, whether type b or not, yielded positive results for the enzyme; all ampicillin-susceptible isolates were uniformly negative. The beta-lactam...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escamilla J

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of newer macrolides in acute Q fever for 113 patients was recorded. The mean times to defervescence were 2.9 days for doxycycline and 3.3, 3.9, 3.9, and 6.4 days for clarithromycin, roxithromycin, erythromycin, and beta-lactams, respectively (P < 0.01 for macrolides versus beta-lactams). We conclude ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gikas A,Kofteridis DP,Manios A,Pediaditis J,Tselentis Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic diseases are of enormous public health significance in developing countries-a situation compounded by the toxicity of and resistance to many current chemotherapeutics. We investigated a focused library of 18 structurally diverse bis-acridine compounds for in vitro bioactivity against seven protozoan and one ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Caffrey CR,Steverding D,Swenerton RK,Kelly B,Walshe D,Debnath A,Zhou YM,Doyle PS,Fafarman AT,Zorn JA,Land KM,Beauchene J,Schreiber K,Moll H,Ponte-Sucre A,Schirmeister T,Saravanamuthu A,Fairlamb AH,Cohen FE,McKerrow

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occidiofungin is a cyclic glyco-lipopeptide produced by Burkholderia contaminans. MICs against Candida species were between 0.5 and 2.0 μg/ml. Occidiofungin retains its in vitro potency in the presence of 5% and 50% human serum with a minimal lethal concentration (MLC) of 2 and 4 μg/ml, respectively. Time-kill and pos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ellis D,Gosai J,Emrick C,Heintz R,Romans L,Gordon D,Lu SE,Austin F,Smith L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-two (54.5%) out of 132 fecal samples from a group of yellow-legged gulls in Barcelona, Spain, were positive for Escherichia coli producing either extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) (51.5%), carbapenemase (1.5%), or cephamycinase (1.5%). The isolation of two carbapenemase-producing E. coli strains is a matte...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vergara A,Pitart C,Montalvo T,Roca I,Sabaté S,Hurtado JC,Planell R,Marco F,Ramírez B,Peracho V,de Simón M,Vila J

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fortimicins are bicyclic aminoglycoside antibiotics that contain a fortamine moiety instead of the deoxystreptamine found in other aminoglysides. Fortimicin A had a bactericidal effect on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis and was found to inhibit protein synthesis in vivo. In vitro, fortimicin A inhibite...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moreau N,Jaxel C,Le Goffic F

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard antituberculosis (anti-TB) therapy requires the use of multiple drugs for a minimum of 6 months, with variable outcomes that are influenced by a number of microbiological, pathological, and clinical factors. This is despite the availability of antibiotics that have good activity against Mycobacterium tubercul...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kjellsson MC,Via LE,Goh A,Weiner D,Low KM,Kern S,Pillai G,Barry CE 3rd,Dartois V

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of four antibiotics and their combinations were determined for 38 strains of enterococci by a microtitration tube dilution technique. The drugs were ampicillin, vancomycin, gentamicin, and streptomycin; the combinations were ampicillin-gentamicin, ampicillin-streptomy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Harwick HJ,Kalmanson GM,Guze LB

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated the potent in vitro activity of erythromycin against Mycobacterium leprae as determined by its effect on ATP pools and rates of palmitate oxidation and phenolic glycolipid I synthesis. In the present study, the relative in vitro activities of a number of new macrolides with superior pharmaco...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Franzblau SG,Hastings RC

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritonitis is a major complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Relapsing peritonitis after the cessation of antimicrobial therapy is frequently reported and often involves Staphylococcus epidermidis. To investigate the potential role of catheter-associated biofilm in the pathogenesis of relapsing pe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Evans RC,Holmes CJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoxycillin was significantly more active than ampicillin in the treatment of intraperitoneal mouse infections when administered by oral and parenteral routes, although the causal bacteria were equally susceptible in vitro to the two penicillins. Amoxycillin produced higher antibiotic blood concentrations in mice than...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Comber KR,Osborne CD,Sutherland R

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of coinfection with malaria and HIV is a major challenge to public health in developing countries, and yet potential drug-drug interactions between antimalarial and antiviral regimens have not been adequately investigated in people with both infections. Each of the constituent components of artemether-lumef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chijioke-Nwauche I,van Wyk A,Nwauche C,Beshir KB,Kaur H,Sutherland CJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penetration of intravenously administered cefuroxime into ventricular fluid was assessed in five pediatric patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections and in one with a ventriculostomy infection. Patients received a total dose of 200 to 230 mg of cefuroxime per kg of body weight per day administered at 8-h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Edwards MS,Baker CJ,Butler KM,Mason EO Jr,Laurent JP,Cheek WR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azole antifungal agents such as fluconazole exhibit fungistatic activity against Candida albicans. Strategies to enhance azole antifungal activity would be therapeutically appealing. In an effort to identify transcriptional pathways that influence the killing activity of fluconazole, we sought to identify transcriptio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vasicek EM,Berkow EL,Bruno VM,Mitchell AP,Wiederhold NP,Barker KS,Rogers PD

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MICs and minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) for the biocides benzalkonium chloride and chlorhexidine were determined against 1,602 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Both compounds showed unimodal MIC and MBC distributions (2 and 4 or 8 mg/liter, respectively) with no apparent subpopulation with r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Furi L,Ciusa ML,Knight D,Di Lorenzo V,Tocci N,Cirasola D,Aragones L,Coelho JR,Freitas AT,Marchi E,Moce L,Visa P,Northwood JB,Viti C,Borghi E,Orefici G,BIOHYPO Consortium.,Morrissey I,Oggioni MR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are currently few or no published data on the amount of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) penetration of daptomycin in patients with suspected or documented neurosurgical infections. We conducted a prospective study, assessing the pharmacokinetics and CSF penetration of a single intravenous daptomycin dose administered ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kullar R,Chin JN,Edwards DJ,Parker D,Coplin WM,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:In this paper we provide the first biochemical evidence of the existence of a family of structure-related antimicrobial peptides, the siderophore-microcins, in the Enterobacteriaceae family. We isolated and characterized two novel siderophore-microcins, MccM and MccH47, previously characterized through genetic studies...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vassiliadis G,Destoumieux-Garzón D,Lombard C,Rebuffat S,Peduzzi J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida parapsilosis isolates occasionally display resistance in vitro to echinocandins and cause breakthrough infections to echinocandins. The degree of the in vivo cross-resistance among echinocandins and the fitness loss associated with caspofungin (CAS) resistance of C. parapsilosis are not well studied. We compar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dimopoulou D,Hamilos G,Tzardi M,Lewis RE,Samonis G,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the in vitro activity of piperacillin alone or in combination with the beta-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam against clinical isolates of Legionella species. At an inoculum of approximately 10(4) CFU, tazobactam, piperacillin, and the 8:1 combination had equivalent activities against Legionella spp. At an a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Collins LA,Wennersten CB,Ferraro MJ,Moellering RC Jr,Eliopoulos GM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylitol is effective in preventing acute otitis media by inhibiting the growth of Streptococcus pneumoniae. To clarify this inhibition we used fructose, which is known to block similar growth inhibition observed in Streptococcus mutans. In addition, we evaluated the efficacy of sorbitol in inhibiting the growth of pne...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tapiainen T,Kontiokari T,Sammalkivi L,Ikäheimo I,Koskela M,Uhari M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olorofim is a novel antifungal drug in phase 2 trials. It has shown promising in vitro activity against various molds, except for Mucorales. Initially, we observed a broad range of EUCAST MICs for Aspergillus fumigatus Here, we explored the MIC variability in more detail and prospectively investigated the susceptibili...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Astvad KMT,Jørgensen KM,Hare RK,Datcu R,Arendrup MC

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00