Penetration of colistin into cerebrospinal fluid.

abstract：:Mannopeptimycins alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon are new cyclic glycopeptide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus LL-AC98. Mannopeptimycins gamma, delta, and epsilon, which have an isovaleryl substitution at various positions on the terminal mannose of the disaccharide moiety, demonstrated moderat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singh MP,Petersen PJ,Weiss WJ,Janso JE,Luckman SW,Lenoy EB,Bradford PA,Testa RT,Greenstein M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported an influenza virus neuraminidase inhibitor, RWJ-270201 (BCX-1812), a novel cyclopentane derivative discovered through structure-based drug design. In this paper, we compare the potency of three compounds, RWJ-270201, oseltamivir, and zanamivir, against neuraminidase enzymes from various subty...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bantia S,Parker CD,Ananth SL,Horn LL,Andries K,Chand P,Kotian PL,Dehghani A,El-Kattan Y,Lin T,Hutchison TL,Montgomery JA,Kellog DL,Babu YS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin is increasingly used as a salvage therapy for nosocomial infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii. However, the available pharmacokinetic (PK) data for colistin are limited to guide dosing. The aim of this study was to develop a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee J,Han S,Jeon S,Hong T,Song W,Woo H,Yim DS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two clinical isolates of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae were noted to be less susceptible than expected to imipenem. Both were missing outer membrane proteins that serve as channels for antibiotic entry. The role of beta-lactamase in resistance was investigated by eliminating t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martínez-Martínez L,Pascual A,Hernández-Allés S,Alvarez-Díaz D,Suárez AI,Tran J,Benedí VJ,Jacoby GA

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promotion of colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) is one potential side effect during treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD), resulting from disturbances in gut microbiota. Cadazolid (CDZ) is an investigational antibiotic with potent in vitro activity against C. difficile...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seiler P,Enderlin-Paput M,Pfaff P,Weiss M,Ritz D,Clozel M,Locher HH

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) has been linked to the development of microcephaly in newborns, as well as Guillain-Barré syndrome. There are currently no drugs available to treat ZIKV infection, and accordingly, there is an unmet medical need for the discovery of new therapies. High-throughput drug screening efforts focusing on in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bernatchez JA,Yang Z,Coste M,Li J,Beck S,Liu Y,Clark AE,Zhu Z,Luna LA,Sohl CD,Purse BW,Li R,Siqueira-Neto JL

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of herpes simplex virus type 1, resistant to phosphonoformate (PFA) and phosphonoacetate (PAA), have been selected in cell culture. The PFA-resistant mutant (HSV-PFA(r)) and the PAA-resistant mutant (HSV-PAA(r)) were also resistant to PAA and PFA, respectively. This cross-resistance indicates that PFA and PAA ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eriksson B,Oberg B

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of micafungin dose scheduling on the treatment of candidemia is unknown. Neutropenic mice with disseminated Candida glabrata infection were treated with single intraperitoneal micafungin doses of 0 to 100 mg/kg of body weight and sacrificed 7 days later. The maximal decline in kidney fungal burden was 5.8 l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gumbo T,Drusano GL,Liu W,Kulawy RW,Fregeau C,Hsu V,Louie A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ajoene (4,5,9-trithiadodeca-1,6,11-triene 9-oxide), a product initially isolated from extracts of garlic (Allium sativum), was tested for its antimalarial activity in vivo in a well-characterized murine model. A single ajoene dose of 50 mg/kg, on the day of infection, suppressed the development of parasitemia; there w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perez HA,De la Rosa M,Apitz R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in hospital patients. Moreover, increased incidences of outpatient MRSA have been recently reported. This study investigated the bactericidal activity of dalbavancin, a novel, semisynthetic glycopepti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jabés D,Candiani G,Romanó G,Brunati C,Riva S,Cavaleri M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Against 307 pneumococci of various resistotypes, dalbavancin MICs were 0.008 to 0.125 microg/ml. All strains were susceptible to vancomycin, teicoplanin, linezolid, and quinupristin-dalfopristin. Dalbavancin at 2x MIC was bactericidal against all 10 pneumococci tested after 24 h. Vancomycin and teicoplanin killed 10 a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lin G,Smith K,Ednie LM,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur flavoproteins (Isf) are flavin mononucleotide (FMN)- and FeS cluster-containing proteins commonly encountered in anaerobic prokaryotes. However, with the exception of Isf from Methanosarcina thermophila, which participates in oxidative stress management by removing oxygen and hydrogen peroxide, none of the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smutná T,Pilarová K,Tarábek J,Tachezy J,Hrdý I

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftolozane is a novel cephalosporin with activity against drug-resistant pathogens, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The in vivo investigation reported here tested the limits of this drug against 20 P. aeruginosa and S. pneumoniae isolates across a wide MIC range and defined resistance m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lepak AJ,Reda A,Marchillo K,Van Hecker J,Craig WA,Andes D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing using zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) has been successfully applied to disrupt CCR5 or CXCR4 host factors and inhibit viral entry and infection. Gene therapy using ZFNs to modify the PSIP1 gene, which encodes the lens epithelium-derived growth factor (LEDGF) protein, might restrain an early step of the vir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Badia R,Pauls E,Riveira-Munoz E,Clotet B,Esté JA,Ballana E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 (HIV-1) variants were selected for resistance to the (+) and (-) enantiomers of a novel nucleoside analogue, 2'-deoxy-3'-oxa-4'-thio-5-fluorocytidine (dOTFC), by use of the infectious molecular clone HIV HXB2D and the human T-cell line MT-4. The dOTFC-resistant variants that w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Richard N,Salomon H,Rando R,Mansour T,Bowlin TL,Wainberg MA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Decynoyl-N-acetylcystamine is known to inhibit the in vitro growth of Escherichia coli but not of yeasts or mammalian cells. Neither the free acid nor the 2 positional isomer is active (L. R. Kass, J. Biol. Chem. 243:3223-3228, 1968). Other studies have shown that 2-hexadecynoic acid is fungitoxic whereas most of th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Konthikamee W,Gilbertson JR,Langkamp H,Gershon H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mupirocin is a topical antimicrobial used to decolonize patients who carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and the topical agent retapamulin may be a potential alternative therapy. The goal of this study was to determine the in vitro activity of retapamulin as well as a panel of 15 antimicrobial ag...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Harrington AT,Black JA,Clarridge JE 3rd

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel trait for transferable resistance to high concentrations of trimethoprim was found to dominate among enterobacteria collected from different parts of Sri Lanka. Drug resistance was a result of the production of dihydrofolate reductase with a decreased sensitivity to antifolates. By characterization of the part...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sundström L,Vinayagamoorthy T,Sköld O

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 22 penicillinase-producing and 32 non-penicillinase-producing strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to 13 antimicrobial agents, including the new semisynthetic penicillins and cephalosporins, are reported. Ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, and cefotaxime were the most active agents tested; none of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coovadia YM,Ramsaroop U

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human norovirus (HuNoV) is a major cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, yet despite its impact on society, vaccines and antivirals are currently lacking. A HuNoV replicon system has been widely applied to the evaluation of antiviral compounds and has thus accelerated the process of drug discovery against H...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitano M,Hosmillo M,Emmott E,Lu J,Goodfellow I

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CP-65,207 is a new parenteral penem antibiotic with a broad spectrum that includes gram-positive, gram-negative, and anaerobic microorganisms, with MICs for 90% (MIC90s) of the majority of 1,101 clinical pathogens tested being less than or equal to 1 microgram/ml. The compound was from 10- to 100-fold more active than...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gootz T,Retsema J,Girard A,Hamanaka E,Anderson M,Sokolowski S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine clinical isolates of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii were obtained from 12 hospitals in 7 prefectures throughout Japan. Molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed the clonal spread of A. baumannii sequence type 208 (ST208) and ST455 isolates harboring the armA gene and ST512 harboring the armA and...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tada T,Miyoshi-Akiyama T,Shimada K,Shimojima M,Kirikae T

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recalcitrant dermatophytoses are on the rise in India. High MICs of terbinafine (TRB) and squalene epoxidase (SQLE) gene mutations conferring resistance in Trichophyton spp. have been recently documented. However, studies correlating laboratory data with clinical response to TRB in tinea corporis/cruris are lacking. F...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khurana A,Masih A,Chowdhary A,Sardana K,Borker S,Gupta A,Gautam RK,Sharma PK,Jain D

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriolytic antibiotics cause the release of bacterial components that augment the host inflammatory response, which in turn contributes to the pathophysiology of brain injury in bacterial meningitis. In the present study, antibiotic therapy with nonbacteriolytic daptomycin was compared with that of bacteriolytic ce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grandgirard D,Schürch C,Cottagnoud P,Leib SL

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：: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：:Nephrotoxicity is the main complication of gentamicin (GM) treatment. GM induces renal damage by overproduction of reactive oxygen species and inflammation in proximal tubular cells. Phenolic compounds from ginger, called gingerols, have been demonstrated to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. We investiga...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodrigues FA,Prata MM,Oliveira IC,Alves NT,Freitas RE,Monteiro HS,Silva JA,Vieira PC,Viana DA,Libório AB,Havt A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovicin HC5, a broad-spectrum lantibiotic produced by Streptococcus bovis HC5, catalyzed the efflux of intracellular potassium from Streptococcus bovis JB1, a sensitive strain. The level of ATP also decreased, but this decline appeared to be caused by the activity of the F(1)F(0) ATPase rather than efflux per se. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mantovani HC,Russell JB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-L-2',3'-Dideoxy-5-fluorocytidine (beta-L-FddC), a novel cytidine analog with an unnatural beta-L sugar configuration, has been demonstrated by our group and others to exhibit highly selective in vitro activity against human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 and hepatitis B virus. This encouraging in vitro anti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martin LT,Cretton-Scott E,Schinazi RF,Zhou XJ,McClure HM,Mathe C,Gosselin G,Imbach JL,Sommadossi JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five sequential Cryptococcus neoformans isolates recovered from an AIDS patient with recurrent meningitis were analyzed. Four isolates were fluconazole susceptible, while the fifth isolate developed fluconazole resistance. Analysis of the 14-alpha lanosterol demethylase gene (ERG11) showed a point mutation in the resi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodero L,Mellado E,Rodriguez AC,Salve A,Guelfand L,Cahn P,Cuenca-Estrella M,Davel G,Rodriguez-Tudela JL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00