Influence of human serum on bactericidal activity of ceftizoxime sodium.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gram-negative bacilli are the most common bacteria causing nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBSIs) in Latin American countries. METHODS:The antibiotic resistance profiles of Gram-negative bacilli isolated from blood cultures in pediatric patients with NBSIs over a 3-year period in a tertiary care pediatri...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Ares MÁ,Alcántar-Curiel MD,Jiménez-Galicia C,Rios-Sarabia N,Pacheco S,De la Cruz MÁ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique process has been developed to convert bituminous coal by controlled wet oxidation followed by base treatment to a water-soluble humate called oxihumate. Oxihumate inhibited HIV-1 infection of MT-2 cells with an IC(50) of 12.5 microg/ml. Treatment of free and cell-attached HIV with oxihumate irreversibly reduc...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： van Rensburg CE,Dekker J,Weis R,Smith TL,Janse van Rensburg E,Schneider J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous forms of a serum resistant Escherichia coli strain developed under in vitro exposure to subminimal inhibitory concentration of the compound LY 127935 showed a higher resistance against host defence than the nontreated control bacteria. Significantly diminished LD50 values and a longer lasting persisten...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Pusztai-Markos Z,Pranada F,Leimbrock C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the majority of patients can be treated safely with fluoropyrimidine, some experience severe fluoropyrimidine-associated toxicity. The frequency and severity of these adverse events vary from patient to patient and are partially explained by genetic polymorphism into the dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD) ge...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Falvella FS,Luoni M,Cheli S,Fava S,Cergnul M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal bactericidal concentrations of thienamycin revealed moderate intraphagolysosomal bactericidal activity against pseudo-(PSR) and genuinely serum-resistant (NSS) assay strains of Serratia marcescens. Combinations of inhibitory and subinhibitory concentrations of thienamycin with 55 vol% of defibrinated human blo...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Traub WH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of enterococcal infections is often difficult because of intrinsic and acquired resistance to a variety of antimicrobial agents. Between January 1993 and May 1997, enterococci were isolated from blood cultures of 117 patients at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University Hospital Eppend...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Elsner HA,Sobottka I,Feucht HH,Claussen M,Kaulfers PM,Laufs R,Mack D

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ciprofloxacin is commonly used and considered to be relatively safe in patients with cirrhosis, especially in the treatment of enteric and urinary tract infections. Among the adverse effects of ciprofloxacin, neurologic complications are rare. METHODS/RESULTS:We report a case of hemiballism and altered ment...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Kim SH,Jeong SH,Kim JW,Lee SH,Kim JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen quinolone antibacterial agents were investigated as to their ability to inhibit Micrococcus luteus DNA gyrase and cell growth, and compared to those of novobiocin and coumermycin. Among the quinolones tested, the most active were found to be CI-934 and ciprofloxacin, which inhibited gyrase full supercoiling a...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Fu KP,Grace ME,McCloud SJ,Gregory FJ,Hung PP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-antibiotic effects (PAEs) of a new cephalosporin, cefdinir, were determined against a range of organisms using a viable counting technique. Cefdinir exerted considerable PAEs against Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes, but no overall post-antibiotic inhibition of growth was detected against Esch...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Howard BM,Pinney RJ,Smith JT

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of latamoxef, cefoperazone and piperacillin, administered intravenously, were measured in serum and sputum of cystic fibrosis patients with recurrent pulmonary infections, chronically colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Serum pharmacokinetic data were consistent with prior reports. Peak sputum to pea...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Laferriere C,Stutman HR,Marks MI,Kramer J,Flux M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:137 patients with febrile neutropenia after cytotoxic therapy not responding to ceftazidime plus or ceftriaxone plus netilmicin in received additionally to the previous combination either vancomycin alone or combined with another anti-gram-negative compound: imipenem in those treated prophylactically with ofloxacin an...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Lacka J,Oravcova E,Sevcikova L,Studena M,Bachanova V,Kukuckova E,Spanik S,Sufliarsky J,Helpianska L,Trupl J,Kunova A,Vochyanova I,Sycova Z,Grey E,Krcméry V Jr

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the effectiveness of several antibiotic regimens, using a rat model of Escherichia coli experimental pyelonephritis that mimics the conditions of severe renal infections in man because the infection is acquired by the ascending route. We found that ceftriaxone, when given for 5 days to rats with severe ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Glauser MP,Bonard

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) affects 400 million people worldwide and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. It is known that HBV DNA sequences were detected after the clearance of serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) often in serum, liver and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The objectives of our...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Akhan SC,Yulugkural Z,Vahaboglu H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cephalosporins do not reach active therapeutical concentrations in the prostatic tissue in patients suffering from chronic bacterial prostatitis. Cefoperazone is an exception. Its efficacy in the treatment of chronic bacterial prostatitis in 20 patients was studied and the concentrations, obtained after intramuscular ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Melloni D,Ammatuna P,Formica P,Falletta V,Gaglio F,Cacciatore M,Messina G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular activity of flurithromycin, erythromycin, roxithromycin and miocamycin against susceptible clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, phagocytosed by human monocytes, was investigated. Intracellular bioactivity was studied in a 24-hour assay, using experimental conditions which allowed the intracell...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Fietta A,Boeri P,Colombo ML,Merlini C,Gialdroni Grassi G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefpirome and six other antimicrobial agents were tested against 884 blood culture isolates from cancer patients. Cefpirome was highly active against aerobic gram-negative bacilli including Acinetobacter spp., and the Enterobacteriaceae. Only imipenem was more active than cefpirome against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Cefp...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Rolston K,Alvarez ME,Hoy JF,LeBlanc B,Ho DH,Bodey GP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy of listeriosis with ampicillin was examined in two murine models with compromised defense mechanisms. In mice treated with dextran sulfate paralysing the function of the macrophage system, ampicillin was less able to reduce death rates as well as bacterial counts in the spleens than after infection of normal m...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Hof H,Emmerling P,Seeliger HP

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistant variants of three clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were obtained in the presence of aztreonam. The variants exhibited a four- to eightfold increase in the minimal inhibitory concentrations to beta-lactam antibiotics (except imipenem) to quinolones, such as norfloxacin and fleroxacin, chloramphenicol ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Leying HJ,Büscher KH,Cullmann W,Then RL

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mezlocillin was used alone and in combination with cloxacillin in the treatment of chronic experimental osteomyelitis due to Morganella morganii. This combination showed in vitro synergy as measured by the checkerboard technique. A marked inoculum affect was demonstrated in vitro with mezlocillin and the infecting str...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Norden CW,Shaffer M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the antibacterial activity of the new penem antibiotic Men 10700 against a total of 740 gram-positive and gram-negative clinical isolates, in comparison to imipenem, meropenem, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and gentamicin. Men 10700 has shown a wide spectrum of antibacterial activity, with a po...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Varotto F,Parravidini E,De Luca M,Casini A,Fraschini F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is an iron overload condition. Copper deficiency itself might induce dysplastic changes and iron overload. The relationship between the iron and copper metabolism is analyzed in MDS patients. METHODS:Copper, iron and ceruloplasmin levels were established, and transferrin satur...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Várkonyi J,Szabó T,Sebestyén P,Tordai A,Andrikovics H,Kollai G,Karádi I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of flomoxef in serum and in the mucosal tissue of the middle ear and mastoid were studied in 9 patients undergoing tympanoplasties. All patients received 1 g of flomoxef intravenously. Flomoxef levels in serum and in mucosal tissue were determined by a bioassay method. The peak value of mean conce...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Saito H,Kimura T,Takeda T,Kishimoto S,Oguma T,Shimamura K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the pharmacokinetic parameters of cephalosporins between children and adults may be predictable on the basis of the level of maturation of the physiologic processes involved in drug disposition. It appears that the most important of these factors (gastrointestinal, renal and hepatic function) are reason...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Edwards DJ,Stoeckel K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifampicin and rifapentine were used in the treatment of Listeria monocytogenes infections in normal mice and congenitally athymic (nude) mice. Results were compared with untreated controls and with the results obtained from a previous study of ampicillin in which this model was used. Low doses of rifampicin or rifape...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Bakker-Woudenberg IA,de Bos P,Michel MF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial endotoxin is known to act as a potent trigger of disseminated coagulation and septic shock. During clinical antibiotic treatment, endotoxin may be released from Gram-negative bacteria. It is known that antibiotic classes differ in their ability to induce endotoxin release. AIM:It was the aim of th...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Trautmann M,Scheibe C,Wellinghausen N,Holst O,Lepper PM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rational choice of an antimicrobial agent must take into account not only the activity against the specific pathogen but also any possible negative or positive effects on the host defense system. Rokitamycin (RKM) is an orally active 16-membered-ring macrolide; there are no reports of specific investigations of thes...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Braga PC,Maci S,Dal Sasso M,Fonti E,Ghessi A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative in vitro activity of amikacin, cefamandole, cefoperazone, cefotaxime, cefoxitin, cephalothin, chloramphenicol, moxalactam, piperacillin, ticarcillin and tobramycin against 170 community blood culture isolates of gram-negative bacilli was investigated using the quantitative plate dilution method. Result...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Gordon RC,Tack KJ,Haddy RI,Fechner L,Wofford R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The brain is a frequent site of metastases in small-cell lung cancer. Symptoms of cerebral involvement are headache, disorientation, nausea/vomiting and seizures. CASE:A man with small-cell lung cancer developed a human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) meningoencephalitis with neurological symptoms that simulated brai...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Mordenti P,Zaffignani E,Immovilli P,Nobili E,Cavanna L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study aimed to evaluate the different abilities of various Phellinus igniarius strains inhibiting quorum sensing (QS), to search for novel QS inhibitors from them and to analyze their inhibitory activity, with a view to their possible use in controlling infections. METHODS:The bioactive metabolites produced ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Zhu H,Liu W,Wang SX,Tian BZ,Zhang SS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:A phase 3 trial of S-1, leucovorin (LV), and oxaliplatin for treating gastric cancer is now underway. However, the antitumor efficacy of the combination has not yet been examined in an in vivo preclinical study. This study examined the antitumor efficacy of combination therapy consisting of S-1, LV, and ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Nagase H,Nakagawa F,Uchida J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00