Intrapulmonary distribution of intravenous telavancin in healthy subjects and effect of pulmonary surfactant on in vitro activities of telavancin and other antibiotics.

abstract：:Echinocandins are a preferred therapy for invasive candidiasis due to their potency and broad spectrum. Resistance, especially in Candida glabrata, is an emerging threat to their use. Pharmacodynamic (PD) studies examining reduced susceptibility secondary to fks mutations in C. glabrata are lacking. The current study ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lepak A,Castanheira M,Diekema D,Pfaller M,Andes D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete and the causative agent of Lyme disease, has been reported to be susceptible to a variety of antimicrobial agents. In this investigation, the action of vancomycin, a glycopeptide antibiotic not previously known to have activity against spirochetes, against borrelias was examined. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dever LL,Jorgensen JH,Barbour AG

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an obligate aerobe, Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses its electron transport chain (ETC) to produce energy via oxidative phosphorylation. This pathway has recently garnered a lot of attention and is a target for several new antimycobacterials. We tested the respiratory adaptation of M. tuberculosis to phenoxyalkylben...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berube BJ,Parish T

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical properties of tetrahydrofuranyl (THF) carbapenems, carbapenems with THF substituents, were evaluated with respect to enzyme stability, binding to penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs), and penetration into gram-negative organisms. THF carbapenems showed increased stability to hog renal dehydropeptidases (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang Y,Testa RT,Bhachech N,Rasmussen BA,Bush K

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple antifungal combinations are used against refractory invasive aspergillosis without an adequate understanding of their pharmacodynamic interactions. We initially studied the in vitro triple combination of voriconazole, amphotericin B, and caspofungin against Aspergillus fumigatus, A. flavus, and A. terreus by a ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meletiadis J,Stergiopoulou T,O'Shaughnessy EM,Peter J,Walsh TJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of pneumonia, meningitis, septicemia, and middle ear infections. The incidence of S. pneumoniae isolates that are not susceptible to penicillin has risen worldwide and may be above 20% in some countries. Beta-lactam antibiotic resistance in pneumococci is associated with sig...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jensen A,Valdórsson O,Frimodt-Møller N,Hollingshead S,Kilian M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid and global emergence of azole resistance in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus has drawn attention. Thus, a thorough understanding of its mechanisms of drug resistance requires extensive exploration. In this study, we found that the loss of the putative calcium-dependent protein-encoding gene algA caus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wei X,Chen P,Gao R,Li Y,Zhang A,Liu F,Lu L

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells exhibit a multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype, indicating that resistance to potentially toxic compounds is mediated by their active efflux from the cell. We have sought to determine whether resistance to azoles in some strains of Candida species may be due in part t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clark FS,Parkinson T,Hitchcock CA,Gow NA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 521 unique clinical isolates from cancer patients with primarily (>90%) bloodstream infections were tested for susceptibility to ceftazidime-avibactam and comparators using broth microdilution methods. Ceftazidime-avibactam inhibited 97.8% of all Enterobacteriaceae (n = 321) at the susceptibility breakpoint...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hachem R,Reitzel R,Rolston K,Chaftari AM,Raad I

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) is the most common mechanism of carbapenem resistance in the United States; however, until now, KPC-producing isolates have not been found in western Michigan. Molecular typing of two KPC-producing K. pneumoniae isolates from Michigan showed their similarity to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitchel B,Sundin DR,Patel JB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of four fluoroquinolone compounds were tested against 92 Escherichia coli strains of ovine and caprine origin under aerobic and anaerobic incubation conditions. The four fluoroquinolones proved to be highly effective against the E. coli isolates tested. When bacteria were cultured anaerobically...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cid D,Piriz S,Ruiz-Santa-Quiteria JA,Valle J,Garcia S,Vadillo S,de la Fuente R

更新日期：1994-10-01 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 objective of the study was to measure antiretroviral exposures in four physiological compartments during pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum. This prospective, open-label, longitudinal study collected paired blood plasma (BP) and genital tract (GT) aspirates antepartum, at delivery, and up to 12 weeks postpartum. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yeh RF,Rezk NL,Kashuba AD,Dumond JB,Tappouni HL,Tien HC,Chen YC,Vourvahis M,Horton AL,Fiscus SA,Patterson KB

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternate therapies are needed for treatment of secondary bacterial pneumonia following influenza. The immunomodulatory peptide P4 has shown promise in mouse models of primary pneumococcal infection. Mice infected with influenza virus and then challenged with Streptococcus pneumoniae were treated with a combination of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weeks JN,Boyd KL,Rajam G,Ades EW,McCullers JA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the genetic environment of mcr-1 in colistin-resistant Escherichia coli strains isolated in Switzerland during 2014 to 2016 from humans (n = 3) and chicken meat (n = 6). Whole-genome and plasmid sequencing identified the mcr-1 gene integrated in IncX4 (of which, one strain carried the mcr-1.2 variant)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Donà V,Bernasconi OJ,Pires J,Collaud A,Overesch G,Ramette A,Perreten V,Endimiani A

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is a serious global health threat for which new treatments are urgently needed. This study examined the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of multiple ascending doses of the oxazolidinone PNU-100480 in healthy volunteers, using biomarkers for safety and efficacy. Subjects were ra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wallis RS,Jakubiec W,Kumar V,Bedarida G,Silvia A,Paige D,Zhu T,Mitton-Fry M,Ladutko L,Campbell S,Miller PF

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuated activity of echinocandin antifungals at high concentrations, known as the "paradoxical effect," is a well-established phenomenon in Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus. In the yeast C. albicans, upregulation of chitin biosynthesis via the protein kinase C (PKC), high-osmolarity glycerol response (HOG...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fortwendel JR,Juvvadi PR,Perfect BZ,Rogg LE,Perfect JR,Steinbach WJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolides are the antimicrobials of choice for treating human campylobacteriosis. The recent emergence of erm(B) in Campylobacter bacteria threatens the utility of this class of antibiotics. Here we report the constitutive and inducible expression of erm(B) in Campylobacter isolates derived from diarrheal patients an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Deng F,Shen J,Zhang M,Wu C,Zhang Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of tryptophan-N-formylated gramicidin (NFG) on the growth of Plasmodium berghei in mice was tested in three different experiments. NFG was shown to be capable of inhibiting the growth of the parasite in a dose-dependent way, although its action did not result in elimination of the parasite and was only temp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Otten-Kuipers MA,Franssen FF,Nieuwenhuijs H,Overdulve JP,Roelofsen B,Op den Kamp JA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PER-1 extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Gram-negative bacilli are resistant to oxyimino-cephalosporins. However, the bla(PER-1) gene has never been reported in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Here, we studied interspecies dissemination of the bla(PER-1) gene by horizontal transfer of Tn1213 among Acinetobacter baumannii,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bae IK,Jang SJ,Kim J,Jeong SH,Cho B,Lee K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ACH-702, a novel isothiazoloquinolone (ITQ), was assessed for antibacterial activity against a panel of Gram-positive and Gram-negative clinical isolates and found to possess broad-spectrum activity, especially against antibiotic-resistant Gram-positive strains, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pucci MJ,Podos SD,Thanassi JA,Leggio MJ,Bradbury BJ,Deshpande M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 266 isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae determined by the agar dilution method showed that 6% of isolates were nonsusceptible to penicillin and 46% was resistant to erythromycin. Of the erythromycin-resistant isolates, 86.3% had the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) resistance...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hsueh PR,Teng LJ,Lee LN,Ho SW,Yang PC,Luh KT

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vesicular stomatitis virus cytopathic effect reduction assay is suitable to quantify polyethylene glycol-alpha interferon 2a (PEG-IFN-alpha 2a) and PEG-IFN-alpha 2b. Human serum and ribavirin did not interfere with the assay. This bioassay was successfully used for assaying PEG-IFN-alpha 2a and PEG-IFN-alpha 2b in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boulestin A,Kamar N,Legrand-Abravanel F,Sandres-Saune K,Alric L,Vinel JP,Rostaing L,Izopet J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of tolerant Streptococcus sanguis and nontolerant Streptococcus mitis infections to penicillin therapy was compared in the rabbit model of endocarditis. The minimal inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of penicillin were 0.1 and 0.1 mug/ml, respectively, for S. mitis and 0.05 and 6.2 mug/ml, respect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lowy FD,Neuhaus EG,Chang DS,Steigbigel NH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the minimum exposure times of prazicuantel (PZQ) and albendazole sulfoxide (ABZSO) required for their activities against Taenia cysts in vitro as well as the 50 and 99% effective concentrations. The results showed that although the effects of both drugs are time and concentration dependent, ABZSO acts ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Palomares F,Palencia G,Pérez R,González-Esquivel D,Castro N,Cook HJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mezlocillin is a new broad-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin that has shown encouraging in vitro activity against the infecting organisms most likely to cause mortality and morbidity in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The serum clearances and urine recoveries of mezlocillin, ampicillin, and carbenicillin were ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Issell BF,Bodey GP,Weaver S

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the in vitro activities of azithromycin, clarithromycin, minocycline, or tigecycline alone and in combination with amphotericin B, itraconazole, terbinafine, voriconazole, anidulafungin, caspofungin, or micafungin against 30 isolates of the oomycete Pythium insidiosum. The assays were based on the CLS...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jesus FP,Ferreiro L,Loreto ÉS,Pilotto MB,Ludwig A,Bizzi K,Tondolo JS,Zanette RA,Alves SH,Santurio JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the spacing of their positive charges, ionenes, a class of quaternary ammonium polymers, increased the interferon-inducing activity of poly(inosinic acid).poly(cytidylic acid) in mouse L-929 cells, whereas they did not enhance poly(inosinic acid).poly(cytidylic acid) induced interferon production in prima...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clercq ED,Janik B,Sommer RG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the activity and safety of liposomal nystatin, a broad-spectrum antifungal agent, for invasive aspergillosis in patients refractory to or intolerant of amphotericin B. Thirty-three patients were enrolled, received at least one dose of the study drug, and were evaluable for safety. Twenty-six patients had c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Offner F,Krcmery V,Boogaerts M,Doyen C,Engelhard D,Ribaud P,Cordonnier C,de Pauw B,Durrant S,Marie JP,Moreau P,Guiot H,Samonis G,Sylvester R,Herbrecht R,EORTC Invasive Fungal Infections Group.

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Cedecea davisae isolate, which was intermediate or resistant to third-generation cephalosporins and carbapenems, was recovered from a urine sample. Susceptibility testing, isoelectric focusing, and analysis of outer membrane proteins showed that AmpC β-lactamase expression combined with porin deficiency accounted fo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ammenouche N,Dupont H,Mammeri H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00