Evaluation of a new line probe assay for rapid identification of gyrA mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

abstract：:Demonstration of synergism between trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole against 10 Nocardia isolates was found to be critically dependent upon the isolate, the duration of incubation, and the trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ratio. Inoculum effect was not significant. The trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ratio in the commercia...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bennett JE,Jennings AE

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic properties of an everninomicin antibiotic (SCH27899; Ziracin) were studied with healthy Japanese male volunteers by single (1, 3, 6, and 9 mg/kg of body weight) and multiple 60-min intravenous infusions (3, 6, and 9 mg/kg once daily for 10 consecutive days following a 2-day interval after the initi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kozawa O,Uematsu T,Matsuno H,Niwa M,Kohno K,Kawato A,Takahashi K,Nagashima S,Kanamaru M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After vaginal insertion of a 300-mg ovule of tioconazole in 10 patients with vaginal candidiasis, the mean concentration in plasma was 21.2 ng/ml (range, 10.6 to 35.8 ng/ml) at 8 h and was not measurable at 24 h in 9 of 10 patients. The mean vaginal concentration at 24 h was 21.4 mg/liter (range, 2.4 to 50 mg/liter) a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Houang ET,Lawrence AG

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs) play important roles in host immune defenses. Plectasin is a defensin-like CAP isolated from the saprophytic fungus Pseudoplectania nigrella. NZ2114 is a novel variant of plectasin with potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria. In this study, we investigated (i) the in vivo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xiong YQ,Hady WA,Deslandes A,Rey A,Fraisse L,Kristensen HH,Yeaman MR,Bayer AS

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of calcium-deficient apatite loaded with different concentrations (25, 100, and 500 microg/mg) of vancomycin as a filling biomaterial were evaluated in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rabbit acute osteomyelitis model. Bacterial counts in bone, bone marrow, and joint fl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Amador G,Gautier H,Le Mabecque V,Miegeville AF,Potel G,Bouler JM,Weiss P,Caillon J,Jacqueline C

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Capnocytophaga sputigena isolate NOR, responsible for septicemia, was resistant to amoxicillin and narrow-spectrum cephalosporins. In a cloning experiment, a new gene, bla(CSP-1), was identified; this gene encodes a novel extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) that shares only 52% and 49% identities with the CME-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Guillon H,Eb F,Mammeri H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients undergoing liver transplantation universally experience rapid reinfection of their new liver graft. Current treatment protocols do not prevent graft reinfection and, in addition, an accelerated disease progression is observed. In the present study, we have evaluated a novel st...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meuleman P,Albecka A,Belouzard S,Vercauteren K,Verhoye L,Wychowski C,Leroux-Roels G,Palmer KE,Dubuisson J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind study was performed to compare the clinical response and the incidence of side effects in 2,581 patients administered ampicillin or cyclacillin for infections of the genitourinary or respiratory tract, infections of the skin and soft tissues, or for otitis media. There was no significant difference in c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gold JA,Hegarty CP,Deitch MW,Walker BR

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction in pathogenic fungi or model yeast causes altered susceptibilities to antifungal drugs. Here we have characterized the role of mitochondrial complex I (CI) of Candida albicans in antifungal susceptibility. Inhibitors of CI to CV, except for CII, increased the susceptibility of both patient an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun N,Fonzi W,Chen H,She X,Zhang L,Zhang L,Calderone R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxycycline is an alternative antibiotic drug for the treatment of syphilis, but data on its efficacy, especially data on its efficacy against late latent syphilis, are limited. A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of doxycycline for the treatment of patients with different stages of syphi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dai T,Qu R,Liu J,Zhou P,Wang Q

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A new natural TEM-2 derivative, named TEM-72, was identified in a Proteus mirabilis strain and in a Morganella morganii strain isolated in Italy in 1999. Compared to TEM-1, TEM-72 contains the following amino acid substitutions: Q39K, M182T, G238S, and E240K. Kinetic analysis showed that TEM-72 exhibits an extended-sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perilli M,Segatore B,de Massis MR,Riccio ML,Bianchi C,Zollo A,Rossolini GM,Amicosante G

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the CANCER Antimicrobial Surveillance Program in North America, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate, strain 07-406, was shown to possess a metallo-beta-lactamase, designated VIM-7. bla(VIM-7) is located on a 24-kb plasmid which can be readily transferred into Enterobacteriaceae and other pseudomonads. This is ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Toleman MA,Rolston K,Jones RN,Walsh TR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilastatin inhibits dehydropeptidase-I, a zinc metaloenzyme that metabolizes imipenem. Because zinc stabilizes the mammalian superoxide dismutase, we postulated that cilastatin would also inhibit the dismutase. Cilastatin concentrations at levels threefold higher than those expected in urine, however, did not inhibit ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Proctor RA,Textor JA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical foscarnet (PFA) and acyclovir (ACV) were compared in the dorsal cutaneous guinea pig model of herpes simplex virus type 1 infection. The relative order of efficacy was PFA cream greater than ACV cream greater than ACV ointment. In vitro studies demonstrated that PFA and ACV formulated in cream vehicles penetra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spruance SL,Freeman DJ,Sheth NV

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane fraction from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KM 338 was shown to catalyze in vitro peptidoglycan synthesis from uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanyl-d- glutamyl-meso-diaminopimelyl-d-alanyl-d-alanine and uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine. Synthesized peptidoglycan was partially cross-linked by t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Suginaka H,Ichikawa A,Kotani S

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use kinetic models to investigate how to design antimicrobial phage therapies to minimize emergence of resistant bacteria. We do this by modifying the "mutant selection window" hypothesis in a way that accounts for the ongoing self-replication of the phage. We show that components of combination phage therapies nee...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cairns BJ,Payne RJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food for human consumption is screened widely for the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to assess the potential for transfer of resistant bacteria to the general population. Here, we describe an Enterobacter cloacae complex isolated from imported seafood that encodes two carbapenemases on two distinct plasmids...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brouwer MSM,Tehrani KHME,Rapallini M,Geurts Y,Kant A,Harders F,Mashayekhi V,Martin NI,Bossers A,Mevius DJ,Wit B,Veldman KT

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ledipasvir (LDV; GS-5885), a component of Harvoni (a fixed-dose combination of LDV with sofosbuvir [SOF]), is approved to treat chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Here, we report key preclinical antiviral properties of LDV, including in vitro potency, in vitro resistance profile, and activity in combination wi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cheng G,Tian Y,Doehle B,Peng B,Corsa A,Lee YJ,Gong R,Yu M,Han B,Xu S,Dvory-Sobol H,Perron M,Xu Y,Mo H,Pagratis N,Link JO,Delaney W

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated fleroxacin, a newer fluoroquinolone, against isolates from sputum from patients with cystic fibrosis. These isolates included rough and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas cepacia, Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, and Escherichia coli. Selected isolates were tested by the broth microd...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Akaniro JC,Vidaurre CE,Stutman HR,Marks MI

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrase inhibitor raltegravir (RAL) is currently used for the treatment of both treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced HIV-1-infected patients. Elvitegravir (EVG) is in late phases of clinical development. Since significant cross-resistance between RAL and EVG is observed, there is a need for second-generatio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Wesenbeeck L,Rondelez E,Feyaerts M,Verheyen A,Van der Borght K,Smits V,Cleybergh C,De Wolf H,Van Baelen K,Stuyver LJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial susceptibility and mechanisms of resistance of 109 Shigella and 40 Salmonella isolates from children with diarrhea in southern Mozambique were assessed. The susceptibility to seven antimicrobial agents was tested by disk diffusion, and mechanisms of resistance were searched by PCR or colorimetric met...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mandomando I,Jaintilal D,Pons MJ,Vallès X,Espasa M,Mensa L,Sigaúque B,Sanz S,Sacarlal J,Macete E,Abacassamo F,Alonso PL,Ruiz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 113 patients were randomly allocated to receive either ticarcillin plus clavulanic acid (total dose, 20.8 g) or clindamycin (total dose, 2.4 g) plus amikacin (total dose, 1 g) as perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis for major head and neck surgery. The two groups were similar in age, prior antineoplastic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gerard M,Meunier F,Dor P,Andry G,Chantrain G,Van der Auwera P,Daneau D,Klastersky J

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-8-methoxy fluoroquinolones were more lethal than C-8-bromine, C-8-ethoxy, and C-8-H derivatives for Staphylococcus aureus, especially when topoisomerase IV was resistant. The methoxy group also increased lethality against wild-type cells when protein synthesis was inhibited. These properties encourage refinement of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhao X,Wang JY,Xu C,Dong Y,Zhou J,Domagala J,Drlica K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports an evaluation of a melamino nitroheterocycle, a potential lead for further development as an agent against human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Studies on its efficacy, physicochemical and biopharmaceutical properties, and potential for toxicity are described. The compound previously had been shown ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giordani F,Buschini A,Baliani A,Kaiser M,Brun R,Barrett MP,Pellacani C,Poli P,Gilbert IH

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of liposomal amphotericin B (LAMB) and caspofungin (CAS) holds promise to improve the outcome of opportunistic invasive mycoses with poor prognosis. Little is known, however, about the safety and pharmacokinetics of the combination in patients at high risk for these infections. The safety and pharmacok...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Groll AH,Silling G,Young C,Schwerdtfeger R,Ostermann H,Heinz WJ,Gerss J,Kolve H,Lanvers-Kaminsky C,Vieira Pinheiro JP,Gammelin S,Cornely OA,Wuerthwein G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorhexidine (Hibiscrub; ICI) is generally accepted to be effective as an antiseptic hand wash for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), but there is dispute whether the chlorhexidine MIC for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains is higher than that for MSSA strains and, indeed, whether it is...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cookson BD,Bolton MC,Platt JH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis that treatment of schistosomiasis mansoni with praziquantel can alter significantly the immune response of patients and generate a reversal of the level of fibrosis. Peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples were collected from, and abdominal ultraso...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martins-Leite P,Gazzinelli G,Alves-Oliveira LF,Gazzinelli A,Malaquias LC,Correa-Oliveira R,Teixeira-Carvalho A,Silveira AM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae strains have spread worldwide and become a major threat in health care facilities. Transmission of blaKPC, the plasmid-borne KPC gene, can be mediated by clonal spread and horizontal transfer. Here, we report the complete nucleotide sequences of two nov...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen L,Chavda KD,Melano RG,Hong T,Rojtman AD,Jacobs MR,Bonomo RA,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of an extended-release (XR) formulation of ciprofloxacin has been compared to that of the immediate-release (IR) product in healthy volunteers. The only significant difference in pharmacokinetic parameters between the two formulations was seen in the rate constant of absorption, which was approxim...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meagher AK,Forrest A,Dalhoff A,Stass H,Schentag JJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the pharmacokinetics and interactions of steady-state micafungin (Mycamine) or placebo with steady-state voriconazole in 35 volunteers. The 90% confidence intervals around the least-squares mean ratios for micafungin pharmacokinetic parameters and placebo-corrected voriconazole pharmacokinetic parameters w...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Keirns J,Sawamoto T,Holum M,Buell D,Wisemandle W,Alak A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00