Clinical isolates of Aspergillus species remain fully susceptible to voriconazole in the post-voriconazole era.

abstract：:Piperacillin and vancomycin were used as initial empirical therapy for 211 febrile episodes in cancer patients. The response rate in 95 episodes of documented infection was 72%. The response of bacteremias, soft tissue infections, and pneumonias was 78, 71, and 38%, respectively. The response in infections caused by g...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jadeja L,Bolivar R,Fainstein V,Keating M,McCredie K,Hay M,Bodey GP

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophilic albumin microspheres are proposed as a new delivery system for amphotericin B (AMB; AMB microspheres). The acute toxicity of AMB microspheres was lower than that of the AMB-deoxycholate (AMB-Doc) reference formulation in hamsters. Lethal doses in healthy and infected animals were improved at least eight ti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sánchez-Brunete JA,Dea MA,Rama S,Bolás F,Alunda JM,Raposo R,Méndez MT,Torrado-Santiago S,Torrado JJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Nonadecynoic acid (6-NDA), a plant-derived acetylenic acid, exhibits strong inhibitory activity against the human fungal pathogens Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. In the present study, transcriptional profiling coupled with mutant and biochemical analyses were conducted usin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xu T,Tripathi SK,Feng Q,Lorenz MC,Wright MA,Jacob MR,Mask MM,Baerson SR,Li XC,Clark AM,Agarwal AK

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artesunate (AS) is used in combination with amodiaquine (AQ) as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in many countries. We investigated the effect of concomitant AS administration on the pharmacokinetics of AQ and compared concentrations of desethylamodiaquine (DEAQ), the main metabolite of AQ, in plasma bet...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adjei GO,Kristensen K,Goka BQ,Hoegberg LC,Alifrangis M,Rodrigues OP,Kurtzhals JA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Lactamase identification by colony hybridization with 32P-labeled DNA probes for TEM-1, SHV-1, OXA-1, OXA-2, PSE-1, PSE-2, and PSE-4 was compared with isoelectric focusing in 122 clinical isolates making a variety of enzyme types. All strains producing a probe-type enzyme gave a positive hybridization reaction. C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Huovinen S,Huovinén P,Jacoby GA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One way to speed up the TB drug discovery process is to search for antitubercular activity among compound series that already possess some of the key properties needed in anti-infective drug discovery, such as whole-cell activity and oral absorption. Here, we present MGIs, a new series of Mycobacterium tuberculosis gy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Blanco D,Perez-Herran E,Cacho M,Ballell L,Castro J,González Del Río R,Lavandera JL,Remuiñán MJ,Richards C,Rullas J,Vázquez-Muñiz MJ,Woldu E,Zapatero-González MC,Angulo-Barturen I,Mendoza A,Barros D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-influenza drug oseltamivir is an ester prodrug activated by hepatic carboxylesterases. Plasma esterases also convert up to 31.8% of the parent compound to the active metabolite after 4 h ex vivo, with wide interindividual variation. This source of error is removed by adding the esterase inhibitor dichlorvos t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lindegardh N,Davies GR,Tran TH,Farrar J,Singhasivanon P,Day NP,White NJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior investigators have reported a broad gram-negative spectrum and a marked anti-Pseudomonas activity in vitro with BL-P1654, 6-[R-alpha-(guanylureido)phenylacetamido]-penicillanic acid. An in vitro comparison of BL-P1654 to carbenicillin was performed against 84 strains of Pseudomonas and 39 strains of Enterobacter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Overturf GD,Ressler R,Wilkins J

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic with potent in vitro activity against gram-positive cocci, including Staphylococcus aureus. This study evaluated the in vitro and in vivo efficacies of daptomycin against two clinical isolates: methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) 277 (vancomycin MIC, 2 microg/ml) and glycopept...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marco F,de la Mària CG,Armero Y,Amat E,Soy D,Moreno A,del Río A,Almela M,Mestres CA,Gatell JM,Jiménez de Anta MT,Miró JM,Hospital Clinic Experimental Endocarditis Study Group.

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the influence of the lipid/amphotericin B (AMB) ratio and the phospholipid type on the in vitro renal cell toxicity and antifungal efficacy of lipid-associated AMB (L-AMB). L-AMB was prepared at one of two different lipid/AMB ratios (1 and 40) by incubating AMB with empty small unilamellar vesicles, made fr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Joly V,Bolard J,Saint-Julien L,Carbon C,Yeni P

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of dialysis fermentation with the continuous extraction of the dialysate has resulted in a twofold increase in the cycloheximide titer due to relief from product inhibition. Continuous extraction of the dialysate has eliminated the necessity for large reservoir volumes of fermentation medium normally used in d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kominek LA

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary resistance to azoles in Aspergillus fumigatus isolates from patients taking long-term itraconazole therapy has been described. We studied the acquisition of secondary azole resistance in 20 A. fumigatus isolates with no mutations at codon 54, 98, 138, 220, 432, or 448 in the cyp51A gene. Adjusted conidium in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escribano P,Recio S,Peláez T,González-Rivera M,Bouza E,Guinea J

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:We recently identified a novel plasmid-mediated RND-type efflux pump gene cluster, tmexCD1-toprJ1 in Klebsiella pneumoniae, that conferred resistance to multiple antimicrobials, including tigecycline. While homologs of tmexCD1-toprJ1 were found encoded in many other bacterial species in GenBank, their function and tra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang CZ,Gao X,Yang QW,Lv LC,Wan M,Yang J,Cai ZP,Liu JH

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The biliary excretion profile of cefixime was studied in 10 patients provided with T-tube drainage of the common bile duct after cholecystectomy. Following a single 200-mg oral dose, the peak concentration of cefixime in bile reached 56.9 +/- 70 mg/liter, approximately 20 times as high as the peak concentration in ser...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Westphal JF,Jehl F,Schloegel M,Monteil H,Brogard JM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clarithromycin is compared with clindamycin for single-dose prophylaxis of streptococcal endocarditis in rats. Human-like kinetics of the two antibiotics prevented endocarditis in animals challenged with both small and large amounts of bacterial inocula. Clarithromycin was marginally superior to clindamycin against sm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vermot D,Entenza JM,Vouillamoz J,Glauser MP,Moreillon P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MarA47(Yp) from Yersinia pestis, showing 47% identity to Escherichia coli MarA in its N terminus, caused resistance to antibiotics and to organic solvents when expressed in both E. coli and Y. pestis. Resistance was linked to increased expression of the AcrAB multidrug efflux pump. In four of five spontaneous multidru...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Udani RA,Levy SB

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination antiretroviral therapy has achieved dramatic reductions in the mortality and morbidity in people with HIV-1 infection. Darunavir (DRV) represents a most efficacious and well-tolerated protease inhibitor (PI) with a high genetic barrier to the emergence of drug-resistant HIV-1. However, highly DRV-resistant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takamatsu Y,Aoki M,Bulut H,Das D,Amano M,Sheri VR,Kovari LC,Hayashi H,Delino NS,Ghosh AK,Mitsuya H

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrotoxicity was more marked in rats receiving isepamicin at midlight than at middark. And, the once-daily administration at middark induced a lesser degree of nephrotoxicity than the twice-daily injection, which indicates that the once-daily treatment therapy may have potential value in the clinical use of aminogly...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoshiyama Y,Nishikawa S,Sugiyama T,Kobayashi T,Shimada H,Tomonaga F,Ohdo S,Ogawa N,Nakano S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 6-amino-2-n-pentylthiobenzothiazole (APB), a new antifungal agent, on ergosterol biosynthesis in Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae were studied, using [14C]acetate incorporation. In C. albicans, the inhibition of growth was accompanied by a marked inhibition of acetate incorporation in 4-des...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kuchta T,Léka C,Farkas P,Bujdáková H,Belajová E,Russell NJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest species of malaria parasites, is dependent on glycolysis for the generation of ATP during the pathogenic red blood cell stage. Hexokinase (HK) catalyzes the first step in glycolysis, transferring the γ-phosphoryl group of ATP to glucose to yield glucose-6-phosphate. Here, we descri...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Davis MI,Patrick SL,Blanding WM,Dwivedi V,Suryadi J,Golden JE,Coussens NP,Lee OW,Shen M,Boxer MB,Hall MD,Sharlow ER,Drew ME,Morris JC

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading pathogen for bacterial pneumonia, which can be treated with bacteriophage lysins harboring a conserved choline binding module (CBM). Such lysins regularly function as choline-recognizing dimers. Previously, we reported a pneumococcus-specific lysin ClyJ comprising the binding doma...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Luo D,Huang L,Gondil VS,Zhou W,Yang W,Jia M,Hu S,He J,Yang H,Wei H

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of alleles with triple mutations conferring sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) resistance in the Peruvian Amazon Basin has declined (16.9% for dhfr and 0% for dhps compared to 47% for both alleles in 1997) 5 years after SP was replaced as the first-line treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Microsatel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhou Z,Griffing SM,de Oliveira AM,McCollum AM,Quezada WM,Arrospide N,Escalante AA,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporangiomycin and micrococcin inhibit the binding of aminoacyl-transfer ribonucleic acid into the ribosomal A site in intact bacterial protoplasts. They also prevent the assembly of [ribosome-elongation factor G-guanine nucleotide] complexes in vitro and compete with [(35)S]thiostrepton for ribosomal binding sites. W...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cundliffe E,Dixon PD

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-level resistance to quinolones has previously been shown to occur in Campylobacter spp. both in vitro and in patients treated with quinolones. We have selected isolates that are resistant to quinolones by plating cells from a susceptible C. jejuni strain, UA535, on medium containing nalidixic acid at 32 microgram...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gootz TD,Martin BA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of the macrolide roxithromycin (RU 28965) were studied during and after administration of 150 mg every 12 h for 3 days (five doses) in six volunteers. The concentrations in serum, blister fluid, and urine were measured. Mean levels in serum taken at 1.5 h after the morning dose increased from 4.4 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wise R,Kirkpatrick B,Ashby J,Andrews JM

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of any of six clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus to daptomycin alone or in combination with vancomycin or oxacillin (compared with vancomycin or oxacillin alone) led to a dampened macrophage inflammatory response with diminished tumor necrosis factor secretion and reduced accumulation of inducible nit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： English BK,Maryniw EM,Talati AJ,Meals EA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental transfer of the HIV protease inhibitor darunavir was investigated in 5 term human cotyledons perfused with darunavir (1,000 ng/ml) in the maternal to fetal direction. The mean (± the standard deviation [SD]) fetal transfer rate (FTR) (fetal/maternal concentration at steady state from 30 to 90 min) was 15.0%±...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mandelbrot L,Duro D,Belissa E,Peytavin G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the activity of daptomycin against 76 Listeria monocytogenes isolates from cerebrospinal fluid by broth dilution and Etest methods. For the broth dilution method, the MIC range was 1.0 to 8.0 and the MIC at which 90% of the isolates tested were inhibited (MIC(90)) was 4.0 mg/liter. For the Etest method, the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spanjaard L,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suboptimal doses of amphotericin B in combination with either rifampin or 5-fluorocytosine were better than single-drug therapy in the treatment of disseminated Aspergillus fumigatus infection in mice. Despite the increased effectiveness of combination therapy, none of the therapeutic regimens we used completely eradi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arroyo J,Medoff G,Kobayashi GS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00