Daptomycin is effective in treatment of experimental endocarditis due to methicillin-resistant and glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:The stability of antipseudomonal beta-lactams in concentrated solutions was examined in view of their potential administration by continuous infusion with external pumps (for intensive care patients) or with portable pumps carried under clothing (for cystic fibrosis patients). Aztreonam (100 g/liter), piperacillin (12...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Viaene E,Chanteux H,Servais H,Mingeot-Leclercq MP,Tulkens PM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between four fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, pefloxacin, and ofloxacin) and biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in wells of microtiter plates and on segments of vascular catheters were studied in an in vitro model of vascular catheter colonization. Subinhibitory concentrations (one-half, o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yassien M,Khardori N,Ahmedy A,Toama M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the antiviral action of sulfated polyanions in human immunodeficiency virus and other viral infections, we studied the effect of dextran sulfate and heparin on duck hepatitis B virus infection. These agents do not affect viral uptake and replication in liver cells in vitro or in vivo. Sulfated polyanio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Offensperger WB,Offensperger S,Walter E,Blum HE,Gerok W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis strain WCH9 displays a moderate level of resistance to vancomycin (MIC = 16 microgram/ml) and full susceptibility to teicoplanin but is negative by PCR analysis using primers specific for all known enterococcal vancomycin resistance genotypes (vanA, vanB, vanC, vanD, and vanE). We have isolated a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McKessar SJ,Berry AM,Bell JM,Turnidge JD,Paton JC

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The repurposing of existing drugs is being pursued as a means by which to accelerate the development of novel regimens for the treatment of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). In the current study, we assessed the activity of the antipsychotic drug thioridazine (TRZ) in combination with the standard...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dutta NK,Pinn ML,Karakousis PC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

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：:The mycobacterial embCAB operon encodes arabinosyl transferases, putative targets of the antimycobacterial agent ethambutol (EMB). Mutations in embB lead to resistance to EMB in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The basis for natural, intrinsic resistance to EMB in nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is not known; neither is ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Alcaide F,Pfyffer GE,Telenti A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 1964 study of the pharmacokinetic determinants of penicillin cure of gonococcal urethritis, 45 male prisoner volunteers were experimentally infected with strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae having known in vitro penicillin susceptibility. After developing urethritis, subjects received intramuscular penicillin G and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jaffe HW,Schroeter AL,Reynolds GH,Zaidi AA,Martin JE Jr,Thayer JD

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How HIV-1 resistant to small-molecule CCR5 antagonists uses the coreceptor for entry has been studied in a limited number of isolates. We characterized dependence on the N terminus (NT) and the second extracellular loop (ECL2) of CCR5 of three vicriviroc (VCV)-resistant clinical isolates broadly cross-resistant to oth...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Henrich TJ,Lewine NR,Lee SH,Rao SS,Berro R,Gulick RM,Moore JP,Tsibris AM,Kuritzkes DR

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare the activity of HMR 1043 with those of daptomycin and teicoplanin against gram-positive isolates. Susceptibility tests were performed for 52 strains, 26 parental strains, including staphylococcal, streptococcal, enterococcal, and listerial strains, and 26 HMR 1043-resistant mut...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bemer P,Juvin ME,Bryskier A,Drugeon H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of intravenous (i.v.) benzylpenicillin in term neonates undergoing moderate hypothermia after perinatal asphyxia were evaluated, as they have been unknown until now. A system-specific modeling approach was applied, in which our recently developed covariate model describing developme...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bijleveld YA,de Haan TR,van der Lee JH,Groenendaal F,Dijk PH,van Heijst A,de Jonge RCJ,Dijkman KP,van Straaten HLM,Rijken M,Zonnenberg IA,Cools F,Zecic A,Nuytemans DHGM,van Kaam AH,Mathôt RAA,PharmaCool Study Group.

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve healthy volunteers participated in this randomized crossover study to compare the concentrations and recovery levels of fleroxacin and pefloxacin in urine and to assess their bactericidal activities against 12 strains of urinary pathogens with different susceptibilities over a wide range of MICs. The volunteers...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Naber KG,Theuretzbacher U,Kinzig M,Savov O,Sörgel F

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation constants for binding to ribosomes from Escherichia coli and concentrations at which 50% inhibition of [(14)C]erythromycin binding to ribosomes occurred were determined for 45 erythromycin analogues. These values were correlated with their antibacterial activities against Bacillus subtilis. Compounds ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pestka S,Lemahieu R,Miller P

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of niridazole and metronidazole were compared by an agar dilution method against 40 strains of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni of human origin. Niridazole had a markedly higher activity than metronidazole. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Freydière AM,Gille Y,Tigaud S,Vincent P

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 39% of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sequence type 239 (ST239)-like bloodstream isolates from Liverpool Hospital (obtained between 1997 and 2008) carry an arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). Whole-genome sequencing revealed that an ACME II variant is located between orfX and SC...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Espedido BA,Steen JA,Barbagiannakos T,Mercer J,Paterson DL,Grimmond SM,Cooper MA,Gosbell IB,van Hal SJ,Jensen SO

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of dermatophytoses, including onychomycosis, has come a long way over the past few decades with the introduction of oral antifungals (e.g., terbinafine and itraconazole). However, with these advancements in oral therapies come several undesirable effects, such as kidney and liver toxicity, along with dru...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Long L,Hager C,Ghannoum M

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique group of viridans streptococci has been found in South Africa. These organisms were isolated in close temporal and physical proximity to the isolation of penicillin-resistant pneumococci. The strains were resistant to penicillin, oxacillin, the cephalosporins (all generations), piperacillin, azlocillin, and m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Farber BF,Eliopoulos GM,Ward JI,Ruoff KL,Syriopoulou V,Moellering RC Jr

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) replication in primary duck hepatocytes was monitored by examining the synthesis of both DHBV DNA and DHBV core antigen. Several nucleoside analogs which were previously shown to inhibit the replication of DNA viruses (i.e., herpesviruses) and retroviruses were examined for their inhibito...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yokota T,Konno K,Chonan E,Mochizuki S,Kojima K,Shigeta S,de Clercq E

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical variations accompanying the acquisition of ethambutol (EMB) resistance in a single-step mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra were analyzed. Comparative analysis of phospholipids revealed a reduced content in the EMB-resistant strain, particularly in the cell membrane fraction. Significant alterations...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sareen M,Khuller GK

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if saquinavir mesylate (saquinavir) is a substrate of human multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 (hMRP1 [ABCC1]) or hMRP2 (cMOAT, or ABCC2), MDCKII cells that overexpress either hMRP1 (MDCKII-MRP1) or hMRP2 (MDCKII-MRP2) were used to investigate saquinavir's cytotoxicity and transport in comparison w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Williams GC,Liu A,Knipp G,Sinko PJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of three plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants, QnrA, QnrB, and QnrS, among 526 nonreplicate clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae collected at a Taiwanese university hospital in 2004 was determined by PCR and colony hybridization, and the association of Qnr with the IMP-8 metallo-beta-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wu JJ,Ko WC,Tsai SH,Yan JJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyronaridine, a Mannich base antimalarial, has demonstrated high in vivo and in vitro efficacy against chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. Although this drug has the potential to become a prominent artemisinin combination therapy, little is known about its efficacy against drug-resistant Plasmodium vivax. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Price RN,Marfurt J,Chalfein F,Kenangalem E,Piera KA,Tjitra E,Anstey NM,Russell B

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 47-kbp plasmid pGFT1 from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Dublin mediated tetracycline resistance via a tet(A) gene located on an integrated copy of a Tn1721-analogous transposon. The integration site of the transposon was located within the reading frame of a fip gene. Plasmid pGFT1 was shown to be co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Frech G,Schwarz S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid (6-7 hr), modified Kirby-Bauer disk-susceptibility method, by which derivatives of tetrazolium dyes are used to enhance delineation between areas of growth and zones of inhibition, has been developed. Inoculated petri plates, prepared by the Kirby-Bauer method, were sprayed, after 6 to 7 hr of incubation (37 C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyle VJ,Fancher ME,Ross RW Jr

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of polycations with pendant active groups were synthesized: one is polymethacrylate containing pendant biguanide units, and the other is poly(vinylbenzyl ammonium chloride). The two polycations were found to exhibit higher bactericidal activity against Staphylococcus aureus than the corresponding monomers. F...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ikeda T,Hirayama H,Yamaguchi H,Tazuke S,Watanabe M

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temafloxacin, a new fluoroquinolone, alone or in combination with tobramycin, was compared with penicillin, tobramycin, and their combination in the therapy of rabbits with endocarditis caused by Streptococcus adjacens GaDT, a new species of nutritionally variant streptococci. Animals were injected intramuscularly for...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cremieux AC,Saleh-Mghir A,Vallois JM,Maziere B,Muffat-Joly M,Devine C,Bouvet A,Pocidalo JJ,Carbon C

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) constitute the majority of nosocomial urinary tract infections (UTIs) and pose significant clinical challenges. These infections are polymicrobial in nature and are often associated with multidrug-resistant pathogens, including uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Guiton PS,Cusumano CK,Kline KA,Dodson KW,Han Z,Janetka JW,Henderson JP,Caparon MG,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial cationic peptides are ubiquitous in nature and are thought to be a component of the first line of defense against infectious agents. It is widely believed that the killing mechanism of these peptides on bacteria involves an interaction with the cytoplasmic membrane. Cationic peptides from different struc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Friedrich CL,Moyles D,Beveridge TJ,Hancock RE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized, double-blind trial involving patients with uncomplicated influenza A H3N2 subtype virus infection, rimantadine treatment (200 mg/day for 5 days) was associated with significant reductions in nasal secretion viral titers (days 2 through 4), maximal temperature (days 2 and 3), time until defervescence (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hayden FG,Monto AS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00