Cytotoxic activity of N-chlorotaurine on Acanthamoeba spp.

abstract：:In this study, the genetic organization of three novel genomic antibiotic resistance islands (AbaRs) in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates belonging to group of European clone II (EC II) comM integrated sequences of 18-, 21-, and 23-kb resistance islands were determined. These resistance islands carry the backbone of Ab...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seputiene V,Povilonis J,Suziedeliene E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of exacerbations of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is highly challenging due to hypermutability, biofilm formation, and an increased risk of resistance emergence. We evaluated the impact of ciprofloxacin and meropenem as monotherapy and in combination in the d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bilal H,Bergen PJ,Tait JR,Wallis SC,Peleg AY,Roberts JA,Oliver A,Nation RL,Landersdorfer CB

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antibiotics have disulfiram-like effects; we evaluated disulfiram for its antibiotic-like effects. Disulfiram inhibited the in vitro growth of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, with an MIC of 1.33 micrograms/ml, but was not effective against members of the family Enterobacteriaceae or Pseudomonas sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Phillips M,Malloy G,Nedunchezian D,Lukrec A,Howard RG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent reports of resistance in Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinin derivatives and their partner drugs demand intensive studies toward understanding the molecular mechanisms of resistance. In this study, we examined the in vitro susceptibility of 63 P. falciparum field isolates collected from the China-Myanmar b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hao M,Jia D,Li Q,He Y,Yuan L,Xu S,Chen K,Wu J,Shen L,Sun L,Zhao H,Yang Z,Cui L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were conducted to better define the mechanism of action of polyethylene hexamethylene biguanide (PEHMB) (designated herein as NB325), which was shown in previous studies to inhibit infection by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Fluorescence-activated flow cytometric analyses of activ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thakkar N,Pirrone V,Passic S,Zhu W,Kholodovych V,Welsh W,Rando RF,Labib ME,Wigdahl B,Krebs FC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to fluoroquinolones is caused predominantly by amino acid substitutions at positions Ser79 of ParC and Ser81 of GyrA to either Phe or Tyr encoded in the quinolone resistance-determining regions of the parC topoisomerase IV and gyrA DNA gyrase genes. Analysis of highly resistant c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Korzheva N,Davies TA,Goldschmidt R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Tat and gp120 intriguingly share the feature of being basic peptides that, once released by HIV(+) cells, bind to polyanionic heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) on target uninfected cells, contributing to the onset of AIDS-associated pathologies. To identify multitarget anti-HIV p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bugatti A,Urbinati C,Ravelli C,De Clercq E,Liekens S,Rusnati M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that in lung tissue, thioridazine accumulates at high concentrations relative to serum levels, displaying modest synergy with isoniazid and reducing the emergence of isoniazid-resistant mutants in mouse lungs. In this study, we sought to investigate the sterilizing activity of human-equivalent dos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dutta NK,Pinn ML,Karakousis PC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2'-Deoxy-2'-fluorocytidine (FdC) is a potent inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus RNA replicon in culture, and FdC-5'-triphosphate is an effective inhibitor of the NS5B polymerase. Dynamic profiling of cell growth in an antiviral assay showed that FdC caused cytostasis due to an S-phase arrest. These observations demons...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stuyver LJ,McBrayer TR,Whitaker T,Tharnish PM,Ramesh M,Lostia S,Cartee L,Shi J,Hobbs A,Schinazi RF,Watanabe KA,Otto MJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tight packing of six fatty acids in the lipid A constituent of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has been proposed to contribute to the unusually low permeability of the outer membrane of gram-negative enteric bacteria to hydrophobic antibiotics. Here it is shown that the Escherichia coli msbB mutant, which elaborates defe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vaara M,Nurminen M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A PCR-based technique using new fluorescent probes, called molecular beacons, was developed to detect the antifolate resistance-associated S108N point mutation in Plasmodium falciparum. One hundred African clinical isolates were tested by the new method in comparison with the PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Durand R,Eslahpazire J,Jafari S,Delabre JF,Marmorat-Khuong A,di Piazza JP,Le Bras J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of these studies was to evaluate the exposures of meropenem and vaborbactam that would produce antibacterial activity and prevent resistance development in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae strains when tested at an inoculum of 108 CFU/ml. Thirtee...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sabet M,Tarazi Z,Rubio-Aparicio D,Nolan TG,Parkinson J,Lomovskaya O,Dudley MN,Griffith DC

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A disk bioassay for determining clindamycin serum levels is presented. This method is rapid (results available in 6.0 to 6.5 h), reliable, and simple to perform. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liberman DF,Fitzgerald J,Robertson RG

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftizoxime, a new cephalosporin, was active against Pseudomonas cepacia, Flavobacterium meningosepticum, Alcaligenes faecalis, and Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and was more potent against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas putida than was carbenicillin. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yabuuchi E,Ito T,Tanimura E,Yamamoto N,Ohyama A

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamine levels are greatly increased in alveolar macrophages (AMs) during Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), leading to increased production of H(2)O(2), which causes AMs to undergo apoptosis. One of the mechanisms by which polyamine levels in AMs are elevated is enhanced uptake of exogenous polyamines. In this study, th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liao CP,Phanstiel O 4th,Lasbury ME,Zhang C,Shao S,Durant PJ,Cheng BH,Lee CH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of an extended-release (XR) formulation of ciprofloxacin has been compared to that of the immediate-release (IR) product in healthy volunteers. The only significant difference in pharmacokinetic parameters between the two formulations was seen in the rate constant of absorption, which was approxim...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meagher AK,Forrest A,Dalhoff A,Stass H,Schentag JJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oseltamivir is the most widely used anti-influenza drug. In the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, in which the influenza viruses were oseltamivir sensitive, obesity was identified as a risk factor for severe disease and unfavorable outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the pharmacokinetic properties of oseltamivir and ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jittamala P,Pukrittayakamee S,Tarning J,Lindegardh N,Hanpithakpong W,Taylor WR,Lawpoolsri S,Charunwattana P,Panapipat S,White NJ,Day NP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotics disrupt the intestinal microbiota, rendering patients vulnerable to colonization by exogenous pathogens. Intermicrobial interactions may attenuate this effect. Incubation with ceftriaxone-resistant, ccrA-positive, β-lactamase-producing Bacteroides strains raised the minimum bactericidal concentration of ce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stiefel U,Tima MA,Nerandzic MM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) of penicillin, ampicillin, cefoxitin, and cefuroxime were determined for 103 beta-lactamase-negative Neisseria gonorrhoeae clinical isolates belonging to five different auxotypes. MBC determinations were base on killing 99.9% of th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Repentigny L,Turgeon PL

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of inhalational combination therapy when treating carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae with newer beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitors has not been established. Using a 72-h in vitro pharmacodynamic chemostat model, we simulated the human exposures achieved in epithelial lini...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Almarzoky Abuhussain SS,Kuti JL,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An observational study assessed the longitudinal use of a new line probe assay for the detection of protease mutations. Probe assays for detection of reverse transcriptase (Inno-LiPA HIV-1 RT; Innogenetics) and protease (prototype kit Inno-LiPA HIV Protease; Innogenetics) mutations gave results for 177 of 199 sequenti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Servais J,Lambert C,Plesséria JM,Fontaine E,Robert I,Arendt V,Staub T,Hemmer R,Schneider F,Schmit JC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After inducing mutagenesis with nitrosoguanidine, we used vancomycin enrichment in isolating auxotrophic mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis. Compared with cycloserine and penicillin G, which are also cell wall inhibitors, vancomycin, with 24 h of exposure, produced less cell lysis and a greater reduction in viable cel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Woodley CL,Baldwin JN,Greenberg J

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusidic acid (FA), which was approved in the 1960s in many European and Asian countries, has gained renewed interest due to its continued effectiveness against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus As rhabdomyolysis has been reported upon coadministration of FA with statins, we aimed to elucidate the underlying ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gupta A,Harris JJ,Lin J,Bulgarelli JP,Birmingham BK,Grimm SW

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We encountered three clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus which were susceptible to netilmicin and arbekacin in the absence of beta-lactam antibiotics but which were resistant to them in the presence of beta-lactam antibiotics. One of these strains, KU5801, was used to further investigate t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ida T,Okamoto R,Nonoyama M,Irinoda K,Kurazono M,Inoue M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonreplicating bacteria are known to be (or at least commonly thought to be) refractory to antibiotics to which they are genetically susceptible. Here, we explore the sensitivity to killing by bactericidal antibiotics of three classes of nonreplicating populations of planktonic bacteria: (i) stationary phase, when the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCall IC,Shah N,Govindan A,Baquero F,Levin BR

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of HIV-infected patients coinfected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is challenging due to drug-drug interactions (DDIs) between antiretrovirals (ARVs) and antituberculosis (anti-TB) drugs. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of cobicistat (COBI) or ritonavir (RTV) in modulating DDIs between daru...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roberts O,Khoo S,Owen A,Siccardi M

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:RBX11160 (OZ277) is a fully synthetic peroxidic antimalarial in clinical development. To study the possible mechanisms of action of RBX11160, we have examined its ability to inhibit PfATP6, a sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase and proposed target for semisynthetic peroxidic artemisinin derivatives. RBX11160 inhibit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Uhlemann AC,Wittlin S,Matile H,Bustamante LY,Krishna S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa 579 biofilms formed on dialysis membranes retarded piperacillin diffusion. Treatment of biofilms with 5.0 mM CaCl2.2H2O prevented diffusion. Biofilms permitted equilibration of [14C]glucose. Thin-layer chromatography of fluids distal to untreated (viable and nonviable) and viable Ca(2+)-treated ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hoyle BD,Alcantara J,Costerton JW

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the relationship between rifampin MICs and rpoB mutations of 40 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A point mutation in either codon 516, 526, or 531 was found in 13 strains requiring MICs of > or = 64 micrograms/ml, while 21 strains requiring MICs of < or = 1 microgram/ml showed no alteration...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ohno H,Koga H,Kohno S,Tashiro T,Hara K

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical pharmacological studies of ticarcillin (alpha-carboxyl-3-thienylmethyl penicillin, BRL-2288) were conducted in patients with metastatic cancer and leukemia. After administration of 0.5 g intramuscularly, 1 g intramuscularly, and 1 g intravenously, the mean peak concentrations in serum were 18, 35, and 106 mug...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodriguez V,Inagaki J,Bodey GP

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00