Treatment of experimental ascending Escherichia coli pyelonephritis with ceftriaxone alone and in combination with gentamicin.

abstract：:This study was performed in female B6C3F1 mice to confirm previously observed effects of selected cephalosporin antibiotics on nonspecific immunity, and to determine possible effects on specific acquired immunity and host resistance. Mice were treated intravenously with DQ-2556, ceftizoxime or ceftezole at 800 mg/kg/d...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Furuhama K,Benson RW,Knowles BJ,Roberts DW

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that a variety of anticancer drugs exert their cytotoxic activity by a free-radical-mediated mechanism. These drugs include anthracyclines such as adriamycin, daunorubicin, 4-epi-adriblastin as well as bleomycin, procarbazine, vincristin, cyclophosphamide, etoposide and mitomycin C. The aim of this s...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Look MP,Musch E

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postantibiotic effects were induced in three Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains after short-term treatment (30 min) with amikacin at suprainhibitory concentrations in the range of 0.6-1.2 h (2 x MIC) and of 3.0-4.4 h (4 x MIC). Significant suppression of P. aeruginosa elastase activity was found after treatment with amika...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Hostacká A,Karelová E

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The discovery of mutations in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has dramatically changed the treatment of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. EGFR-targeted therapies show considerable promise, but drug resistance has become a substantial issue...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Tetsu O,Hangauer MJ,Phuchareon J,Eisele DW,McCormick F

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that long-term treatment with clarithromycin (CAM) increased the median survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, and improved various clinical parameters in these patients. In the present study, CAM was administered to 33 patients with unresectable primary non-small cell lung c...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Sakamoto M,Mikasa K,Majima T,Hamada K,Konishi M,Maeda K,Kita E,Narita N

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A-56619 and A-56620 are two new quinolone compounds that are currently being studied. They were found to be active against multi-resistant and routine isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, enterobacteria, aminoglycoside-sensitive and resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Most of the enterobacteria were inhibited b...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Fernandes CJ,Wilson RD,Ackerman VP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial activity of tobramycin, gentamicin, erythromycin, cloxacillin, kanamycin, cephalexin, penicillin, carbenicillin and polymyxin were compared against 303 clinical bacterial isolates from a pediatric hospital patient population. Standard disk diffusion and agar-dilution methods were employed. Significan...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Laxer RM,Mackay E,Marks MI

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifampicin (RMP) and two riminophenazine compounds (B663 and B1912) suppressed the growth of Mycobacterium marinum in vitro and in a mouse footpad infection. At appropriate concentrations and dietary dosage, all three drugs showed bactericidal activity in vitro and in vivo. On the basis of minimum inhibitory concentra...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Banerjee DK,Holmes IB

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutropenia induced by intensive chemotherapy and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation are increasingly commonly complicated by fungal infections; thus prophylaxis may be justified. The authors surveyed the literature and culled their experience - few randomized trials have been done and definitions have often been ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Denning DW,Donnelly JP,Hellreigel KP,Ito J,Martino P,van't Wout JW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the antibacterial activity of the new penem antibiotic Men 10700 against a total of 740 gram-positive and gram-negative clinical isolates, in comparison to imipenem, meropenem, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and gentamicin. Men 10700 has shown a wide spectrum of antibacterial activity, with a po...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Varotto F,Parravidini E,De Luca M,Casini A,Fraschini F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective clinical evaluation to assess the efficacy of a 1-gram once-daily regimen of intravenously administered ceftriaxone in the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections. Of the 250 patients studied, 167 had infections of the lower respiratory tract, approximately 70% of which were diagnos...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Brown R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial endotoxin is known to act as a potent trigger of disseminated coagulation and septic shock. During clinical antibiotic treatment, endotoxin may be released from Gram-negative bacteria. It is known that antibiotic classes differ in their ability to induce endotoxin release. AIM:It was the aim of th...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Trautmann M,Scheibe C,Wellinghausen N,Holst O,Lepper PM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gallbladder cancer is a common and lethal digestive malignancy which is nonsensitive to routine chemotherapy. Doxorubicin (DOX) is one of the major chemotherapeutic drugs for patients with gallbladder cancer. We tried to evaluate if combined use of somatostatin (SST) and DOX could have synergistic effect in ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Quan ZW,Yue JN,Li JY,Qin YY,Guo RS,Li SG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis is one of the important health problems for both humans and animals in Turkey since agriculture and stock raising appears to be the most important means of subsistence. Investigations on the pathogenesis of brucellosis reveal that the etiologic agent can survive in phagocytic cells, and cell-medi...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Dizer U,Hayat L,Beker CM,Görenek L,Ozgüven V,Pahsa A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of perioperative prophylaxis in gallbladder surgery was examined in two prospective randomized studies with a total of 326 patients. Postoperative wound-healing impairments did not occur in any of the patients receiving a single preoperative application of an antibiotic with a high biliary elimination rate...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Harnoss BM,Hirner A,Dibbelt H,Häring R,Rodloff R,Lode H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of low concentrations of various antimicrobial agents on the adherence of mucoid Staphylococcus epidermidis to intraocular lenses was investigated. Adherent growth of S. epidermidis on to polymethylmethacrylate lenses was greatly diminished by ciprofloxacin and clindamycin (>75%), followed by ceftazidime ( ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Kadry AA,Tawfik A,Abu El-Asrar AA,Shibl AM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of resistance patterns of strains of bacteria to antibiotics in different regions of a country and, if possible, comparing them at international level appears to be a useful exercise. The patterns of resistance during 1968-71 revealed an increasing resistance for most antibiotics with an unexpected increase ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Driessen JH

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifaximin matches the criteria for an ideal agent for the treatment of infectious diarrhea. It has excellent activity against a broad range of enteropathogens. It is nonabsorbable, which may help explain its excellent side effect profile and lack of emergence of resistance because of high stool levels that are not lik...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Ericsson CD,DuPont HL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After metabolization, erdosteine (a mucoactive drug) produces an active metabolite (Met I) with an SH group that is capable of opening disulphide bonds, including those of pilin, a protein of bacterial fimbriae. This induces stereochemical conformational changes that interfere with the binding of bacterial adhesins (f...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Braga PC,Zuccotti T,Dal Sasso M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cephalosporins do not reach active therapeutical concentrations in the prostatic tissue in patients suffering from chronic bacterial prostatitis. Cefoperazone is an exception. Its efficacy in the treatment of chronic bacterial prostatitis in 20 patients was studied and the concentrations, obtained after intramuscular ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Melloni D,Ammatuna P,Formica P,Falletta V,Gaglio F,Cacciatore M,Messina G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare incidences of hypersensitivity reaction (HSR) between original and generic taxanes including paclitaxel and docetaxel. METHODS:We conducted a prospective study enrolling all patients receiving taxanes at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Taxanes were infused accordingly to the step-wise rate esc...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Ratanajarusiri T,Sriuranpong V,Sitthideatphaiboon P,Poovoravan N,Vinayanuwat C,Parinyanitikul N,Angspatt P,Thawinwisan W,Tanasanvimon S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of action of 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) was studied in three isolates of pathogenic Aspergillus with varying degrees of susceptibility to the drug. Distribution studies showed that susceptibility or resistance to 5-FC was not dependent on uptake of the drug. While only a small percentage of the total 5-FC taken ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Wagner GE,Shadomy S

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the dramatic situation of malaria in Africa, there is an urgent need to find new and cheap drugs, such as herbal medicines. Here we report the study of the in vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity of Momordica balsamina alone or in a traditional mixture used in Niger. METHODS:Extracts were obta...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Benoit-Vical F,Grellier P,Abdoulaye A,Moussa I,Ousmane A,Berry A,Ikhiri K,Poupat C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies are presented on the in vitro phagocytic activity of rat and human polymorphonuclear leukocytes exposed in vivo to therapeutic concentrations of doxycycline. A 32P-labelled strain of Escherichia coli served as test microbe. No significant reduction of ingestion was observed although untreated AB leukocytes tes...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Melby K,Midtvedt T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty Pseudomonas maltophilia isolates were examined for susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics, including carbapenems, and for beta-lactamase production. All the isolates were resistant to imipenem (MICs 64-512 mg/l) and to a lesser extent, to meropenem (MICs 16-256 mg/l). None of the isolates produced significan...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Cullmann W,Dick W

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of ofloxacin for the treatment of lower respiratory tract infection was evaluated in aged patients with chronic lung disease. Results are the following: improvement of leukocytosis and arterial oxygen tension was observed; peripheral blood cell analysis showed a decrease in natural killer cell counts and ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Yamaoka M,Fukuchi Y,Yokouchi M,Teramoto N,Nagase T,Ishida K,Ohtomo E,Orimo H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis plays an important role as a pathogen in polymicrobial infections. We evaluated the efficacy of cefozopran (CZOP) using polymicrobial pyometra rats. Rats were infected with a mixed intrauterine inoculation of E. faecalis plus either Bacteroides fragilis or Prevotella bivia (minimal inhibitory con...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Mikamo H,Kawazoe K,Sato Y,Izumi K,Tamaya T

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiological properties of cephapirin, a new semisynthetis cephalosporin, have been studied. This antibiotic, if compared with ampicillin, shows a greater activity against gram positive bacteria, a lack of sensitivity to staphlococcal beta-lactamase, and a lower sensitivity to those produced by gram-negative ba...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Renzini G,Ravagnan G,Oliva B

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of enterococcal infections is often difficult because of intrinsic and acquired resistance to a variety of antimicrobial agents. Between January 1993 and May 1997, enterococci were isolated from blood cultures of 117 patients at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University Hospital Eppend...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Elsner HA,Sobottka I,Feucht HH,Claussen M,Kaulfers PM,Laufs R,Mack D

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Without treatment all mice died after receiving 10(3) Klebsiella pneumoniae by intraperitoneal injection. Nevertheless, it was possible to delay treatment for 12 h and still observe a therapeutic response from im gentamicin (5 mg/kg). This gave initial serum concentrations comparable to clinical levels, which fell rap...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Queiroz ML,Bathirunathan N,Mawer GE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00