In vitro susceptibility testing procedures for fosfomycin tromethamine.

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a multidrug-resistant pathogen that poses a significant risk to global health today. We have developed a promising new FtsZ-targeting agent (TXA707) with potent activity against MRSA isolates resistant to current standard-of-care antibiotics. We present here result...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ferrer-González E,Kaul M,Parhi AK,LaVoie EJ,Pilch DS

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive carbon-containing electrodes conveying 5 or more microA of constant direct current per cm2 showed bactericidal activity on intact back skin of 13 human subjects. This effect increased with the duration of stimulation up to a total surface bacterial kill at 20 h. When total current and current density were var...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bolton L,Foleno B,Means B,Petrucelli S

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacogenetics of antimalarial agents are poorly known, although the application of pharmacogenetics might be critical in optimizing treatment. This population pharmacokinetic-pharmacogenetic study aimed at assessing the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in cytochrome P450 isoenzyme genes (CYP, n...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Staehli Hodel EM,Csajka C,Ariey F,Guidi M,Kabanywanyi AM,Duong S,Decosterd LA,Olliaro P,Beck HP,Genton B

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential pharmacokinetic interaction between rifampin (Rimactan, Rifadin) and zidovudine (AZT, Retrovir) was investigated in the population of human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients at our hospital. The results from four patients who were on long-term (> or = 6 months) combination therapy with zidovudine an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Burger DM,Meenhorst PL,Koks CH,Beijnen JH

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the in vitro activities of isavuconazole, posaconazole, voriconazole, and fluconazole against Dipodascus capitatus (n = 21), Saccharomyces cerevisiae (n = 20), Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (n = 18), and Trichosporon spp. (n = 15). The MIC(50)s, MIC(90)s, and MIC ranges (in microg/ml) obtained using the CLSI M2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Guinea J,Recio S,Escribano P,Peláez T,Gama B,Bouza E

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftezole, a new cephalosporin derivative, was compared with cefazolin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin. Data obtained indicate that it is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, with almost identical antimicrobial activity against pathogenic organisms isolated from patients. The therapeutic effect of ceftezole on experimental in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nishida M,Murakawa T,Kamimura T,Okada N,Sakamoto H,Fukada S,Nakamoto S,Yokota Y,Miki K

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous NAD, nicotinamide mononucleotide, or nicotinamide riboside is required for the growth of Haemophilus influenzae. These compounds have been defined as the V-factor growth requirement. We have previously shown that the internalization of nicotinamide riboside is energy dependent and carrier mediated with satur...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Godek CP,Cynamon MH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broth dilution minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) readings were compared after different incubation periods and with different inoculum concentrations. The purpose was to determine the best conditions for obtaining early results as close as possible to overnight readings. Initially, 76 antibiotic-organism combinat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lampe MF,Aitken CL,Dennis PG,Forsythe PS,Patrick KE,Schoenknecht FD,Sherris JC

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MprF is responsible for the lysinylation of phosphatidylglycerol (PG) to synthesize the positively charged phospholipid (PL) species, lysyl-PG (L-PG). It has been proposed that the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the mprF open reading frame (ORF) are associated with a gain-in-function phenotype in terms ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bayer AS,Mishra NN,Chen L,Kreiswirth BN,Rubio A,Yang SJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae resistant to carbapenems are being isolated with increasing frequency. Loss of the expression of the major nonspecific porins OmpK35/36 is a frequent feature in these isolates. In this study, we looked for porins that could compensate for the loss of the major porins in carba...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： García-Sureda L,Doménech-Sánchez A,Barbier M,Juan C,Gascó J,Albertí S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases or plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamases were screened for qnrA and qnrB genes. QnrB was present in 54 of 54 DHA-1-producing K. pneumoniae isolates and 10 of 45 SHV-12-producing ones, suggesting that the distrib...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pai H,Seo MR,Choi TY

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of azlocillin were studied in 10 cystic fibrosis patients, ranging in age from 11 to 28 years. The patients received a 9- to 23-day course of 350 mg of azlocillin per kg in four or six divided daily doses in combination with am aminoglycoside. Blood and urine samples were collected at specified ti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bosso JA,Saxon BA,Herbst JJ,Matsen JM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent pharmacokinetic studies that included children found that serum drug levels were low compared to those of adults for whom the same dosages were used. This study aimed to characterize the pharmacokinetics of pyrazinamide and ethambutol in Malawian children and to examine the impact of age, nutritional status, an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Graham SM,Bell DJ,Nyirongo S,Hartkoorn R,Ward SA,Molyneux EM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of gentamicin to control contamination in a tissue culture system for the isolation of Chlamydia was investigated. Gentamicin, at concentrations up to 100 mug/ml, did not appear to inhibit the growth of stock chlamydial strains, as judged by assays for iodine-staining inclusions. When 343 cervical and urethral...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wentworth BB

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous antibiotics have proven to be effective at ameliorating the clinical symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTIs), but recurrent and chronic infections continue to plague many individuals. Most UTIs are caused by strains of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), which can form both extra- and intracellular bio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blango MG,Mulvey MA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed, synthesized, and characterized a novel nucleoside analog, (1S,3S,5S)-3-(2-amino-6-oxo-1,6-dihydro-9H-purin-9-yl)-5-hydroxy-1-(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylene-cyclopentanecarbonitrile, or 4'-cyano-methylenecarbocyclic-2'-deoxyguanosine (CMCdG), and evaluated its anti-hepatitis B virus (anti-HBV) activity, safet...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Higashi-Kuwata N,Hayashi S,Das D,Kohgo S,Murakami S,Hattori SI,Imoto S,Venzon DJ,Singh K,Sarafianos SG,Tanaka Y,Mitsuya H

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an isogenic system, we have determined the impact that the four promoters known to control bla(TEM) gene expression have on beta-lactamase activity. For both TEM-1 and TEM-30, this activity gradually increased in relation to the presence of promoters P3, Pa/Pb, and P4 upstream of the corresponding gene. Promoter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lartigue MF,Leflon-Guibout V,Poirel L,Nordmann P,Nicolas-Chanoine MH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-O-(3',3'-Dimethylsuccinyl) betulinic acid (DSB), also known as PA-457, bevirimat (BVM), or MPC-4326, is a novel HIV-1 maturation inhibitor. Unlike protease inhibitors, BVM blocks the cleavage of the Gag capsid precursor (CA-SP1) to mature capsid (CA) protein, resulting in the release of immature, noninfectious viral...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lu W,Salzwedel K,Wang D,Chakravarty S,Freed EO,Wild CT,Li F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli the frequency of spontaneous single-step mutation to high levels of resistance to the newer 4-quinolone agent norfloxacin was confirmed to be over 300-fold lower than that to the older agent nalidixic acid. Serial passage on incremental concentrations of drug was necessary to produce mutants highly...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hooper DC,Wolfson JS,Souza KS,Tung C,McHugh GL,Swartz MN

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a consequence of blood-borne bacterial sepsis, endotoxin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria can trigger an acute inflammatory response, leading to a series of pathological events and often resulting in death. To block this inflammatory response to endotoxin, a novel lipid A an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kobayashi S,Kawata T,Kimura A,Miyamoto K,Katayama K,Yamatsu I,Rossignol DP,Christ WJ,Kishi Y

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drug Ro5-3335 [7-chloro-5-(2-pyrryl)-3H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2(H)-one] inhibits human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gene expression at the transcriptional level through interference with Tat-mediated transactivation (M.-C. Hsu, A. D. Schutt, M. Holly, L. W. Slice, M. I. Sherman, D. D. Richman, M. J. Potash, a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Witvrouw M,Pauwels R,Vandamme AM,Schols D,Reymen D,Yamamoto N,Desmyter J,De Clercq E

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral doses of norfloxacin (80 mg/kg of body weight per day) and ciprofloxacin (25 and 80 mg/kg/day) and intramuscular doses of teicoplanin (5 mg/kg/day), all administered once a day for 10 days, were evaluated as a means of preventing encrusted cystitis caused by Corynebacterium group D2. Zinc disks dipped into a 24-h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Soriano F,Rodriguez-Tudela JL,Castilla C,Avilés P

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent reports of resistance in Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinin derivatives and their partner drugs demand intensive studies toward understanding the molecular mechanisms of resistance. In this study, we examined the in vitro susceptibility of 63 P. falciparum field isolates collected from the China-Myanmar b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hao M,Jia D,Li Q,He Y,Yuan L,Xu S,Chen K,Wu J,Shen L,Sun L,Zhao H,Yang Z,Cui L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii synthesizes sterols with a double bond at C-7 of the sterol nucleus and an alkyl group with one or two carbons at C-24 of the side chain. Also, some human-derived Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis strains contain lanosterol derivatives with an alkyl group at C-24. These unique sterols have not b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaneshiro ES,Collins MS,Cushion MT

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptic species of Aspergillus fumigatus, including the Aspergillus viridinutans species complex, are increasingly reported to be causes of invasive aspergillosis. Their identification is clinically relevant, as these species frequently have intrinsic resistance to common antifungals. We evaluated the susceptibilities...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lyskova P,Hubka V,Svobodova L,Barrs V,Dhand NK,Yaguchi T,Matsuzawa T,Horie Y,Kolarik M,Dobias R,Hamal P

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of a new quinolone, WIN 57273, and the combination of piperacillin and tazobactam, a beta-lactamase inhibitor, were compared with those of cefoxitin, ceftizoxime, chloramphenicol, clindamycin, imipenem, metronidazole, and piperacillin for 123 clinical anaerobic isolates. Ceftizoxime and cefoxit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Venezia RA,Yocum DM,Robbiano EM,Echols RM

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of piperaquine (PQ) into breast milk was examined in 27 Papua New Guinean women given a 3-day course of dihydroartemisinin-PQ or sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine-PQ during the second/third trimester. Breast milk was sampled on days 1, 2, 3 to 5, 7 to 11, and 14 to 17 postdelivery, a median of 70 days postdose (range...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moore BR,Salman S,Benjamin J,Page-Sharp M,Yadi G,Batty KT,Siba PM,Mueller I,Davis TM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxin B (PMB) binds to and neutralizes endotoxin, but its systemic clinical utility is limited by neuro- and nephrotoxicity. PMX622 is a covalent conjugate of PMB and Dextran-70 designed to retain the ability of PMB to neutralize endotoxin and to retain the favorable colloidal, pharmacokinetic, and metabolic prope...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lake P,DeLeo J,Cerasoli F,Logdberg L,Weetall M,Handley D

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viomycin-resistant strains isolated from Mycobacterium smegmatis demonstrated pleiotropic resistance to tuberactinomycin-N, capreomycin, streptomycin, and kanamycin as a result of mutational alteration of ribosomes, even though they were selected for resistance to a single antibiotic. The pleiotropic drug resistance o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yamada T,Masuda K,Shoji K,Hori M

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00