Effects of various media on the activity of NXL103 (formerly XRP 2868), a new oral streptogramin, against Haemophilus influenzae.

abstract：:To compare the in vitro antibacterial efficacies and resistance profiles of rifampin-based combinations against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a biofilm model, the antibacterial activities of vancomycin, teicoplanin, daptomycin, minocycline, linezolid, fusidic acid, fosfomycin, and tigecycline a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tang HJ,Chen CC,Cheng KC,Wu KY,Lin YC,Zhang CC,Weng TC,Yu WL,Chiu YH,Toh HS,Chiang SR,Su BA,Ko WC,Chuang YC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacies of ciprofloxacin and ampicillin against Listeria monocytogenes in an immunosuppressed mouse model of listeriosis were compared. Immunosuppression was achieved by administration of 2.5 mg of hydrocortisone acetate daily. Both ciprofloxacin and ampicillin were effective in reducing the number of viable L....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： van Ogtrop ML,Mattie H,Sekh BR,van Strijen E,van Furth R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) has important sterilizing activity in tuberculosis (TB) chemotherapy. We describe trends, risk factors, and molecular epidemiology associated with PZA-resistant (PZA(r)) Mycobacterium tuberculosis in New York City (NYC). From 2001 to 2008, all incident culture-positive TB cases reported by the NYC D...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verdugo D,Fallows D,Ahuja S,Schluger N,Kreiswirth B,Mathema B

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TEM-28 (pI 6.1), expressed by an Escherichia coli clinical isolate, is a novel beta-lactamase which hydrolyzed ceftazidime, cefotaxime, and aztreonam with rates of 25, 1.1, and 5.6, respectively, relative to that for benzylpenicillin (100). The nucleotide sequence of blaTEM-28 differed from that of blaTEM-1 by two bas...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bradford PA,Jacobus NV,Bhachech N,Bush K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) is a group of bacterial pathogens that are highly antibiotic resistant and associated with debilitating respiratory infections. Although bacteriophages of the BCC have been isolated and characterized, no studies have yet examined phage therapy against the BCC in vivo. In a caterp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seed KD,Dennis JJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telavancin displays potent in vitro and in vivo activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), including strains with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin. We compared the efficacies of telavancin and vancomycin against MRSA strains with vancomycin MICs of ≥1 μg/ml in a neutropenic murine lung in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Crandon JL,Kuti JL,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989 and 1990, a large number of ampicillin-resistant strains of Enterococcus faecium were isolated from infected patients treated at intensive care units in Berlin, Germany. Twenty-five clinical isolates, including five different biotypes as classified by acid production from various sugars and a wide range of sus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Klare I,Rodloff AC,Wagner J,Witte W,Hakenbeck R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiviral activity of zinc salts against rhinovirus types 1A and 39 was assayed by yield reduction and inhibition of cytopathic effect in cell culture. The findings indicate that the zinc salts tested have low in vitro therapeutic indices and suggest that the possible beneficial effects of zinc lozenges in reducin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Geist FC,Bateman JA,Hayden FG

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal pentapeptide auristatin PHE was recently shown to interfere with microtubule dynamics and nuclear and cellular division in the opportunistic pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. To gain a broader understanding of the cellular response of C. neoformans to auristatin PHE, mRNA differential display (DD) and r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Woyke T,Berens ME,Hoelzinger DB,Pettit GR,Winkelmann G,Pettit RK

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of two investigational quinolones, sparfloxacin (previously designated AT 4140) and PD 127391, were determined for 30 strains each of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma hominis, and Ureaplasma urealyticum and compared with those of ciprofloxacin, tetracycline, clindamycin, and erythromycin. Eryt...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Waites KB,Duffy LB,Schmid T,Crabb D,Pate MS,Cassell GH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anilinouracils (AUs) such as 6-(3-ethyl-4-methylanilino)uracil (EMAU) are a novel class of gram-positive, selective, bactericidal antibacterials which inhibit pol IIIC, the gram-positive-specific replicative DNA polymerase. We have linked various fluoroquinolones (FQs) to the N-3 position of EMAU to generate a var...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Butler MM,Lamarr WA,Foster KA,Barnes MH,Skow DJ,Lyden PT,Kustigian LM,Zhi C,Brown NC,Wright GE,Bowlin TL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the impact of low-level resistance to fluoroquinolones on the bactericidal activity of ciprofloxacin in a murine model of urinary tract infection. The susceptible Escherichia coli strain CFT073 (ciprofloxacin MIC [CIP MIC] of 0.008 microg/ml) was compared to its transconjugants harboring qnrA1 or qnrS1...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Allou N,Cambau E,Massias L,Chau F,Fantin B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum has the capacity to escape the actions of essentially all antimalarial drugs. ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter proteins are known to cause multidrug resistance in a large range of organisms, including the Apicomplexa parasites. P. falciparum genome analysis has revealed two genes coding for...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Veiga MI,Osório NS,Ferreira PE,Franzén O,Dahlstrom S,Lum JK,Nosten F,Gil JP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in hospital patients. Moreover, increased incidences of outpatient MRSA have been recently reported. This study investigated the bactericidal activity of dalbavancin, a novel, semisynthetic glycopepti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jabés D,Candiani G,Romanó G,Brunati C,Riva S,Cavaleri M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the capacity of copper oxide-containing filters to reduce infectious titers of a panel of viruses spiked into culture media. Enveloped, nonenveloped, RNA, and DNA viruses were affected, suggesting the possibility of using copper oxide-containing devices to deactivate a wide spectrum of infectious viruses fou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Borkow G,Sidwell RW,Smee DF,Barnard DL,Morrey JD,Lara-Villegas HH,Shemer-Avni Y,Gabbay J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 741 urinary tract isolates of the Morganella-Proteus-Providencia group, including the recently defined species Proteus penneri, for susceptibilities to aminoglycosides, semisynthetic penicillins, and cephalosporins. The data emphasize the importance of identification to the species level on the basis of ma...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Piccolomini R,Cellini L,Allocati N,Di Girolamo A,Ravagnan G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used multiplex PCR to determine the agr group membership of 18 European glycopeptide heterointermediate and intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. Of the 15 agr group I strains, 13 were resistant and 2 were susceptible to methicillin. The remaining three strains, like the United States and Japanese c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verdier I,Reverdy ME,Etienne J,Lina G,Bes M,Vandenesch F

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unbound drug hypothesis states that only unbound drug concentrations are active and available for clearance, and highly variable results regarding unbound vancomycin fractions have been reported in the literature. We have determined the unbound vancomycin fractions in four different patient groups by a liquid chro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Oyaert M,Spriet I,Allegaert K,Smits A,Vanstraelen K,Peersman N,Wauters J,Verhaegen J,Vermeersch P,Pauwels S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group H1 R factor encoding resistance to chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfonamide, and tetracycline was transferred into Salmonella typhimurium LT-2. The virulence of LT-2 for mice, as assessed by intraperitoneal 50% lethal dose and the number of organisms in the spleen, was not affected by the R factor. On the ot...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Butler T,Shuster CW,Franco A

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most deadly outbreak of Escherichia coli O104:H4 occurred in Europe in 2011. Here, we evaluated the effects of the retrograde trafficking inhibitor Retro-2(cycl) in a murine model of E. coli O104:H4 infection. Systemic treatment with Retro-2(cycl) significantly reduced body weight loss and improved clinical scores...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Secher T,Shima A,Hinsinger K,Cintrat JC,Johannes L,Barbier J,Gillet D,Oswald E

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new fluoroquinolone trovafloxacin was tested against a ciprofloxacin-sensitive, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in the rabbit model of endocarditis. Trovafloxacin was more effective than vancomycin (CFU/g of vegetation, 2.65 +/- 1.87 versus 4.54 +/- 2.80 [mean +/- standard deviation]; P < 0.05) ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kim YS,Liu Q,Chow LL,Chambers HF,Täuber MG

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial metabolism studies of the antimalarial drug primaquine, using Streptomyces roseochromogenus (ATCC 13400) have produced an N-acetylated metabolite and a methylene-linked dimeric product, both of which have been previously reported, and a novel sulfur-containing microbial metabolite. The structure of the metab...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hufford CD,Baker JK,McChesney JD,Clark AM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of attenuated Bacillus anthracis with high-level ciprofloxacin resistance were isolated using a three-step in vitro selection. Ciprofloxacin MICs were 0.5 micro g/ml for first-step mutants, which had one of two gyrA quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) mutations. Ciprofloxacin MICs were 8 and 16 micr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Price LB,Vogler A,Pearson T,Busch JD,Schupp JM,Keim P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rapidly fatal infection caused by the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri The amoeba migrates along the olfactory nerve to the brain, resulting in seizures, coma, and, eventually, death. Previous research has shown that Naegleria gruberi, a close relative of N. fowleri, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sarink MJ,Tielens AGM,Verbon A,Sutak R,van Hellemond JJ

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activity of CS-940, a new trifluorinated quinolone drug, was tested against 761 clinical isolates. CS-940 activity against members of the family Enterobacteriaceae was most similar to that of ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin, with a large range of MICs inhibiting 90% of isolates tested (MIC90S) of 0.015 t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Biedenbach DJ,Sutton LD,Jones RN

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five strains of Pasteurella multocida from humans and animals were tested for susceptibility to five cephalosporins by a broth dilution method. Cefcanel showed high activity against all isolates (MIC and MBC, less than or equal to 0.64 micrograms/ml). The corresponding figure for cefaclor and cefuroxime was 2.5...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Holst E,Rollof J,Miörner H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of rosamicin and erythromycin was compared at various pH values against 311 strains of bacteria representing common urinary tract pathogens. Alkalinization of the media consistently and significantly increased the antibacterial activity of rosamicin against all of the organisms tested. This was a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eickhoff TC,Ehret JM

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penetration of ciprofloxacin into heart tissue (valve and myocardium), mediastinal fat, and sternal bone marrow was the object of a prospective nonrandomized study involving 36 patients undergoing mitral and/or aortic valve replacement. Patients were divided into two groups of 18. Group 1 patients were administere...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mertes PM,Voiriot P,Dopff C,Scholl H,Clavey M,Villemot JP,Canton P,Dureux JB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-level resistance to quinolones has previously been shown to occur in Campylobacter spp. both in vitro and in patients treated with quinolones. We have selected isolates that are resistant to quinolones by plating cells from a susceptible C. jejuni strain, UA535, on medium containing nalidixic acid at 32 microgram...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gootz TD,Martin BA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the diffusion of pefloxacin into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in 15 patients with bacterial meningitis or ventriculitis, 14 of whom were treated with other antibiotics. Three doses of pefloxacin were administered at 12-h intervals to 11 patients intravenously and to 4 patients orally. Individual doses we...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wolff M,Regnier B,Daldoss C,Nkam M,Vachon F

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00