Increasing ceftriaxone resistance and multiple alterations of penicillin-binding proteins among penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Taiwan.

abstract：:Early studies of immobilized peptides mainly focused upon the relationship between structural properties and the activity of soluble and surface-tethered sequences. The intention of this study was to analyze the influence of immobilization parameters upon the activity profile of peptides. Resin beads (TentaGel S NH(2)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bagheri M,Beyermann M,Dathe M

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:An innovative liposomal formulation of meglumine antimoniate (LMA) was recently reported to promote both long-term parasite suppression and reduction of infectivity to sand flies in dogs with visceral leishmaniasis. However, 5 months after treatment, parasites were still found in the bone marrow of all treated dogs. I...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： da Silva SM,Amorim IF,Ribeiro RR,Azevedo EG,Demicheli C,Melo MN,Tafuri WL,Gontijo NF,Michalick MS,Frézard F

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rifampin resistance gene, arr-2, has been found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The ARR-2 protein shows 54% amino acid identity to the rifampin ADP-ribosylating transferase encoded by the arr gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis. This arr-2 gene is located on a gene cassette within a class I integron. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tribuddharat C,Fennewald M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistant to either gentamicin or carbenicillin have been noted since their introduction into clinical use. During a 6-month period, twice-weekly cultures were obtained from all patients treated with either gentamicin or carbenicillin and from all patients with a positive culture for ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gaman W,Cates C,Snelling CF,Lank B,Ronald AR

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 8-aminoquinoline tafenoquine showed significant in vitro activity against Leishmania species, including L. donovani amastigotes in macrophages, with 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC(50)s) between 0.1 and 4.0 μM for both pentavalent antimony (SbV)-sensitive and SbV-resistant strains and by oral administration in B...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yardley V,Gamarro F,Croft SL

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:A total of 100 Streptococcus pneumoniae strains with various penicillin G susceptibilities, isolated in Barcelona, Spain, from different pediatric sources during 1983 and the first 4 months of 1984, were tested for susceptibility to tetracycline, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, clindamycin, vancomycin, and rifampin. Th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Latorre C,Juncosa T,Sanfeliu I

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of fluconazole resistance in three clinical isolates of Candida krusei were investigated. Analysis of sterols of organisms grown in the absence and presence of fluconazole demonstrated that the predominant sterol of C. krusei is ergosterol and that fluconazole inhibits 14alpha-demethylase in this organi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Orozco AS,Higginbotham LM,Hitchcock CA,Parkinson T,Falconer D,Ibrahim AS,Ghannoum MA,Filler SG

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new commercial low-density microarray which identifies common extended-spectrum β-lactamase plasmid-mediated cephalosporinase genes, as well as carbapenemase (bla(KPC) and bla(NDM)) genes, was evaluated. We tested 207 clinical and reference/collection isolates of the Enterobacteriaceae possessing different bla genes...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bogaerts P,Hujer AM,Naas T,de Castro RR,Endimiani A,Nordmann P,Glupczynski Y,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 24 patients with hepatitic C virus (HCV) infection who participated in a randomized trial with alpha 2B interferon, HCV RNA analysis by the polymerase chain reaction with two separate primer sets was performed at weeks 0, 4, and 24 and during a follow-up period of 6 to 9 months. Prior to therapy all patients were H...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kleter GE,Brouwer JT,Heijtink RA,Schalm SW,Quint WG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of resistance to last-resort antibiotics was evaluated among Enterobacteriaceae isolates recovered from hospitalized children in a remote African archipelago, São Tomé and Príncipe, where there is limited access to those antibiotics. Fifty patients were screened for colonization by carbapenem-, pan-amin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Poirel L,Aires-de-Sousa M,Kudyba P,Kieffer N,Nordmann P

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:RU44790 belongs to a new class of synthetic monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotics which feature a bioisosteric tetrazole moiety instead of the more classical acidic functions at the N-1 position of the beta-lactam ring. Its antibacterial activity was evaluated against some 900 strains and was compared with those of other...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chantot JF,Klich M,Teutsch G,Bryskier A,Collette P,Markus A,Seibert G

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exogenous control of hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication can be mediated through the inhibition of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) activity of NS5B. Small-molecule inhibitors of NS5B include nucleoside and nonnucleoside analogs. Here, we report the discovery of a novel class of HCV polymerase nonnucleoside...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nyanguile O,Pauwels F,Van den Broeck W,Boutton CW,Quirynen L,Ivens T,van der Helm L,Vandercruyssen G,Mostmans W,Delouvroy F,Dehertogh P,Cummings MD,Bonfanti JF,Simmen KA,Raboisson P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) strains isolated from 2000 to 2008 were characterized by multilocus sequence typing, multiantigen sequence typing, and plasmid typing. Sequence analysis showed that 8 strains contained a TEM-1 beta-lactamase gene. However, two other genetically distinct PPNG str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ohnishi M,Ono E,Shimuta K,Watanabe H,Okamura N

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:The aim of this study was to determine the penetration of doripenem administered intravenously into the rabbit aqueous and vitreous humors. Nineteen New Zealand White rabbits received a 20-mg dose of doripenem intravenously over 60 min. Specimens of aqueous humor, vitreous humor, and blood were obtained 30 min (n = 5)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Semoun O,Marchand S,Grégoire N,Lamarche I,Adier C,Laroche L,Goldschmidt P,Couet W

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is a major life-threatening complication among transplant recipients and patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. In a rat model of progressive pulmonary aspergillosis that is characterized by hyphal bronchopneumonia, aerosol amphotericin B (aero-AmB; 1.6 mg/kg given 2 days before infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schmitt HJ,Bernard EM,Häuser M,Armstrong D

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the activity of delavirdine (DLV) plus zidovudine (AZT) (n = 300) with that of AZT (n = 297) against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. DLV exerted a transient antiviral effect, and mutations for resistance to DLV were found in more than 90% of subj...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Joly V,Moroni M,Concia E,Lazzarin A,Hirschel B,Jost J,Chiodo F,Bentwich Z,Love WC,Hawkins DA,Wilkins EG,Gatell AJ,Vetter N,Greenwald C,Freimuth WW,de Cian W

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The gene ere(A) of the plasmid pIP1100 is larger than originally reported and is organized as an integron gene cassette. The ere(A) gene cassette carries its own promoter and is propagated by a class 2 integron with an insertion sequence element, IS1, inserted upstream of the intI2 gene. The mobility of the ere(A) cas...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Biskri L,Mazel D

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyclovir, known as an antiherpetic agent, showed an inhibitory effect on the propagation of pseudorabies virus in BHK-21 cells. The antiviral effect of acyclovir was observed by plaque reduction, as well as by the inhibition of the virus-stimulated uptake of thymidine by BHK-21 cells. Amphotericin B potentiated the a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malewicz B,Momsen M,Jenkin HM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) isolate was obtained from a patient in Pennsylvania in September 2002. Species identification was confirmed by standard biochemical tests and analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA, gyrA, and gyrB sequences; all of the results were consistent with the S. aureus identification...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tenover FC,Weigel LM,Appelbaum PC,McDougal LK,Chaitram J,McAllister S,Clark N,Killgore G,O'Hara CM,Jevitt L,Patel JB,Bozdogan B

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Compounds that interact with DNA or RNA generally act as inhibitors of enzymes that unwind DNA or RNA. In the present study we describe the synthesis and properties of some nucleoside analogues that interact with double-stranded DNA but that, in contrast, facilitate the unwinding reaction mediated by West Nile (WN) vi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Borowski P,Lang M,Haag A,Schmitz H,Choe J,Chen HM,Hosmane RS

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mepRAB gene cluster of Staphylococcus aureus encodes a MarR family repressor (MepR; known to repress mepA expression), a MATE family multidrug efflux pump (MepA), and a protein of unknown function (MepB). In this report, we show that MepR also is autoregulatory, repressing the expression of its own gene. Exposure ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaatz GW,DeMarco CE,Seo SM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anidulafungin is an echinocandin with activity against Candida species and Aspergillus species. Adult dosages under study are 50 mg/day for esophageal candidiasis and 100 mg/day for invasive candidiasis and aspergillosis. Little is known, however, about the safety and pharmacokinetics of anidulafungin in children. A m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Benjamin DK Jr,Driscoll T,Seibel NL,Gonzalez CE,Roden MM,Kilaru R,Clark K,Dowell JA,Schranz J,Walsh TJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the evolution of resistance to the antifungal drug itraconazole in replicate populations of Aspergillus fumigatus that were founded from a strain with a genotype of sensitivity to a single drug and then propagated under uniform conditions. For each population, conidia were serially transferred 10 times...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： da Silva Ferreira ME,Capellaro JL,dos Reis Marques E,Malavazi I,Perlin D,Park S,Anderson JB,Colombo AL,Arthington-Skaggs BA,Goldman MH,Goldman GH

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic susceptibilities of 43 strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 identified in the summer of 1996 in Japan were investigated. Growth of 90% of O157 strains was inhibited at a concentration of < or = 0.5 micro/ml by several agents including fosfomycin with glucose-6-phosphate. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsuboi I,Ida H,Yoshikawa E,Hiyoshi S,Yamaji E,Nakayama I,Nonomiya T,Shigenobu F,Shimizu M,O'Hara K,Sawai T,Mizuoka K

更新日期：1998-02-01 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