Treatment of murine coccidioidomycosis with polymyxin B.

abstract：:Twelve straight-chain esters, C(5) to C(14), C(16), and C(18), of p-hydroxybenzoic acid were prepared, and their melting points, solubilities in water at 25 degrees C, infrared spectra, dissociation constants (pK(a)), and activities against Clostridium botulinum were determined. These studies also included four commer...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dymicky M,Huhtanen CN

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK-18892 is a new aminoglycoside antibiotic, a derivative of kanamycin A structurally related to amikacin. It was found to be active against a wide range of pathogenic bacteria, including many gentamicin-resistant strains. The spectrum and degree of activity of UK-18892 were similar to those of amikacin, and differenc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wise R,Andrews JM

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NK-2, a membrane-acting antimicrobial peptide, was derived from the cationic core region of porcine NK-lysin and consists of 27 amino acid residues. It adopts an amphipathic, alpha-helical secondary structure and has been shown to interact specifically with membranes of negatively charged lipids. We therefore investig...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Andrä J,Koch MH,Bartels R,Brandenburg K

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic interaction of planktonic and biofilm cells of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa with tobramycin and piperacillin was investigated in a chemostat system. The results indicated that planktonic and young biofilm cells of the 2-day-old chemostat culture of P. aeruginosa were susceptible to killing by chemostat-co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Anwar H,Strap JL,Chen K,Costerton JW

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:We examined the influences of different pH levels and three different buffers on flucytosine activity against 12 isolates of Candida albicans in two synthetic media, yeast nitrogen base (YNB) and synthetic amino acid medium-fungal (SAAMF), using broth dilution techniques and measuring the endpoints of visual MICs and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Calhoun DL,Galgiani JN

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single point mutation in the 23S rRNA gene of Helicobacter pylori is known to confer resistance to clarithromycin. Most prevalent among clarithromycin-resistant clinical H. pylori isolates are the mutations from A-2142 to G and A-2143 to G in the 23S rRNA gene. The bias in the 23S rRNA gene mutations conferring clar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Debets-Ossenkopp YJ,Brinkman AB,Kuipers EJ,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Kusters JG

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide-resistant mutants of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli were selected in vitro using erythromycin and tylosin. These mutants exhibited modifications in the ribosomal proteins L4 (G74D) and L22 (insertions at position 86 or 98). A synergy between the CmeABC efflux pump and these modifications in conf...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cagliero C,Mouline C,Cloeckaert A,Payot S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of treatment of 10 patients with anaerobic infections with metronidazole are presented. Six patients were cured, three showed initial good response but circumstances required a change to another drug, and one patient did not respond. The unique spectrum of the drug, its pharmacology, and limitations are di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tally FP,Sutter VL,Finegold SM

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major clinical challenge for treating infectious diseases is the duration of antimicrobial therapy required to eradicate the pathogen. We hypothesized that modulation of the bacterial replication rate in the context of an antimicrobial exposure is coupled with the rate and extent of bactericidal effects. Herein we d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ambrose PG,VanScoy B,Conde H,McCauley J,Rubino CM,Bhavnani SM

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing need for novel drugs and new strategies for the therapy of invasive candidiasis. This study aimed to develop and characterize liposome-based nanoparticles of carvacrol, cinnamaldehyde, citral or thymol with anti-Candida activities. Dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide- and monoolein-based liposom...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Miranda-Cadena K,Dias M,Costa-Barbosa A,Collins T,Marcos-Arias C,Eraso E,Pais C,Quindós G,Sampaio P

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook this study to investigate whether treatment with a higher dose of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) led to greater clinical resolution in patients with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A prospective, observational cohort with neste...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cadena J,Nair S,Henao-Martinez AF,Jorgensen JH,Patterson JE,Sreeramoju PV

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently cloned a DNA fragment containing a gene cluster that is responsible for the biosynthesis of an antituberculosis antibiotic, D-cycloserine. The gene cluster is composed of 10 open reading frames, designated dcsA to dcsJ. Judging from the sequence similarity between each putative gene product and known ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Uda N,Matoba Y,Kumagai T,Oda K,Noda M,Sugiyama M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is an essential chaperone involved in the fungal stress response that can be harnessed as a novel antifungal target for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis. We previously showed that genetic repression of Hsp90 reduced Aspergillus fumigatus virulence and potentiated the effect of the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lamoth F,Juvvadi PR,Soderblom EJ,Moseley MA,Asfaw YG,Steinbach WJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages have been used for more than a century for (unconventional) therapy of bacterial infections, for half a century as tools in genetic research, for 2 decades as tools for discovery of specific target-binding proteins, and for nearly a decade as tools for vaccination or as gene delivery vehicles. Here we p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yacoby I,Shamis M,Bar H,Shabat D,Benhar I

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motility of viable Trichomonas vaginalis organisms is readily demonstrable in a clinical wet mount or cultured specimens. We attempted to determine whether migration is a dynamic process such that the organisms move to avoid exposure to toxic antimicrobial agents. With the use of axenic cultures of T. vaginalis th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sugarman B,Mummaw N

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients developed abnormally low serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase values during metronidazole therapy. Metronidazole absorbs at 340 nm, simulating reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, which is the final colorimetric product of the serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase assay. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rissing JP,Newman C,Moore WL Jr

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis is a severe infection that affects millions of patients worldwide and is endemic in the Americas. Amphotericin B (AMB) and itraconazole are highly effective for the treatment of severe and milder forms of the disease, but AMB is toxic, and the bioavailability of itraconazole is erratic. Therefore, it is...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Aguiar Cordeiro R,de Farias Marques FJ,de Aguiar Cordeiro R,da Silva MR,Donato Maia Malaquias A,Silva de Melo CV,Mafezoli J,Ferreira de Oliveira Mda C,Nogueira Brilhante RS,Gadelha Rocha MF,Pinheiro Gomes Bandeira Tde J,Costa Si

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of cinoxacin, a synthetic organic acid antimicrobial agent, was studied and found to have in vitro activity similar to that previously reported for nalidixic acid. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kurtz S,Turck M

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deduced amino acid sequence of Campylobacter jejuni Tet(O), cloned in Escherichia coli, has shown that it contains the five highly conserved sequences of the GTP-binding domain found in other GTPases. Asn-128 belongs to the G4 motif of such a domain and is involved in hydrogen bonding with the guanine ring of the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grewal J,Manavathu EK,Taylor DE

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbation of hydroxyl radical accumulation by subinhibitory concentrations of 2,2'-bipyridyl plus thiourea protects Escherichia coli from being killed by 3 lethal antimicrobial classes. Here, we show that 2,2'-bipyridyl plus thiourea delays and/or reduces antimicrobial killing of Staphylococcus aureus by daptomycin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liu Y,Liu X,Qu Y,Wang X,Li L,Zhao X

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron-chelating drug deferoxamine (DFO) has been shown to be active in animal models of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), with effective daily intraperitoneal bolus dosages being 400 and 1,000 mg of DFO mesylate kg of body weight-1 in mouse and rat models, respectively. Continuous infusion produced a moderately...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Merali S,Chin K,Del Angel L,Grady RW,Armstrong M,Clarkson AB Jr

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative time-kill experiments with Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage (phage) Sb-1 alone and phage-antibiotic combinations (PACs) against two methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains have shown synergy with both daptomycin-phage and vancomycin-phage combinations. PACs prevented development of phage resistan...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kebriaei R,Lev K,Morrisette T,Stamper KC,Abdul-Mutakabbir JC,Lehman SM,Morales S,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) isolate was obtained from a patient in Pennsylvania in September 2002. Species identification was confirmed by standard biochemical tests and analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA, gyrA, and gyrB sequences; all of the results were consistent with the S. aureus identification...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tenover FC,Weigel LM,Appelbaum PC,McDougal LK,Chaitram J,McAllister S,Clark N,Killgore G,O'Hara CM,Jevitt L,Patel JB,Bozdogan B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell wall composition and autolytic properties of passage-selected glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (GISA) isolates and their parent strains were studied in order to investigate the mechanism of decreased vancomycin susceptibility. GISA had relatively modest changes in peptidoglycan composition invo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koehl JL,Muthaiyan A,Jayaswal RK,Ehlert K,Labischinski H,Wilkinson BJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleobase and nucleoside transporters play central roles in the biochemistry of parasitic protozoa, as they lack the ability to synthesize purines de novo and are absolutely reliant upon purine salvage from their hosts. Furthermore, such transporters are potentially critical to the pharmacology of these important hum...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Al-Salabi MI,de Koning HP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in the incidence of rare but hard-to-treat invasive fungal pathogens as well as resistance to the currently available antifungal drugs calls for new broad-spectrum antifungals with a novel mechanism of action. Here we report the identification and characterization of two novel zinc-attenuating compounds, Z...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cohrt KAO,Marín L,Kjellerup L,Clausen JD,Dalby-Brown W,Calera JA,Winther AL

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Data comparing the treatment outcomes of the two most frequently recommended empirical antibiotic regimens for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)--combination therapy with an extended-spectrum beta-lactam and a macrolide (BL+M) or fluoroquinolone (F) monotherapy--for patients with severe CAP are sparse. The purpose of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lodise TP,Kwa A,Cosler L,Gupta R,Smith RP

更新日期：2007-11-01 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 comparative activities of azithromycin (AZI) and clarithromycin (CLA) against eight Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates were evaluated in the beige mouse model of disseminated infection. Mice were infected intravenously with approximately 10(7) viable MAC isolate. AZI at 100 or 200 mg/kg of body weight or C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cynamon MH,Klemens SP,Grossi MA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00