Cyclic tetrapyrrole sulfonation, metals, and oligomerization in antiprion activity.

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：:para-Aminosalicylic acid (PAS) remains one of the drugs of last resort for the treatment of tuberculosis, but its mechanism of action is still not completely understood. The main aim of this project was to identify new potential mechanisms of action and resistance to PAS by performing whole-genome sequencing on PAS-re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Satta G,Witney AA,Begum N,Ortiz Canseco J,Boa AN,McHugh TD

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of vancomycin and teicoplanin alone and in combination with gentamicin or tobramycin were studied by time-kill techniques with 11 strains of pathogenic diphtheroids (Corynebacterium group JK). The activities of vancomycin and teicoplanin were similar (MIC for 90% of strains tested [MIC90], 1 mi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spitzer PG,Eliopoulos GM,Karchmer AW,Moellering RC Jr

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present the biochemical and biological evaluation of N-arylmethyl-substituted iminoribitol derivatives as potential chemotherapeutic agents against trypanosomiasis. Previously, a library of 52 compounds was designed and synthesized as potent and selective inhibitors of Trypanosoma vivax inosine-adeno...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berg M,Kohl L,Van der Veken P,Joossens J,Al-Salabi MI,Castagna V,Giannese F,Cos P,Versées W,Steyaert J,Grellier P,Haemers A,Degano M,Maes L,de Koning HP,Augustyns K

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Occidiofungin is produced by the soil bacterium Burkolderia contaminans MS14 and is structurally similar or identical to the burkholdines, xylocandins, and cepacidines. This study identified the primary cellular target of occidiofungin, which was determined to be actin. The modification of occidiofungin with a functio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ravichandran A,Geng M,Hull KG,Li J,Romo D,Lu SE,Albee A,Nutter C,Gordon DM,Ghannoum MA,Lockless SW,Smith L

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaborbactam (formerly RPX7009) is a member of a new class of β-lactamase inhibitor with pharmacokinetic properties similar to those of many β-lactams, including carbapenems. The pharmacokinetics and safety of vaborbactam were evaluated in 80 healthy adult subjects in a first-in-human randomized, placebo-controlled, do...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Griffith DC,Loutit JS,Morgan EE,Durso S,Dudley MN

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is inherently resistant to a variety of antibiotics including aminoglycosides, macrolides, polymyxins, and beta-lactam antibiotics. Despite resistance to many beta-lactams, ceftazidime and beta-lactamase inhibitor-beta-lactam combinations are commonly used...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tribuddharat C,Moore RA,Baker P,Woods DE

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the population pharmacokinetic parameters of levofloxacin, gatifloxacin, and moxifloxacin following multiple oral doses. Twenty-nine patients with tuberculosis at the University Hospital in Vitória, Brazil, participated. Subjects received multiple doses of one drug (levoflo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Peloquin CA,Hadad DJ,Molino LP,Palaci M,Boom WH,Dietze R,Johnson JL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftibuten (CFB), a new broad-spectrum cephalosporin for oral administration, possesses potent activity in vitro against a wide range of gram-negative and certain gram-positive pathogens frequently encountered in pediatric patients. Its antimicrobial spectrum and dosage formulation suggest a use for CFB in the treatme...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kearns GL,Reed MD,Jacobs RF,Ardite M,Yogev RD,Blumer JL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of amphotericin B, itraconazole, and miconazole against 101 filamentous fungi from patients with cystic fibrosis were tested by a reproducible microdilution method. Itraconazole was very active against Aspergillus species and Scedosporium species (MIC at which 90% of the isolates were inhi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hennequin C,Benailly N,Silly C,Sorin M,Scheinmann P,Lenoir G,Gaillard JL,Berche P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the pharmacokinetic disposition of cefonicid. A single dose of 7.5 mg/kg of body weight was administered to five healthy volunteers as a 5-min intravenous infusion. Multiple plasma and urine samples were collected for 48 h. Peak plasma concentrations ranged from 95 to 156 micrograms/ml and fell s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barriere SL,Hatheway GJ,Gambertoglio JG,Lin ET,Conte JE Jr

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delafloxacin, an investigational anionic fluoroquinolone, is active against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. In this study, 200 Streptococcus pneumoniae (plus 30 levofloxacin-resistant isolates), 200 Haemophilus influenzae, and 100 Moraxella catarrhalis isolates selected primarily from the Un...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Flamm RK,Rhomberg PR,Huband MD,Farrell DJ

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation, 2,4-dinitrophenol, and an aconitase inhibitor, fluoroacetic acid, both of which are known to lower the cellular ATP pool, protected Escherichia coli cells from the bactericidal actions of gyrase poisons including quinolone antibiotics, nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin, and th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li TK,Liu LF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of Staphylococcus aureus strain 8325-4 as a recipient for the transduction of methicillin resistance requires the presence of a penicillinase plasmid but was found to be independent of the lysogenic state of the recipient. Effectiveness is conferred by the plasmid in either the autonomous or integrat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stewart GC,Rosenblum ED

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the potential for the induction of antimicrobial resistance following repeated subinhibitory exposures to the combination minocycline (MIN), rifampin (RIF), and chlorhexidine (CHX), a total of 29 clinical microbial pathogenic isolates were repeatedly exposed to subinhibitory concentrations of MIN, RIF, and C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rosenblatt J,Vargas-Cruz N,Reitzel RA,Raad II

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:T-8581 is a new water-soluble triazole antifungal agent. The geometric mean IC80s (GM-IC80S; where the IC80 is the lowest drug concentration which reduced the optical density at 630 nm by 80% compared with the optical density at 630 nm of the drug-free control) for Candida albicans were as follows: T-8581, 0.218 micro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yotsuji A,Shimizu K,Araki H,Fujimaki K,Nishida N,Hori R,Annen N,Yamamoto S,Hayakawa H,Imaizumi H,Watanbe Y,Narita H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten (0.05%) of 18,628 strains of Streptococcus pyogenes isolated from clinical specimens in the 3 years 1968 to 1970 were resistant to lincomycin and erythromycin. All 10 strains were highly resistant to lincomycin, having minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of 200 mug/ml. There were two degrees of resistanc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dixon JM,Lipinski AE

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SCCmec is a mobile genetic element that carries the gene (mecA) mediating methicillin resistance in staphylococci. For Staphylococcus aureus, four SCCmec types have been described, one (type IV) of which has been associated with newly identified community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus. However, the distribu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wisplinghoff H,Rosato AE,Enright MC,Noto M,Craig W,Archer GL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba are causing serious chronic conditions such as destructive keratitis in contact lens wearers or granulomatous amoebic encephalitis in individuals with compromised immune systems. Both are characterized by the lack of availability of sufficiently effective and uncomplicated...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walochnik J,Duchêne M,Seifert K,Obwaller A,Hottkowitz T,Wiedermann G,Eibl H,Aspöck H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial liquids and foams were applied to the hands to determine their virucidal activity against rhinoviruses. Dilute solutions (1%) of iodine in ethyl alcohol or in water were most effective in causing inactivation of rhinovirus when applied immediately after viral contamination. Iodine also had a residual vir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hendley JO,Mika LA,Gwaltney JM Jr

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) causes disease globally, with an estimated 25 to 100 million new infections per year. At present, no effective vaccine is available, and treatment is supportive. In this study, we identified BP2109, a potent and selective small-molecule inhibitor of the DENV NS2B/NS3 protease, by a high-throughput ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang CC,Hsieh YC,Lee SJ,Wu SH,Liao CL,Tsao CH,Chao YS,Chern JH,Wu CP,Yueh A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal activity of clindamycin, chloramphenicol, and gentamicin alone and of gentamicin plus clindamycin and gentamicin plus chloramphenicol was studied on 8 strains of Escherichia coli and 10 strains of Bacteroides fragilis isolated from clinical material. Gentamicin did not interfere with the activity of c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Klastersky J,Husson M

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated phage therapy in experimental infections due to S242, a fatal neonatal meningitis Escherichia coli strain belonging to the worldwide-distributed O25b:H4-ST131 clone that produces extended-spectrum beta-lactamase CTX-M-15. A lytic phage, EC200(PP), active against S242, was isolated from environmental water...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pouillot F,Chomton M,Blois H,Courroux C,Noelig J,Bidet P,Bingen E,Bonacorsi S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological signal molecule nitric oxide (NO) was found to induce biofilm dispersal across a range of bacterial species, which led to its consideration for therapeutic strategies to treat biofilms and biofilm-related infections. However, biofilms are often not completely dispersed after exposure to NO. To better un...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhu X,Oh HS,Ng YCB,Tang PYP,Barraud N,Rice SA

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chinese traditional medicine mao-bushi-saishin-to (MBST), which has anti-inflammatory effects and has been used to treat the common cold and nasal allergy in Japan, was examined for its effects on the therapeutic activity of a new benzoxazinorifamycin, KRM-1648 (KRM), against Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shimizu T,Tomioka H,Sato K,Sano C,Akaki T,Dekio S,Yamada Y,Kamei T,Shibata H,Higashi N

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial drug nalidixic acid (Nal) can suppress the growth of Candida albicans at levels of the drug normally found in urine. Growth suppression increases as drug levels are increased, and Nal also causes a similar proportional inhibition of the synthesis of all cellular macromolecules. However, growth temper...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sobieski RJ,Brewer AR

更新日期：1976-03-01 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：:We have reported previously that methylenecyclopropane analogs of nucleosides have excellent activity against certain members of the herpesvirus family. A second generation, the 2,2-bis-hydroxymethyl derivatives, were synthesized, and 18 compounds were tested for activity in vitro against herpes simplex virus types 1 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kern ER,Kushner NL,Hartline CB,Williams-Aziz SL,Harden EA,Zhou S,Zemlicka J,Prichard MN

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 20 nucleoside analogs were examined for their inhibitory effects on the cytopathogenicity and growth of influenza virus type A, B, and C strains in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Among the compounds evaluated, pyrazofurin, 3-deazaguanine, ribavirin, carbodine, and cyclopentenyl cytosine inhibited vir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shigeta S,Konno K,Yokota T,Nakamura K,De Clercq E

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00