Susceptibility to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein is associated with increased fluconazole efficacy against experimental endocarditis due to Candida albicans.

abstract：:Antituberculosis drugs display large pharmacokinetic variability, which may be influenced by several factors, including body size, genetic differences, and drug-drug interactions. We set out to determine these factors, quantify their effect, and determine the dose adjustments necessary for optimal drug concentrations....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sekaggya-Wiltshire C,Chirehwa M,Musaazi J,von Braun A,Buzibye A,Muller D,Gutteck U,Motta I,Calcagno A,Fehr JS,Kambugu A,Castelnuovo B,Lamorde M,Denti P

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-pseudomonas activities of azlocillin and mezlocillin were compared with that of ticarcillin. We measured the minimal inhibitory and minimal bactericidal concentrations of the three drugs against 20 different strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and found significantly lower values for azlocillin than for the oth...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coppens L,Klastersky J

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weak mutators are common among clinical isolates of Escherichia coli. We show that the relative mutation rate and the "evolvability of fluoroquinolone resistance" are related by a power law slope of 1.2 over 3 orders of magnitude. Thus, even weak mutators can drive the evolution of fluoroquinolone resistance under sel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Orlén H,Hughes D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) has been evaluated as a method to prevent colonization and infection in ventilated patients in 40 trials. On the basis of an assumption that cross-infection would be reduced as a consequence of SDD and that this would distort the results of SDD studies that used c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hurley JC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have conducted experiments to determine if one daily injection of netilmicin (NET) would be synergistic with the broad-spectrum cephalosporin ceftriaxone (CRO) in the treatment of experimentally induced endocarditis. Rats with catheter-induced aortic vegetations were infected intravenously with 3 x 10(7) CFU of a b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Francioli PB,Glauser MP

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of Gardnerella vaginalis, Streptococcus agalactiae, Bacteroides spp., and Mobiluncus spp. were screened for resistance to tetracycline and for the presence of the streptococcal tetM determinant. The S. agalactiae and G. vaginalis strains contained DNA sequences homologous to the tetM determinant, whi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roberts MC,Hillier SL,Hale J,Holmes KK,Kenny GE

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Durlobactam (DUR; also known as ETX2514) is a novel β-lactamase inhibitor with broad activity against Ambler class A, C, and D β-lactamases. Addition of DUR to sulbactam (SUL) in vitro restores SUL activity against clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii The safety and pharmacokinetics (PK) of DUR alone and with ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lickliter JD,Lawrence K,O'Donnell J,Isaacs R

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo activities of imipenem, meropenem, and cefepime were studied in a model of rat pneumonia caused by a plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamase ACT-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strain (K. pneumoniae strain 12) and a derivative porin-deficient mutant (K. pneumoniae strain 12dp). No differences between these ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Padilla E,Alonso D,Doménech-Sánchez A,Gomez C,Pérez JL,Albertí S,Borrell N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis and scrub typhus are important causes of acute fever in Southeast Asia. Options for empirical therapy include doxycycline and azithromycin, but it is unclear whether their efficacies are equivalent. We conducted a multicenter, open, randomized controlled trial with adult patients presenting with acute fe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Phimda K,Hoontrakul S,Suttinont C,Chareonwat S,Losuwanaluk K,Chueasuwanchai S,Chierakul W,Suwancharoen D,Silpasakorn S,Saisongkorh W,Peacock SJ,Day NP,Suputtamongkol Y

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filibuvir and VX-222 are nonnucleoside inhibitors (NNIs) that bind to the thumb II allosteric pocket of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Both compounds have shown significant promise in clinical trials and, therefore, it is relevant to better understand their mechanisms of inhibition. In our s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yi G,Deval J,Fan B,Cai H,Soulard C,Ranjith-Kumar CT,Smith DB,Blatt L,Beigelman L,Kao CC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclohexane triones are a novel group of synthetic antibacterial agents that are active against gram-positive bacteria, Haemophilus influenzae, and Mycobacterium smegmatis. In general, these compounds behaved in a manner similar to that of hexachlorophene, inhibiting the transport of low-molecular-weight hydrophil...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lloyd WJ,Broadhurst AV,Hall MJ,Andrews KJ,Barber WE,Wong-Kai-In P

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BEL-1 is an acquired class A extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Belgium which is divergent from other ESBLs (maximum identity of 54% with GES-type enzymes). This enzyme is efficiently inhibited by clavulanate, imipenem, and moxalactam. Crystals of BEL-1 were obt...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pozzi C,De Luca F,Benvenuti M,Poirel L,Nordmann P,Rossolini GM,Mangani S,Docquier JD

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 4,226 Spanish clinical isolates of Candida spp. were analyzed to assess resistance to voriconazole according to breakpoints established by the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (where susceptibility [S] to voriconazole corresponds to a MIC of ≤ 0.12 mg/liter). Resistance was uncomm...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cuenca-Estrella M,Gomez-Lopez A,Cuesta I,Zaragoza O,Mellado E,Rodriguez-Tudela JL,Antifungal Subcommittee of European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:LpxC [UDP-3-O-(R-3-hydroxymyristoyl)-GlcNAc deacetylase] is a metalloamidase that catalyzes the first committed step in the biosynthesis of the lipid A component of lipopolysaccharide. A previous study (H. R. Onishi, B. A. Pelak, L. S. Gerckens, L. L. Silver, F. M. Kahan, M. H. Chen, A. A. Patchett, S. M. Galloway, S....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mdluli KE,Witte PR,Kline T,Barb AW,Erwin AL,Mansfield BE,McClerren AL,Pirrung MC,Tumey LN,Warrener P,Raetz CR,Stover CK

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：:In a randomized, double-blind trial involving patients with uncomplicated influenza A H3N2 subtype virus infection, rimantadine treatment (200 mg/day for 5 days) was associated with significant reductions in nasal secretion viral titers (days 2 through 4), maximal temperature (days 2 and 3), time until defervescence (...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hayden FG,Monto AS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suboptimal doses of amphotericin B in combination with either rifampin or 5-fluorocytosine were better than single-drug therapy in the treatment of disseminated Aspergillus fumigatus infection in mice. Despite the increased effectiveness of combination therapy, none of the therapeutic regimens we used completely eradi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arroyo J,Medoff G,Kobayashi GS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrophobicity and charge of the cell surface of M protein-positive (M+) and the less virulent M protein-negative (M-) strains of type 12 Streptococcus pyogenes have been studied, respectively, by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and free zone electrophoresis. The M+ strain had a more hydrophobic and a more ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tylewska S,Hjertén S,Wadström T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MICs of ofloxacin, sparfloxacin, clarithromycin, azithromycin, and fusidic acid for clinical isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii were determined by the radiometric (BACTEC) method. All drugs except azithromycin elicited MICs for 90% of the strains tested that were lower than previously reported achievable maximum c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Witzig RS,Franzblau SG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cluster of genes involved in antibiotic and heavy metal resistance has been characterized from a clinical isolate of the gram-negative bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. These genes include a macrolide phosphotransferase (mphBM) and a cadmium efflux determinant (cadA), together with the gene cadC coding for its...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Alonso A,Sanchez P,Martínez JL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to isoniazid induced the expression of several secreted proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and immunoblot analyses indicated that two of the prominent isonicotinic acid hydrazide-inducible polypeptides were members of the antigen 85 complex, recently demonstrated...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Garbe TR,Hibler NS,Deretic V

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is generally believed that bactericidal and bacteriostatic drugs should not be combined in vivo, in vitro experiments using the checkerboard dilution technique revealed no antagonism between penicillin/cephalothin and rolitetracycline but rather additive or synergistic activity of either drug combination i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Daschner FD

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs restrict the availability of selected drugs by requiring prior approval. Carbapenems may be among the restricted drugs, but it is unclear if hospitals that restrict availability actually use fewer carbapenems than hospitals that do not restrict use. Nor is it clear if r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pakyz AL,Oinonen M,Polk RE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fortimicins are bicyclic aminoglycoside antibiotics that contain a fortamine moiety instead of the deoxystreptamine found in other aminoglysides. Fortimicin A had a bactericidal effect on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis and was found to inhibit protein synthesis in vivo. In vitro, fortimicin A inhibite...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moreau N,Jaxel C,Le Goffic F

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of quinolones by Escherichia coli JF568, Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 was measured by a modified fluorometric assay (J. S. Chapman and N. H. Georgopapadakou, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 33:27-29, 1989). The quinolones examined were fleroxacin, pefloxacin, norflox...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCaffrey C,Bertasso A,Pace J,Georgopapadakou NH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fleroxacin was administered to seven lactating women as a single oral dose of 400 mg. Plasma, urine, and milk samples were collected for up to 48 h after administration. Drug concentrations were determined by a reversed-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography method and were used for the pharmacokinetic evaluation. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dan M,Weidekamm E,Sagiv R,Portmann R,Zakut H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penamaldic derivatives of amoxicillin, ampicillin, and penicillins G and V, stabilized with Zn(2+), were obtained from a methanolic medium. The enzymatic kinetic results show that the these derivatives elicit reversible inhibition of the enzyme metallo-beta-lactamase from Bacillus cereus, with inhibition constant ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Navarro PG,Osso BQ,Ortiz RG,Martínez De Las Parras PJ,Martínez Puentedura MI,Cabeza González MC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new SHV-derived extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (SHV-24) conferring high-level resistance to ceftazidime but not cefotaxime and cefazolin was identified in Japan. This enzyme was encoded by a transferable 150-kb plasmid from an Escherichia coli clinical isolate. The pI and K(m) for CAZ of this enzyme were 7.5 and 3...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kurokawa H,Yagi T,Shibata N,Shibayama K,Kamachi K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00