Prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants QnrA, QnrB, and QnrS among clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae in a Taiwanese hospital.

abstract：:Combination antiretroviral therapy has achieved dramatic reductions in the mortality and morbidity in people with HIV-1 infection. Darunavir (DRV) represents a most efficacious and well-tolerated protease inhibitor (PI) with a high genetic barrier to the emergence of drug-resistant HIV-1. However, highly DRV-resistant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Takamatsu Y,Aoki M,Bulut H,Das D,Amano M,Sheri VR,Kovari LC,Hayashi H,Delino NS,Ghosh AK,Mitsuya H

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A "plasmid-curing effect" of multiresistant Escherichia coli by flavophospholipol, an antibiotic used as an antimicrobial growth promoter (AMGP) in animal feeds, has been reported to occur in vitro and in vivo under experimental conditions. In this study, the effect of flavophospholipol under field conditions was stud...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： van den Bogaard AE,Hazen M,Hoyer M,Oostenbach P,Stobberingh EE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kingella kingae is the major pathogen causing osteoarticular infections (OAI) in young children in numerous countries. Plasmid-borne TEM-1 penicillinase production has been sporadically detected in a few countries but not in continental Europe, despite a high prevalence of K. kingae infections. We describe here for th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Basmaci R,Bidet P,Berçot B,Jost C,Kwon T,Gaumetou E,Bonacorsi S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected from eight patients in five German hospitals were investigated. Six isolates produced the OXA-48 carbapenemase, and three isolates produced OXA-162, which is a point mutant form of OXA-48. Both carbapenemase genes were located on IncL/M-type conjugative p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pfeifer Y,Schlatterer K,Engelmann E,Schiller RA,Frangenberg HR,Stiewe D,Holfelder M,Witte W,Nordmann P,Poirel L

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of colistin resistance (Col(r)) in Acinetobacter baumannii was studied by selecting in vitro Col(r) derivatives of the multidrug-resistant A. baumannii isolate AB0057 and the drug-susceptible strain ATCC 17978, using escalating concentrations of colistin in liquid culture. DNA sequencing identified mutat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adams MD,Nickel GC,Bajaksouzian S,Lavender H,Murthy AR,Jacobs MR,Bonomo RA

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Although antimicrobial agents are effective therapy for early Lyme disease, optimal treatment schedules have not been conclusively established. The efficacy of various dosages of eight antibiotics used for borreliosis treatment was evaluated for C3H/HeNCrIBR mice, which reproducibly develop persistent infection, arthr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moody KD,Adams RL,Barthold SW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the polymyxin receptor molecules in the membranes of living microorganisms, fusion of intact Acholeplasma laidlawii B with lipid vesicles was investigated according to the procedure of Grant and McConnell (1973). The naturally polymyxin-resistant A. laidlawii B was treated with phospholipid vesicles prepar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Teuber M,Bader J

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-performance liquid chromatography was used to determine the penetration of 19 antimicrobial agents into human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The ratios of the intracellular concentration to the extracellular concentration of ampicillin, piperacillin, cefazolin, ceftizoxime, cefpimizole, and ceftazidime were all le...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koga H

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many gram-negative bacteria are known to be remarkably resistant to hydrophobic noxious agents by virtue of their outer membranes (OM). We investigated, by using four different assay methods, the ability of sodium hexametaphosphate (HMP) to disrupt this OM barrier. (i) In the growth inhibition assay, HMP was found to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vaara M,Jaakkola J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of 6,156 sequences from 4,183 persons, the top 30 patterns of protease inhibitor, nucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitor, and nonnucleoside RT inhibitor mutations accounted for 55, 46, and 66%, respectively, of sequences with drug resistance mutations. Characterization of the phenotypic and clinic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rhee SY,Liu T,Ravela J,Gonzales MJ,Shafer RW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated mutant YM644, which showed elevated resistance to norfloxacin, ethidium bromide, acriflavine, and rhodamine 6G, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa YM64, a strain that lacks four major multidrug efflux pumps. The genes responsible for the resistance were mexHI-opmD. Elevated ethidium extrusion was observed with ce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sekiya H,Mima T,Morita Y,Kuroda T,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic Gram-negative pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, known for its intrinsic and acquired antibiotic resistance, has a notorious ability to form biofilms, which often facilitate chronic infections. The evolutionary paths to antibiotic resistance have mainly been investigated in planktonic cultures and are ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ahmed MN,Porse A,Sommer MOA,Høiby N,Ciofu O

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae mainly involves stepwise mutations predominantly in the parC and gyrA genes. We have developed a single-run real-time PCR assay for detection of the four most common mutations in the quinolone resistance-determining regions of these genes. This assay provides a us...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Page S,Vernel-Pauillac F,O'Connor O,Bremont S,Charavay F,Courvalin P,Goarant C,Le Hello S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of tedizolid and 10 antistaphylococcal agents were compared against 111 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains from 14 epidemiologically characterized groups. Tedizolid, tigecycline, and daptomycin were the most potent agents, with tedizolid 4-fold more potent than linezolid...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thomson KS,Goering RV

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Cladosporium trichoides and Sporothrix schenckii are fungi known to be pathogenic for man. No effective chemotherapy is available for cladosporiosis, and systemic sporotrichosis can be very resistant to antifungal chemotherapy. Experimental infections of mice with these fungi resembled their respective infections in m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Block ER,Jennings AE,Bennett JE

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the ability of antimicrobial agents that act on the cell wall to kill enterococci and found defective killing (a minimal bactericidal concentration/minimal inhibitory concentration ratio of greater than or equal to 32) with both beta-lactams (penicillin G and cephalothin) and non-beta-lactams (vancomycin, cy...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Krogstad DJ,Pargwette AR

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and evolution of the class A OXY beta-lactamase from Klebsiella oxytoca were investigated and compared to housekeeping gene diversity. The entire bla(OXY) coding region was sequenced in 18 clinical isolates representative of the four K. oxytoca beta-lactamase gene groups bla(OXY-1) to bla(OXY-4) and of t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fevre C,Jbel M,Passet V,Weill FX,Grimont PA,Brisse S

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:Eravacycline (TP-434 or 7-fluoro-9-pyrrolidinoacetamido-6-demethyl-6-deoxytetracycline) is a novel fluorocycline that was evaluated for antimicrobial activity against panels of recently isolated aerobic and anaerobic Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Eravacycline showed potent broad-spectrum activity against 9...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sutcliffe JA,O'Brien W,Fyfe C,Grossman TH

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftolozane-tazobactam, a combination of the novel antipseudomonal cephalosporin ceftolozane and the well-established extended-spectrum β-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam, is approved for treating complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI) and complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI) in adults. To determine doses ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Larson KB,Patel YT,Willavize S,Bradley JS,Rhee EG,Caro L,Rizk ML

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of SM-1213 [1,2-O-isopropylidene-3-O-3'-(N', N'-dimethylamino-n-propyl)-D-glucofuranose] on the candidastatic and candidacidal capacity of guinea pig peritoneal exudate cells was investigated. Phagocytes treated with SM-1213 demonstrated an enhanced ability to inhibit intracellular hyphal formation and elon...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morrison CJ,Gordon P,Hashimoto T

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of oral LY217896 for prevention of experimental influenza A/Kawasaki/86 (H1N1) virus infection were assessed in susceptible males randomly assigned to receive LY217896 (75 mg) or placebo once daily for 7 days beginning 24 h prior to viral challenge. The rates of virus shedding (100% in both gro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hayden FG,Tunkel AR,Treanor JJ,Betts RF,Allerheiligen S,Harris J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of treatment-experienced human immunodeficiency virus patients has become complex, and therapy may need to include two protease inhibitors at therapeutic doses. The objective of this study was to characterize the pharmacokinetics in serum of saquinavir (1,000 mg twice daily [b.i.d.]), lopinavir (400 mg b.i....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ribera E,Lopez RM,Diaz M,Pou L,Ruiz L,Falcó V,Crespo M,Azuaje C,Ruiz I,Ocaña I,Clotet B,Pahissa A

更新日期：2004-11-01 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 comparative evaluation of daptomycin and eight other antimicrobial agents was performed by the agar dilution technique with 56 strains of vancomycin-resistant gram-positive bacteria, including Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus spp. Erythromycin, deptomycin, clindamycin, and gentamicin exhibited the greates...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de la Maza L,Ruoff KL,Ferraro MJ

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:The nucleoside analogues acyclovir (ACV) and famciclovir (FCV) reduce the frequency and severity of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) genital shedding, yet despite their high potency in vitro and a lack of induced drug resistance, frequent episodes of breakthrough mucosal shedding occur. We tested a published stochastic,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schiffer JT,Swan DA,Corey L,Wald A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the clinical correlates of the reference antifungal susceptibility test results in hematogenous and deep-seated Candida infection are still controversial, we evaluated the clinical correlates of this test in deep-seated Candida infections in non-AIDS patients. Thirty-two non-AIDS patients with hematogenous or...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee SC,Fung CP,Huang JS,Tsai CJ,Chen KS,Chen HY,Lee N,See LC,Shieh WB

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00