Action of polymyxin B on bacterial membranes: morphological changes in the cytoplasm and in the outer membrane of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli B.

abstract：:Mycobacterium simiae is a rare species of slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). From 2002 to 2017, we conducted a retrospective study that included all patients with NTM-positive respiratory samples detected in two university hospitals of the French overseas department of Reunion Island. We recorded the prev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coolen-Allou N,Touron T,Belmonte O,Gazaille V,Andre M,Allyn J,Picot S,Payet A,Veziris N

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The prophylactic efficacy of 17C91, a carbamate prodrug of atovaquone (ATQ), was investigated in a severe combined immunodeficient mouse model of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). At an oral dosage equivalent to 100 mg of ATQ per kg of body weight per day, 17C91 protected 9 of 10 mice from PCP and had a prophylact...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Comley JC,Yeates CL,Frend TJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatographic fractionation of streptovaricin complex yields two stable components enriched (4- to 16-fold) in activity directed against the polycythemic strain of Friend virus; both components apparently contain no streptovaricins. When compared with their unfractionated parent streptovaricin complex, eight individ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Horoszewicz JS,Rinehart KL Jr,Leong SS,Carter WA

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NS3/4A protease from hepatitis C virus (HCV) plays a key role in viral replication. We report a system for monitoring the activity of this enzyme in single living mammalian cells. We constructed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) probe that consists of an enhanced cyan fluorescent protein-citrine fusi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sabariegos R,Picazo F,Domingo B,Franco S,Martinez MA,Llopis J

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to daptomycin in enterococcal clinical isolates remains rare but is being increasingly reported in the United States and worldwide. There are limited data on the genetic relatedness and microbiological and clinical characteristics of daptomycin-nonsusceptible enterococcal clinical isolates. In this study, w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang G,Kamalakaran S,Dhand A,Huang W,Ojaimi C,Zhuge J,Yee LL,Mayigowda P,Surendraiah PK,Dimitrova N,Fallon JT

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymixin colistin represents a last resort antibiotic for multidrug resistant infections, but its use is limited by the frequent onset of acute drug-induced kidney injury (DIKI). It is essential to closely monitor kidney function prior to and during colistin treatment in order to pinpoint early signs of injury an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Samodelov SL,Visentin M,Gai Z,Häusler S,Kullak-Ublick GA

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple technique with antibiotic-impregnated disks has been developed to demonstrate the antibiotic synergism of penicillins and aminoglycosides against enterococci. The two antibiotic disks are placed on inoculated plates so that the distance between their centers is less than the sum of the two radii of their prev...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lee WS,Komarmy L

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral Fusobacterium nucleatum populations from 20 young, healthy children were examined for beta-lactamase production. Ten children (50%) harbored, altogether, 25 beta-lactamase-positive F. nucleatum isolates that were identified as F. nucleatum subsp. polymorphum, F. nucleatum subsp. nucleatum, and F. nucleatum subsp....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Könönen E,Kanervo A,Salminen K,Jousimies-Somer H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluoroquinolone antimicrobial drug danofloxacin was administered to sheep intravenously (i.v.) and intramuscularly (i.m.) at a dose of 1.25 mg/kg of body weight in a two-period crossover study. The pharmacokinetic properties of danofloxacin in serum, inflamed tissue cage fluid (exudate), and noninflamed tissue cag...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aliabadi FS,Landoni MF,Lees P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms and the overexpression of transporter genes, especially of the ATP-binding cassette superfamily, have been involved in antimalarial drug resistance. The objective of this study was to use 77 Senegalese Plasmodium falciparum isolates to evaluate the association between the number of Asn residues in the po...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gendrot M,Diawara S,Madamet M,Kounta MB,Briolant S,Wade KA,Fall M,Benoit N,Nakoulima A,Amalvict R,Diémé Y,Fall B,Wade B,Diatta B,Pradines B

更新日期：2017-02-23 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 objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of antimicrobial drug use, gastric acid-suppressive agent use, and infection control practices on the incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in a 426-bed general teaching hospital in Northern Ireland. The study was retrospective and ecologi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aldeyab MA,Harbarth S,Vernaz N,Kearney MP,Scott MG,Funston C,Savage K,Kelly D,Aldiab MA,McElnay JC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro pharmacodynamic properties of colistin and colistin methanesulfonate were investigated by studying the MICs, time-kill kinetics, and postantibiotic effect (PAE) against mucoid and nonmucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis. Twenty-three clinical strains, includ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li J,Turnidge J,Milne R,Nation RL,Coulthard K

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we completely sequenced four mcr-1-haboring plasmids, isolated from two extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and two carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates. The mcr-1-harboring plasmids from an E. coli sequence type 2448 (ST2448) isolate and two K. pneumoniae ST...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li A,Yang Y,Miao M,Chavda KD,Mediavilla JR,Xie X,Feng P,Tang YW,Kreiswirth BN,Chen L,Du H

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies using laboratory clones have demonstrated that several antiretroviral protease inhibitors (PIs) inhibit the growth of Plasmodium falciparum at concentrations that may be of clinical significance, especially during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and malaria coinfection. Using clinical isolat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lek-Uthai U,Suwanarusk R,Ruengweerayut R,Skinner-Adams TS,Nosten F,Gardiner DL,Boonma P,Piera KA,Andrews KT,Machunter B,McCarthy JS,Anstey NM,Price RN,Russell B

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in community-acquired infections caused by extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae have important implications for hospital infection control and empirical antibiotic therapy protocols. We developed and validated a tool for identifying patients harboring these organisms at hospital ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tumbarello M,Trecarichi EM,Bassetti M,De Rosa FG,Spanu T,Di Meco E,Losito AR,Parisini A,Pagani N,Cauda R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is killed in vitro by polyoxyethylene acyl esters and ethers similar to simethicone emulsifiers in therapeutic antifoams. The MBC of these compounds for Helicobacter pylori was less than 20 micrograms/ml, while other gram-negative bacteria were unaffected by much higher concentrations of up to 50 m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kane AV,Plaut AG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefoxitin resistance, but not resistance to clindamycin, erythromycin, lincomycin, or tetracycline, was transferred by a conjugation-like process from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron UN101, a clinical isolate haboring four kinds of plasmids, to other Bacteroides species. Of a sample of 20 cefoxitin-resistant transconjuga...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rashtchian A,Dubes GR,Booth SJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apicomplexan parasites that cause malaria and babesiosis invade and proliferate within erythrocytes. To assess the potential for common antiparasitic treatments, we measured the sensitivities of multiple species of Plasmodium and Babesia parasites to the chemically diverse collection of antimalarial compounds in t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Paul AS,Moreira CK,Elsworth B,Allred DR,Duraisingh MT

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Disinfectant-tolerant Listeria monocytogenes biofilms can colonize surfaces that come into contact with food, leading to contamination and, potentially, food-borne illnesses. To better understand the process of L. monocytogenes biofilm formation and dispersal, we screened 1,120 off-patent FDA-approved drugs and identi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nguyen UT,Harvey H,Hogan AJ,Afonso AC,Wright GD,Burrows LL

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R plasmids identified in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated in our laboratories were classified by their incompatibility characters by using intraspecies conjugation in P. aeruginosa. The fertility factor, FP2, was compatible with R plasmids belonging to all groups, and was classified in a new group. From these d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sagai H,Hasuda K,Iyobe S,Bryan LE,Holloway BW,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and tolerability of a new parenteral carbapenem antibiotic, biapenem (L-627), were studied in healthy elderly volunteers aged 65 to 74 years (71.6 +/- 2.7 years [mean +/- standard deviation], n = 5; group B) and > or = 75 years (77.8 +/- 1.9 years, n = 5; group C), following single intravenous dos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kozawa O,Uematsu T,Matsuno H,Niwa M,Takiguchi Y,Matsumoto S,Minamoto M,Niida Y,Yokokawa M,Nagashima S,Kanamaru M

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：: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：:Ten patients received a loading dose of tobramycin of 60 mg/m2 intravenously over 0.5 h followed immediately by 60 mg/m2 over 2 h every 4 h. The highest mean serum concentration (at the end of the loading dose) was 6.0 +/- 0.3 microgram/ml (range, 3.2 to 10.9 microgram/ml). The mean serum concentration 2 h after the e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lawson RD,Bodey GP,Pan T,Smith TL

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is responsible for a global pandemic. New drugs are needed that do not show cross-resistance with the existing front-line therapeutics. A triazine antitubercular hit led to the design of a related pyrimidine family. The synthesis of a focused series of these analogs facilitated exp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Inoyama D,Paget SD,Russo R,Kandasamy S,Kumar P,Singleton E,Occi J,Tuckman M,Zimmerman MD,Ho HP,Perryman AL,Dartois V,Connell N,Freundlich JS

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight healthy male volunteers received 1 g of either ceftazidime or cefamandole as an intravenous infection. Serial blood samples were taken over the next 8 h. Urine samples were collected over 24 h. Levels of these antibiotics were measured in the fluid of blisters resulting from application of cantharides. The conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Armstrong GC,Wise R,Brown RM,Hancox J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single amino acid substitutions in the Ω loop of KPC β-lactamases are known to lead to resistance to the ceftazidime-avibactam combination. Here, we investigate this mechanism of resistance in CTX-M enzymes, which are the most widely spread extended-spectrum β-lactamases worldwide. Nine single amino acid polymorphisms...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Compain F,Dorchène D,Arthur M

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of ceftriaxone alone and in combination with gentamicin, tobramycin, and amikacin against 50 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains was studied by the broth dilution method and the time-kill curve method. The majority of the P. aeruginosa strains tested were resistant to ceftriaxone. Combining ceftriaxon...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Watanakunakorn C

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While Candida albicans remains the most common Candida isolate, Candida glabrata accounts for approximately 15 to 20% of all Candida infections in the United States. In this study we used immunosuppressed mice infected with C. glabrata to investigate the efficacy of liposomal amphotericin B alone or in combination wit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Olson JA,Adler-Moore JP,Smith PJ,Proffitt RT

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00