Polyamine transport as a target for treatment of Pneumocystis pneumonia.

abstract：:The novel triazole D0870 was tested for in vitro activity, as well as in vivo in a murine model of pulmonary blastomycosis. In vitro, D0870 had inhibitory and fungicidal activity against Blastomyces dermatitidis (MIC = 0.048 microgram/ml; minimal fungicidal concentration = 0.097 microgram/ml). In vivo, D0870 was appro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clemons KV,Hanson LH,Stevens DA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is a serious complication of infection by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Shiga toxin type 2 (Stx2) is responsible for the renal toxicity that can follow intestinal infection and hemorrhagic colitis due to E. coli. A chimeric mouse-human antibody, designated c alpha Stx2, that h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dowling TC,Chavaillaz PA,Young DG,Melton-Celsa A,O'Brien A,Thuning-Roberson C,Edelman R,Tacket CO

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro model of monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MO-DC) and CD4(+) T cells, representing the primary targets of sexual human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, was used to evaluate the antiviral and immune suppressive activity of new classes of nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, diaryltriazi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Herrewege Y,Vanham G,Michiels J,Fransen K,Kestens L,Andries K,Janssen P,Lewi P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribavirin (RBV) is a broad-spectrum antiviral agent that inhibits the production of infectious Hantaan virus (HTNV). Although the mechanism of action of RBV against HTNV is not understood, RBV is metabolized in human cells to both RBV-5'-monophosphate, which inhibits IMP dehydrogenase, resulting in a decrease in intra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun Y,Chung DH,Chu YK,Jonsson CB,Parker WB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lamivudine is a major drug approved for treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Emergence of drug-resistant mutants with amino acid substitutions in the YMDD motif is a well-documented problem during long-term lamivudine therapy. Here we report a novel lamivudine-resistant strain of HBV with an intact ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yatsuji H,Noguchi C,Hiraga N,Mori N,Tsuge M,Imamura M,Takahashi S,Iwao E,Fujimoto Y,Ochi H,Abe H,Maekawa T,Tateno C,Yoshizato K,Suzuki F,Kumada H,Chayama K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenpropimorph was shown to inhibit the accumulation of the pyrimidine bases uracil and cytosine from the growth media in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Uracil prototrophs of S. cerevisiae were more resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of fenpropimorph than were uracil auxotrophs. High concentrations of uracil rescued...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Crowley JH,Lorenz RT,Parks LW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic dynamics in the fluid obtained from subcutaneously implanted chambers in rats were similar to those observed in serum following single intramuscular injections of carbenicillin. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gardner WG,Prior RB,Perkins RL

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B and N-D-ornithyl amphotericin B methyl ester were compared for therapeutic efficacies against experimentally induced cryptococcal meningitis and Candida albicans endocarditis with pyelonephritis in rabbits. Antifungal activity of the two polyenes in vitro was similar for the yeasts used in these experim...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perfect JR,Durack DT

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three sizes of inserted regions of DNA (800, 1,000, and 1,500 bp) were shown to be common among class I integrons in unrelated clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from different European hospitals. Sequencing showed that 800-bp inserted regions comprised identical sequences including aacA4, that 1,000-bp inserted ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martinez-Freijo P,Fluit AC,Schmitz FJ,Verhoef J,Jones ME

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 177 gram-negative isolates, the MICs for ciprofloxacin ranged from 0.02 microgram/ml (Escherichia coli) to 0.31 microgram/ml (Pseudomonas aeruginosa). In time-kill curves, ciprofloxacin at 8 X the MIC almost completely killed 10(6) CFU of P. aeruginosa by 24 h. Ciprofloxacin at 4 X the MIC allowed bacterial regrow...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rudin JE,Norden CW,Shinners EM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous Escherichia coli mutant, named Q3, resistant to nalidixic acid was obtained from a previously described clinical isolate of E. coli, Q2, resistant to fluoroquinolones but susceptible to nalidixic acid (E. Cambau, F. Bordon, E. Collatz, and L. Gutmann, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 37:1247-1252, 1993). Q3...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Truong QC,Nguyen Van JC,Shlaes D,Gutmann L,Moreau NJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mepRAB gene cluster of Staphylococcus aureus encodes a MarR family repressor (MepR; known to repress mepA expression), a MATE family multidrug efflux pump (MepA), and a protein of unknown function (MepB). In this report, we show that MepR also is autoregulatory, repressing the expression of its own gene. Exposure ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaatz GW,DeMarco CE,Seo SM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the relationship between rifampin MICs and rpoB mutations of 40 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A point mutation in either codon 516, 526, or 531 was found in 13 strains requiring MICs of > or = 64 micrograms/ml, while 21 strains requiring MICs of < or = 1 microgram/ml showed no alteration...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ohno H,Koga H,Kohno S,Tashiro T,Hara K

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posaconazole and itraconazole were more potent inhibitors of ergosterol synthesis, in both intact cells and cell extracts from Absidia corymbifera and Rhizopus oryzae, than voriconazole and fluconazole. Similarly, expression of CYP51 from R. oryzae in Saccharomyces cerevisiae significantly increased resistance to fluc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chau AS,Chen G,McNicholas PM,Mann PA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibiotic-producing pseudomonad was isolated from a seawater sample from a La Jolla, Calif., tidepool. The pseudomonad produces two novel antibacterial compounds, 2-n-pentyl-4-quinolinol and 2-n-heptyl-4-quinolinol. It also synthesizes indole-3-carboxaldehyde, 6-bromoindole-3-carboxaldehyde, and the known antibiot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wratten SJ,Wolfe MS,Andersen RJ,Faulkner DJ

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violacein is a violet pigment extracted from the gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium violaceum. It presents bactericidal, tumoricidal, trypanocidal, and antileishmanial activities. We show that micromolar concentrations efficiently killed chloroquine-sensitive and -resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains in vitro;...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lopes SC,Blanco YC,Justo GZ,Nogueira PA,Rodrigues FL,Goelnitz U,Wunderlich G,Facchini G,Brocchi M,Duran N,Costa FT

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an obligate aerobe, Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses its electron transport chain (ETC) to produce energy via oxidative phosphorylation. This pathway has recently garnered a lot of attention and is a target for several new antimycobacterials. We tested the respiratory adaptation of M. tuberculosis to phenoxyalkylben...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berube BJ,Parish T

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The type II fatty acid synthesis (FASII) pathway is essential for bacterial lipid biosynthesis and continues to be a promising target for novel antibacterial compounds. Recently, it has been demonstrated that Chlamydia is capable of FASII and this pathway is indispensable for Chlamydia growth. Previously, a high-conte...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mojica SA,Salin O,Bastidas RJ,Sunduru N,Hedenström M,Andersson CD,Núñez-Otero C,Engström P,Valdivia RH,Elofsson M,Gylfe Å

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A disk agar diffusion method was developed for testing the susceptibility of rapidly growing yeasts in vitro. A totally defined, completely synthetic agar culture medium (synthetic amino acid medium, fungal) and clinical isolates of Candida spp. and Torulopsis glabrata were used. Turbidimetric adjustment of cell suspe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Saubolle MA,Hoeprich PD

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disk bioassay for determining clindamycin serum levels is presented. This method is rapid (results available in 6.0 to 6.5 h), reliable, and simple to perform. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liberman DF,Fitzgerald J,Robertson RG

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiviral drugs do not currently exist for the treatment of enterovirus infections, which are often severe and potentially life-threatening. We conducted high-throughput molecular screening and identified a structurally diverse set of compounds that inhibit the replication of coxsackievirus B3, a commonly encountered ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zuo J,Kye S,Quinn KK,Cooper P,Damoiseaux R,Krogstad P

更新日期：2015-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MDR-Ent) infections continue to increase in the United States. In prior studies, we identified neighboring regions in Chicago, Illinois, where children have 5 to 6 times greater odds of MDR-Ent infections. To prevent community spread of MDR-Ent, we need to ide...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Logan LK,Zhang L,Green SJ,Dorevitch S,Arango-Argoty GA,Reme K,Garner E,Aldstadt J,Johnson-Walker YJ,Hayden MK,Weinstein RA,Pruden A

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic cerulenin markedly inhibits the growth of Escherichia coli. The effects of the antibiotic on cellular syntheses were studied by measuring the incorporation of labeled precursors into lipids and macromolecules. During the first 40 min after the addition of cerulenin to a culture of growing cells, lipid s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldberg I,Walker JR,Bloch K

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty years after the last endemic smallpox case, variola virus (VARV) is still considered a major threat to humans due to its possible use as a bioterrorism agent. For many years, the risk of disease reemergence was thought to solely be through deliberate misuse of VARV strains kept in clandestine laboratories. Howev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Delaune D,Iseni F

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A method utilizing immobilized major group rhinoviruses and biotinylated soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 has been developed for the detection of capsid binders. Binding measurements indicate a loss in relative affinity of biotinylated soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 for rhinoviruses by capsid binde...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Last-Barney K,Marlin SD,Pal K,Cahill-Feehan C,McNally EJ,Jeanfavre DD,Merluzzi VJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative transfer of R plasmids R64 and R64drd-11 has been compared in vitro and in vivo without selective pressure by antibiotics in a simplified experimental system; the ecosystem was the bowel of germfree chickens, with the host bacteria almost isogenic, and the plasmids differing only in their conjugative trans...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sansonetti P,Lafont JP,Jaffé-Brachet A,Guillot JF,Chaslus-Dancla E

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B lipid complex for injection (ABLC) is a suspension of amphotericin B complexed with the lipids L-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and L-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol. ABLC is less toxic than amphotericin B deoxycholate (AmB-d), while it maintains the antifungal activity of AmB-d. Acti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swenson CE,Perkins WR,Roberts P,Ahmad I,Stevens R,Stevens DA,Janoff AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus is intrinsically resistant to many antimycobacterial antibiotics, which presents serious problems in therapy. Here, we describe the development of a novel phenotype-based microscopic and computerized imaging drug screening approach. A pilot screen of 568 compounds from two libraries identified ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Richter A,Strauch A,Chao J,Ko M,Av-Gay Y

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the nitroaromatic agents used in medicine function as prodrugs and must undergo activation before exerting their toxic effects. In most cases, this is catalyzed by flavin mononucleotide (FMN)-dependent type I nitroreductases (NTRs), a class of enzyme absent from higher eukaryotes but expressed by bacteria and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Voak AA,Seifert K,Helsby NA,Wilkinson SR

更新日期：2014-01-01 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