Role of a sodium-dependent symporter homologue in the thermosensitivity of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance and cell wall composition in Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:We found that cells of Vibrio parahaemolyticus possess an energy-dependent efflux system for norfloxacin. We cloned a gene for a putative norfloxacin efflux protein from the chromosomal DNA of V. parahaemolyticus by using an Escherichia coli mutant lacking the major multidrug efflux system AcrAB as the host and sequen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morita Y,Kodama K,Shiota S,Mine T,Kataoka A,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas R factor RP1 determines an inducible tetracycline resistance similar to that described for Escherichia coli R factors. The level of RP1-determined resistance measured by minimal inhibitory concentration testing is dependent on the host bacteria and corresponds to the magnitude of decrease in tetracycli...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shipley PL,Olsen RH

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of antichagasic benznidazole (BZL; 100 mg/kg body weight/day, 3 consecutive days, intraperitoneally) on biotransformation systems and ABC transporters was evaluated in rats. Expression of cytochrome P-450 (CYP3A), UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT1A), glutathione S-transferases (alpha glutathione S-transfera...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perdomo VG,Rigalli JP,Villanueva SS,Ruiz ML,Luquita MG,Echenique CG,Catania VA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycograb (NeuTec Pharma plc) is a human genetically recombinant antibody against fungal heat shock protein 90 (HSP90). Antibody to HSP90 is closely associated with recovery in patients with invasive candidiasis who are receiving amphotericin B (AMB). Using in vitro assays developed for efficacy assessment of chemother...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Matthews RC,Rigg G,Hodgetts S,Carter T,Chapman C,Gregory C,Illidge C,Burnie J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxycycline is reported to impair second-generation parasite schizogony. The effects of doxycycline alone and combined with dihydroartemisinin were investigated in a murine malaria model. Doxycycline lowered the rate of parasite growth within 2 days, with maximum effect in 6 days. Addition of dihydroartemisinin led to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Batty KT,Law AS,Stirling V,Moore BR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data on carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria on the African continent are limited. Here, we report the identification of VIM-2-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in Tanzania. Eight out of 90 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from a tertiary care hospital in Dar es Salaam were shown to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moyo S,Haldorsen B,Aboud S,Blomberg B,Maselle SY,Sundsfjord A,Langeland N,Samuelsen Ø

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse model was developed to evaluate the efficacy of antibiotic treatment of pneumonic plague; streptomycin was compared to antibiotics with which there is little or no clinical experience. Infection was induced by inhalation of aerosolized Yersinia pestis organisms. Antibiotics were administered by intraperitoneal...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Byrne WR,Welkos SL,Pitt ML,Davis KJ,Brueckner RP,Ezzell JW,Nelson GO,Vaccaro JR,Battersby LC,Friedlander AM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefiderocol is a siderophore cephalosporin active against many multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative pathogens. We examined the resistance mechanisms in 12 Acinetobacter baumannii strains with cefiderocol MICs ranging from ≤0.03 to >32 μg/ml. Cefiderocol resistance could not be explained by β-lactamase activity. Cef...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malik S,Kaminski M,Landman D,Quale J

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical constants and some structural parameters (topological, steric, and electronic) of eight third-generation monofluorate quinolones (six uncommercialized and two used clinically [ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin]) were determined: pKa, intrinsic solubility (S0), chromatographic capacity factor, partitio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Escribano E,Calpena AC,Garrigues TM,Freixas J,Domenech J,Moreno J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TP-434 is a novel, broad-spectrum fluorocycline antibiotic with activity against bacteria expressing major antibiotic resistance mechanisms, including tetracycline-specific efflux and ribosomal protection. The mechanism of action of TP-434 was assessed using both cell-based and in vitro assays. In Escherichia coli cel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grossman TH,Starosta AL,Fyfe C,O'Brien W,Rothstein DM,Mikolajka A,Wilson DN,Sutcliffe JA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrolide resistance gene erm(T) was identified for the first time in a porcine Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae isolate from swine in China. The novel 3,749-bp small plasmid pER29, which carries erm(T), had a G+C content of 31% and four distinct open reading frames. The presence of pER29 increased by at least 128-fol...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xu CW,Zhang AY,Yang CM,Pan Y,Guan ZB,Lei CW,Peng LY,Li QZ,Wang HN

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levofloxacin is increasingly used in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). There are limited pediatric pharmacokinetic data to inform dose selection for children. Children routinely receiving levofloxacin (250-mg adult tablets) for MDR-TB prophylaxis or disease in Cape Town, South Africa, underwe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Denti P,Garcia-Prats AJ,Draper HR,Wiesner L,Winckler J,Thee S,Dooley KE,Savic RM,McIlleron HM,Schaaf HS,Hesseling AC

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of the daclatasvir (DCV [BMS-790052]) resistance barrier on authentic or hybrid replicons containing NS5A from hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes 1 to 6 (GT-1 to -6) was completed using a replicon elimination assay. The data indicated that genotype 1b (GT-1b) has the highest relative resistance barrier and...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang C,Jia L,O'Boyle DR 2nd,Sun JH,Rigat K,Valera L,Nower P,Huang X,Kienzle B,Roberts S,Gao M,Fridell RA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ganciclovir [9-(1,3-dihydroxy-2-propoxymethyl)guanine] on herpes simplex virus type 1 DNA and protein synthesis was studied. Ganciclovir markedly inhibited the synthesis of viral DNA and gamma proteins in a dose-dependent manner. However, the synthesis of viral beta proteins was significantly increased b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chun YS,Park NH

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Proteus strains are usually resistant to colistin. We have observed an increase in the level of colistin resistance in four clinical isolates of P. vulgaris, P. morganii, and P. rettgeri by prior treatment with subinhibitory concentrations of the drug. The enhanced resistance in these strains was lost after ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shimizu S,Iyobe S,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the primary etiologic agent responsible for the AIDS pandemic. In this work, we used a chimeric recombinant protein strategy to test the possibility of irreversibly destroying the HIV-1 virion using an agent that simultaneously binds the Env protein and viral membrane. We construc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Contarino M,Bastian AR,Kalyana Sundaram RV,McFadden K,Duffy C,Gangupomu V,Baker M,Abrams C,Chaiken I

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The killing of Candida albicans by a series of amphiphilic quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) with different hydrocarbon chain lengths was closely related to the binding of the compounds to the cells and damage of the cell membranes. The membrane damage was measured as the level of release of the UV-absorbing materi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ahlström B,Chelminska-Bertilsson M,Thompson RA,Edebo L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VX-787 is a novel inhibitor of influenza virus replication that blocks the PB2 cap-snatching activity of the influenza viral polymerase complex. Viral genetics and X-ray crystallography studies provide support for the idea that VX-787 occupies the 7-methyl GTP (m(7)GTP) cap-binding site of PB2. VX-787 binds the cap-bi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Byrn RA,Jones SM,Bennett HB,Bral C,Clark MP,Jacobs MD,Kwong AD,Ledeboer MW,Leeman JR,McNeil CF,Murcko MA,Nezami A,Perola E,Rijnbrand R,Saxena K,Tsai AW,Zhou Y,Charifson PS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Carba NP test was evaluated against a panel of 244 carbapenemase- and non-carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. We confirmed the 100% specificity and positive predictive value of the test, but the sensitivity and negative predictive value were 72.5% and 69.2%, respectively...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tijet N,Boyd D,Patel SN,Mulvey MR,Melano RG

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B colloidal dispersion (ABCD) is a new formulation of conventional amphotericin B designed to minimize drug distribution in the kidney and reduce nephrotoxicity. We studied the safety and efficacy of ABCD in 133 renally compromised patients with invasive fungal infections. Patients had either nephrotoxici...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Anaissie EJ,Mattiuzzi GN,Miller CB,Noskin GA,Gurwith MJ,Mamelok RD,Pietrelli LA

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：:WCK 5222 consists of cefepime combined with zidebactam, a bicyclo-acyl hydrazide β-lactam enhancer antibiotic with a dual action involving binding to Gram-negative bacterial PBP2 and β-lactamase inhibition. We evaluated the in vitro activity of cefepime-zidebactam against 7,876 contemporary (2015) clinical isolates of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sader HS,Castanheira M,Huband M,Jones RN,Flamm RK

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen and leading cause of health care-associated infections. Daily chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing of patients is generally regarded as an effective strategy to reduce the occurrence of health care-associated infections. It is likely that E. faecalis is frequently ex...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li FJ,Palmer KL

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four infants and children ranging in age from 2.5 to 180 months (mean, 40 months) were treated with parenteral moxalactam (150 mg/kg per day) for suspected or proved bacterial infections outside the central nervous system. Six patients infected with Haemophilus influenzae b, nine infected with Staphylococcus au...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Keyserling H,Feldman WE,Moffitt S,Manning N,Hollins M

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia marcescens S-95, which displayed an unusually high degree of resistance to aminoglycosides, including kanamycins and gentamicins, was isolated in 2002 from a patient in Japan. The resistance was mediated by a large plasmid which was nonconjugative but transferable to an Escherichia coli recipient by transform...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Doi Y,Yokoyama K,Yamane K,Wachino J,Shibata N,Yagi T,Shibayama K,Kato H,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylene blue (MB) represents a promising antimalarial drug candidate for combination therapies against drug-resistant parasite strains. To support and facilitate the application of MB in future field trials, we studied its antiparasitic effects in vitro. MB is active against all blood stages of both chloroquine (CQ)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Akoachere M,Buchholz K,Fischer E,Burhenne J,Haefeli WE,Schirmer RH,Becker K

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluconazole, an inhibitor of certain human cytochrome P-450 isozymes, is used for the prevention and treatment of a broad range of fungal infections that predominantly affect immunocompromised individuals. This study evaluated the influence of fluconazole on the steady-state pharmacokinetics of delavirdine, a nonnucle...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Borin MT,Cox SR,Herman BD,Carel BJ,Anderson RD,Freimuth WW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to the recently approved nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) rilpivirine (RPV) commonly involves substitutions at positions E138K and K101E in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT), together with an M184I substitution that is associated with resistance to coutilized emtricitabine (FTC). Previou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xu HT,Colby-Germinario SP,Huang W,Oliveira M,Han Y,Quan Y,Petropoulos CJ,Wainberg MA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ColE1 plasmids are small mobilizable replicons that play an important role in the spread of antibiotic resistance in Pasteurellaceae In this study, we describe how a natural single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) near the origin of replication of the ColE1-type plasmid pB1000 found in a Pasteurella multocida clinical is...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Santos-Lopez A,Bernabe-Balas C,Ares-Arroyo M,Ortega-Huedo R,Hoefer A,San Millan A,Gonzalez-Zorn B

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:For 177 gram-negative isolates, the MICs for ciprofloxacin ranged from 0.02 microgram/ml (Escherichia coli) to 0.31 microgram/ml (Pseudomonas aeruginosa). In time-kill curves, ciprofloxacin at 8 X the MIC almost completely killed 10(6) CFU of P. aeruginosa by 24 h. Ciprofloxacin at 4 X the MIC allowed bacterial regrow...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rudin JE,Norden CW,Shinners EM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00