Therapy of experimental pseudomonas infections with a nonreplicating genetically modified phage.

abstract：:Nocardia species are gram-positive environmental saprophytes, but some cause the infectious disease nocardiosis. The complete genomic sequence of Nocardia farcinica IFM 10152 has been determined, and analyses indicated the presence of two different RNA polymerase beta subunit genes, rpoB and rpoB2, in the genome (J. I...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ishikawa J,Chiba K,Kurita H,Satoh H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meglumine antimonate (Glucantime), a drug of choice for the treatment of leishmaniasis, is produced by the reaction of pentavalent antimony with N-methyl-D-glucamine, a carbohydrate derivative. We investigated the structure and composition of meglumine antimonate, which remain poorly understood, despite 50 years of us...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roberts WL,McMurray WJ,Rainey PM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the marketing of a series of new antibiotics for antibiotic-resistant gram-positive bacteria, no new agents for multiple-antibiotic-resistant gram-negative infections will be available for quite some time. Clinicians will need to find more effective ways to utilize available agents. Colistin is an older but no...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gunderson BW,Ibrahim KH,Hovde LB,Fromm TL,Reed MD,Rotschafer JC

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a multiplex PCR assay capable of identifying two capsular polysaccharide synthesis sequence types (sequence type 258 [ST258] cps-1 and cps-2) in epidemic Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 strains. The assay performed with excellent sensitivity (100%) and specificity (100%) for identifying cps types in 60 ST258 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen L,Chavda KD,Findlay J,Peirano G,Hopkins K,Pitout JD,Bonomo RA,Woodford N,DeLeo FR,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the in vitro activities of anidulafungin, micafungin, and caspofungin against Candida krusei by determining MIC and minimum fungicidal concentration (MFC) measurements and by the time-kill method. The geometric mean (GM)-MIC/GM-MFC values were 0.1/0.34, 0.25/0.44, and 1/2.29, respectively. The mean times ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cantón E,Pemán J,Valentín A,Espinel-Ingroff A,Gobernado M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2016, we identified a new class A carbapenemase, VCC-1, in a nontoxigenic Vibrio cholerae strain that had been isolated from retail shrimp imported into Canada for human consumption. Shortly thereafter, seven additional VCC-1-producing V. cholerae isolates were recovered along the German coastline. These isolates a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mangat CS,Vadlamani G,Holicek V,Chu M,Larmour VLC,Vocadlo DJ,Mulvey MR,Mark BL

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activity of carumonam (formerly RO-17-2301), a monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic, was compared with those of aztreonam, cefotaxime, cefoperazone, ceftazidime, piperacillin, and gentamicin against 455 bacterial isolates. Carumonam did not possess activity against gram-positive cocci and was generally ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smith BR,LeFrock JL,McCloskey RV,Donato JB,Weber SJ,Joseph WS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 3-alkyl-substituted 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinones, NSC 113452 (NSC52) and NSC 113455 (NSC55), were evaluated for activity against Toxoplasma gondii in vitro and in murine models of acute toxoplasmosis. In vitro, both NSC52 and NSC55 significantly inhibited intracellular replication of T. gondii. In vivo, each comp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khan AA,Nasr M,Araujo FG

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of teicoplanin and vancomycin against 362 coagulase-negative staphylococci were determined by an agar dilution method. At the 4- and 32-micrograms/ml breakpoint levels of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 23.2% of the strains were intermediate and 1.7% were resistant to teicoplan...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein FW,Coutrot A,Sieffer A,Acar JF

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating data have brought the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors (NNRTIs) into the forefront of antiretroviral therapy. Among the emerging compounds in this class, a particularly attractive one is efavirenz (Sustiva), recently approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maga G,Ubiali D,Salvetti R,Pregnolato M,Spadari S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPCs) by Enterobacteriaceae has become a significant problem in recent years. To identify factors that could predict isolation of KPC-producing K. pneumoniae (KPCKP) in clinical samples from hospitalized patients, we conducted a retrospective, matched (1:2) case-...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tumbarello M,Trecarichi EM,Tumietto F,Del Bono V,De Rosa FG,Bassetti M,Losito AR,Tedeschi S,Saffioti C,Corcione S,Giannella M,Raffaelli F,Pagani N,Bartoletti M,Spanu T,Marchese A,Cauda R,Viscoli C,Viale P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribosome-targeting antimicrobial, spectinomycin (SPC), strongly induced the mexXY genes of the MexXY-OprM multidrug efflux system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and increased susceptibility to the polycationic antimicrobials polymyxin B and polymyxin E, concomitant with a decrease in expression of the polymyxin resista...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Poole K,Lau CH,Gilmour C,Hao Y,Lam JS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of gatifloxacin therapy (15 mg/kg every 5 h [q5h]) was compared with that of meropenem (75 mg/kg q5h) and cefotaxime (75 mg/kg q5h) therapy in experimental meningitis caused by a beta-lactamase-producing strain of Escherichia coli. Gatifloxacin therapy was more rapidly bactericidal than cefotaxime bu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lutsar I,Friedland IR,Jafri HS,Wubbel L,Ng W,Ghaffar F,McCracken GH Jr

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite data describing ocular pharmacokinetics are unreliable because of intersubject variation. To address this problem, an animal model was developed in which multiple aqueous samples from single subjects were obtained. Following direct anterior chamber or intravenous administration of amikacin or chloramphenicol...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mayers M,Rush D,Madu A,Motyl M,Miller MH

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid (6-7 hr), modified Kirby-Bauer disk-susceptibility method, by which derivatives of tetrazolium dyes are used to enhance delineation between areas of growth and zones of inhibition, has been developed. Inoculated petri plates, prepared by the Kirby-Bauer method, were sprayed, after 6 to 7 hr of incubation (37 C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Boyle VJ,Fancher ME,Ross RW Jr

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abilities of the H+-ATPase inhibitor N, N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and the antibiotic ionophore nigericin to enhance the bactericidal effect of subinhibitory concentrations of gentamicin in two strains of Staphylococcus aureus were studied. Each compound significantly increased both gentamicin uptake and killing....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mandel LJ,Eisenberg ES,Simkin NJ,Miller MH

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoperoxides are a new class of antimalarial agents, of which artemisinin (qinghaosu) is the prototype. We have previously shown that artemisinin is capable of alkylating proteins in model reactions. In the present study, we showed that when Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes are treated with a radiolabe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Asawamahasakda W,Ittarat I,Pu YM,Ziffer H,Meshnick SR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of a new prototype carbapenem, L-695,256, against clinical isolates of gram-positive and gram-negative aerobes was studied in vitro by agar dilution. L-695,256 was highly active against methicillin-resistant and -susceptible isolates of staphylococci (MICs, 0.016 to 2 micrograms/ml) and against penicillin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rylander M,Rollof J,Jacobsson K,Norrby SR

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are effective antibiotic agents commonly found in plants, animals, and microorganisms, and they have been suggested as the future of antimicrobial chemotherapies. It is vital to understand the molecular details that define the mechanism of action of resistance to AMPs for a rational plann...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maria-Neto S,Cândido Ede S,Rodrigues DR,de Sousa DA,da Silva EM,de Moraes LM,Otero-Gonzalez Ade J,Magalhães BS,Dias SC,Franco OL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activity of a new intravenous (i.v.) preparation of human vaccinia immune globulin (VIGIV) was evaluated in two mouse models of vaccinia virus (VV) infection. In a mouse tail lesion model, female CD-1 mice were inoculated i.v. with 7 x 10(4) PFU of VV to produce >10 lesions per tail 8 days later. In a m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shearer JD,Siemann L,Gerkovich M,House RV

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pyridodiazepine amine inhibitor of Helicobacter pylori glutamate racemase (MurI) was characterized. The compound was selectively active against H. pylori, and growth suppression was shown to be mediated through the inhibition of MurI by several methods. In killing kinetics experiments, the compound showed concentrat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Jonge BL,Kutschke A,Newman JV,Rooney MT,Yang W,Cederberg C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to the recently approved nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) rilpivirine (RPV) commonly involves substitutions at positions E138K and K101E in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT), together with an M184I substitution that is associated with resistance to coutilized emtricitabine (FTC). Previou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Xu HT,Colby-Germinario SP,Huang W,Oliveira M,Han Y,Quan Y,Petropoulos CJ,Wainberg MA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternate therapies are needed for treatment of secondary bacterial pneumonia following influenza. The immunomodulatory peptide P4 has shown promise in mouse models of primary pneumococcal infection. Mice infected with influenza virus and then challenged with Streptococcus pneumoniae were treated with a combination of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weeks JN,Boyd KL,Rajam G,Ades EW,McCullers JA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify the clarithromycin resistance mechanisms of β-lactamase-nonproducing ampicillin-resistant Haemophilus influenzae strains. In all clarithromycin-resistant strains, the transcript level of acrB was significantly elevated, and these strains had a frameshift mutation in acrR Introducti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seyama S,Wajima T,Nakaminami H,Noguchi N

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide-resistant group A streptococci (MRGAS) have been recovered from many countries worldwide. However, the strain typing information that is available has been insufficient for estimating the total number of macrolide-resistant clones, their geographic distributions, and their evolutionary relationships. In this...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robinson DA,Sutcliffe JA,Tewodros W,Manoharan A,Bessen DE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens strain, 10mdr148, was identified in a Japanese hospital in 2010. The carbapenem resistance of this strain was attributed to the production of a novel metallo-β-lactamase (MBL), named SMB-1 (Serratia metallo-β-lactamase). SMB-1 possessed a zinc binding motif, H(Q)XHXDH (residu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wachino J,Yoshida H,Yamane K,Suzuki S,Matsui M,Yamagishi T,Tsutsui A,Konda T,Shibayama K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of ciprofloxacin for experimental aortic valve endocarditis in rabbits infected by either a methicillin-susceptible or a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus was compared with standard therapy of nafcillin or vancomycin, respectively. After 4 days of therapy, ciprofloxacin reduced the cou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Carpenter TC,Hackbarth CJ,Chambers HF,Sande MA

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm production is an important step in the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus epidermidis polymer-associated infections and depends on the expression of the icaADBC operon leading to the synthesis of a polysaccharide intercellular adhesin. A chromosomally encoded reporter gene fusion between the ica promoter and the b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rachid S,Ohlsen K,Witte W,Hacker J,Ziebuhr W

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro susceptibilities to 45 antibiotics were determined for 30 genetically and geographically diverse strains of Yersinia pestis by the broth microdilution method at two temperatures, 28°C and 35°C, following Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) methods. The Y. pestis strains demonstrated susceptibil...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Heine HS,Hershfield J,Marchand C,Miller L,Halasohoris S,Purcell BK,Worsham PL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biapenem, formerly LJC 10,627 or L-627, a carbapenem antibiotic, was studied in its interactions with 12 beta-lactamases belonging to the four molecular classes proposed by R. P. Ambler (Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Biol. Sci. 289:321-331, 1980). Kinetic parameters were determined. Biapenem was readily inactivated by ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Felici A,Perilli M,Segatore B,Franceschini N,Setacci D,Oratore A,Stefani S,Galleni M,Amicosante G

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00