Ribosomal alterations contribute to bacterial resistance against the dipeptide antibiotic TAN 1057.

abstract：:The methionyl-tRNA synthetase (MetRS) is a novel drug target for the protozoan pathogen Giardia intestinalis. This protist contains a single MetRS that is distinct from the human cytoplasmic MetRS. A panel of MetRS inhibitors was tested against recombinant Giardia MetRS, Giardia trophozoites, and mammalian cell lines....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ranade RM,Zhang Z,Gillespie JR,Shibata S,Verlinde CL,Hol WG,Fan E,Buckner FS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of UK31214, a kanamycin B derivative, was studied against 250 recent isolates and compared with other aminoglycosides. Against the Enterobacteriaceae (with the exception of Proteus mirabilis and Providencia stuartii) UK31214 and amikacin had similar degrees of activity (mode minimum inhibitory co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wise R,Andrews JM,Bedford KA

更新日期：1980-03-01 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：:Mycoplasma hominis was highly susceptible to two new quinolones, with MICs for 90% of isolates tested of 0.004 micrograms/ml for WIN 57273 and 0.063 micrograms/ml for sparfloxacin, which were activities much greater than the 1 microgram/ml found for ofloxacin and tetracycline. Although Ureaplasma urealyticum was less ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kenny GE,Cartwright FD

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viridans group streptococci (VGS) are part of the normal flora that may cause bacteremia, often leading to endocarditis. We evaluated daptomycin against four clinical strains of VGS (MICs = 1 or 2 μg/ml) using an in vitro-simulated endocardial vegetation model, a simulated bacteremia model, and kill curves. Daptomycin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Akins RL,Katz BD,Monahan C,Alexander D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on the effectiveness of ceftazidime-avibactam (CAZ-AVI) in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients are limited. The present retrospective observational cohort study, which was conducted in two general intensive care units (ICUs) in central Greece, compared critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsolaki V,Mantzarlis K,Mpakalis A,Malli E,Tsimpoukas F,Tsirogianni A,Papagiannitsis C,Zygoulis P,Papadonta ME,Petinaki E,Makris D,Zakynthinos E

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and penetration into a cantharidine-induced inflammatory exudate of meropenem was studied in six volunteers following a single 1-g intravenous dose. Concentrations in plasma, urine, and the inflammatory exudate were determined by a microbiological assay. The mean elimination half-life of meropenem...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wise R,Logan M,Cooper M,Ashby JP,Andrews JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the occurrence of multidrug resistance in 44 Enterobacter aerogenes and Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates. Efflux was involved in resistance in E. aerogenes isolates more frequently than in K. pneumoniae isolates (100 versus 38% of isolates) and was associated with the expression of phenylalanine...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tran QT,Dupont M,Lavigne JP,Chevalier J,Pagès JM,Sotto A,Davin-Regli A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study summarizes the linezolid susceptibility testing results for 7,429 Gram-positive pathogens from 60 U.S. sites collected during the 2012 sampling year for the LEADER Program. Linezolid showed potent activity when tested against 2,980 Staphylococcus aureus isolates, inhibiting all but 3 at ≤2 μg/ml. Similarly,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mendes RE,Flamm RK,Hogan PA,Ross JE,Jones RN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deduced amino acid sequence of Campylobacter jejuni Tet(O), cloned in Escherichia coli, has shown that it contains the five highly conserved sequences of the GTP-binding domain found in other GTPases. Asn-128 belongs to the G4 motif of such a domain and is involved in hydrogen bonding with the guanine ring of the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grewal J,Manavathu EK,Taylor DE

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the association between previous antibiotic use, particularly long-term prophylaxis, and the occurrence of subsequent resistant infections in children with index infections due to extended-spectrum-cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae We also investigated the concordance...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Das S,Adler AL,Miles-Jay A,Kronman MP,Qin X,Weissman SJ,Burnham CA,Elward A,Newland JG,Selvarangan R,Sullivan KV,Zaoutis T,Zerr DM

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms of resistance to fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, an aminocyclitol, macrolides, a lincosamide, a phenicol, and pleuromutilins were investigated in Mycoplasma bovis For the identification of mutations responsible for the high MICs of certain antibiotics, whole-genome sequencing of 35 M. bovis f...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sulyok KM,Kreizinger Z,Wehmann E,Lysnyansky I,Bányai K,Marton S,Jerzsele Á,Rónai Z,Turcsányi I,Makrai L,Jánosi S,Nagy SÁ,Gyuranecz M

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:lacZ fusion strains were constructed using the promoters of five cell wall stress stimulon genes: pbp2, tcaA, vraSR, sgtB, and lytR. All fusion strains were induced only in the presence of cell wall-active antibiotics, suggesting the potential of these strains for use in high-throughput screening for new cell wall-act...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Steidl R,Pearson S,Stephenson RE,Ledala N,Sitthisak S,Wilkinson BJ,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside 2″-phosphotransferases are the major aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes in clinical isolates of enterococci and staphylococci. We describe a novel aminoglycoside 2″-phosphotransferase from the Gram-negative pathogen Campylobacter jejuni, which shares 78% amino acid sequence identity with the APH(2″)-Ia do...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Toth M,Frase H,Antunes NT,Vakulenko SB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome aa3 concentrations in the cytoplasmic membrane of Bacillus subtilis were altered by growth conditions, and the effects on the membrane potential (delta psi) in whole cells were measured. When cytochrome aa3 was absent, the magnitude of delta psi was not diminished by comparison with the delta psi measured i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arrow AS,Taber HW

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the antiviral action of sulfated polyanions in human immunodeficiency virus and other viral infections, we studied the effect of dextran sulfate and heparin on duck hepatitis B virus infection. These agents do not affect viral uptake and replication in liver cells in vitro or in vivo. Sulfated polyanio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Offensperger WB,Offensperger S,Walter E,Blum HE,Gerok W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of penetration of quinolones through the bacterial outer membrane was studied with lipopolysaccharide-deficient and porin-deficient mutants. The data indicated that the lipopolysaccharide layer might form a permeability barrier for hydrophobic quinolones such as nalidixic acid but not for hydrophilic qui...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hirai K,Aoyama H,Irikura T,Iyobe S,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tilorone is a 50-year-old synthetic small-molecule compound with antiviral activity that is proposed to induce interferon after oral administration. This drug is used as a broad-spectrum antiviral in several countries of the Russian Federation. We have recently described activity in vitro and in vivo against the Ebola...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ekins S,Madrid PB

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon mutagenesis of a clinical isolate of Morganella morganii, G1492 (tigecycline MIC of 4 microg/ml), yielded two insertion knockout mutants for which tigecycline MICs were 0.03 microg/ml. Transposon insertions mapped to acrA, which is constitutively overexpressed in G1492, suggesting a role of the AcrAB efflux...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ruzin A,Keeney D,Bradford PA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INX-08189 is an aryl-phosphoramidate of 6-O-methyl-2'-C-methyl guanosine. INX-08189 was highly potent in replicon assays, with a 50% effective concentration of 10±6 nM against hepatitis C genotype 1b at 72 h. The inhibitory effect on viral replication was rapid, with a 50% effective concentration (EC50) of 35±8 nM at ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vernachio JH,Bleiman B,Bryant KD,Chamberlain S,Hunley D,Hutchins J,Ames B,Gorovits E,Ganguly B,Hall A,Kolykhalov A,Liu Y,Muhammad J,Raja N,Walters CR,Wang J,Williams K,Patti JM,Henson G,Madela K,Aljarah M,Gilles

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) L protein is a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase that contains multiple enzyme activities required for RSV replication. The RSV L inhibitors described in literature are limited by their cytotoxicity or the lack of RSV B subtype coverage. Here, we characterize a new RSV L inhibito...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tiong-Yip CL,Aschenbrenner L,Johnson KD,McLaughlin RE,Fan J,Challa S,Xiong H,Yu Q

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed data for almost 300,000 clinical Escherichia coli urinary isolates (collected in 2009 through 2013) from 127 inpatient and outpatient facilities, to assess antibiotic resistance among Veterans Affairs health care system patients using Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and Centers for Disease Cont...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Morrill HJ,Morton JB,Caffrey AR,Jiang L,Dosa D,Mermel LA,LaPlante KL

更新日期：2017-04-24 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：:During a 6-month period, 21 pairs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates susceptible (pretherapy) and resistant (posttherapy) to antipseudomonal beta-lactam antibiotics were isolated from hospitalized patients. In vivo emergence of beta-lactam resistance was associated with the overexpression of AmpC beta-lactamase in 10 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ziha-Zarifi I,Llanes C,Köhler T,Pechere JC,Plesiat P

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative therapeutic effects of vidarabine (9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyladenine), cyclaradine (the adenosine deaminase-resistant carbocyclic analog of vidarabine), and cyclaradine-5'-methoxyacetate in the parenteral treatment of systemic herpes simplex virus type 1 infections in Swiss mice were determined. Among cont...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shannon WM,Westbrook L,Arnett G,Daluge S,Lee H,Vince R

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic tolerances of bacterial persisters have been attributed to transient dormancy. While persisters have been observed to be growth inhibited prior to antibiotic exposure, we sought to determine whether such a trait was essential to the phenotype. Furthermore, we sought to provide direct experimental eviden...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Orman MA,Brynildsen MP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a rigid (1-h) screening method for the detection of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity with the standard spectrophotometric CAT assay to determine whether CAT-mediated chloramphenicol resistance in Haemophilus influenzae could be determined upon primary isolation. Of 58 H. influenzae cell son...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Azemun P,Stull T,Roberts M,Smith AL

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus that demonstrate resistance to itraconazole (ITZ) have been described previously; however, the prevalence and clinical significance of ITZ resistance are not completely understood. In this study we assessed the ITZ susceptibilities of 128 A. fumigatus isolates that caused invasive inf...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Balajee SA,Weaver M,Imhof A,Gribskov J,Marr KA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinazolinediones (diones) are fluoroquinolone-like inhibitors of bacterial gyrase and DNA topoisomerase IV. To assess activity against mycobacteria, C-8-methoxy dione derivatives were compared with cognate fluoroquinolones by using cultured Mycobacterium smegmatis. Diones exhibited higher MIC values than fluoroquinol...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malik M,Marks KR,Mustaev A,Zhao X,Chavda K,Kerns RJ,Drlica K

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare the whole-genome sequences of two multidrug-resistant clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates recovered in the same patient before (ABIsac_ColiS susceptible to colistin and rifampin only) and after (ABIsac_ColiR resistant to colistin and rifampin) treatment with colistin and rifampin. We decipher all the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rolain JM,Diene SM,Kempf M,Gimenez G,Robert C,Raoult D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00