blaVIM-7, an evolutionarily distinct metallo-beta-lactamase gene in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate from the United States.

abstract：:Disk susceptibility tests with two structurally related aminoglycosides (amikacin and Sch 21420) were evaluated. Tests with 10- and 30-micrograms amikacin disks confirmed previous recommendations for interpretive zone standards; 30-micrograms disks are preferred. Tests with 10-, 20-, and 30-micrograms Sch 21420 disks ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barry AL,Thornsberry C,Jones RN,Gerlach EH

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin is active in vitro against most bacteria that cause peritonitis associated with peritoneal dialysis. We compared the effects of pH (5.5 and 7.4) and medium (dialysis fluid) on the bactericidal activity of ciprofloxacin, tobramycin, vancomycin plus rifampin, and rifampin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Es...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCormick EM,Echols RM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic data on potassium release from and killing of Candida albicans by the four polyene antibiotics amphotericin B, amphotericin B methyl ester hydrochloride, nystatin, and nystatin methyl ester hydrochloride are presented. The nystatins were relatively more effective than the amphotericins in causing potassium rel...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen WC,Chou DL,Feingold DS

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Lactamase production was investigated in cultures of 25 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates isolated at a hospital in Durban, South Africa, in 1994 and 1996. Twenty of these isolates gave ceftazidime MIC/ceftazidime plus clavulanate MIC ratios of >/=8, implying production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Essack SY,Hall LM,Pillay DG,McFadyen ML,Livermore DM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to measure antiretroviral exposures in four physiological compartments during pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum. This prospective, open-label, longitudinal study collected paired blood plasma (BP) and genital tract (GT) aspirates antepartum, at delivery, and up to 12 weeks postpartum. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yeh RF,Rezk NL,Kashuba AD,Dumond JB,Tappouni HL,Tien HC,Chen YC,Vourvahis M,Horton AL,Fiscus SA,Patterson KB

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are conflicting data on the association of vancomycin MIC (VAN-MIC) with treatment outcomes in Staphylococcus aureus infections. We investigated the relationship between high VAN-MIC and 30-day mortality and identified the risk factors for mortality in a large cohort of patients with invasive S. aureus (ISA) inf...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Song KH,Kim M,Kim CJ,Cho JE,Choi YJ,Park JS,Ahn S,Jang HC,Park KH,Jung SI,Yoon N,Kim DM,Hwang JH,Lee CS,Lee JH,Kwak YG,Kim ES,Park SY,Park Y,Lee KS,Lee YS,Kim HB

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Five recombinant alpha interferons and two recombinant beta interferons have been tested for their ability to inhibit yields of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 and human cytomegalovirus in human embryonic lung cells. All of the alpha species and both of the beta forms (cysteine and serine) were active against the h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rasmussen LE,Chen PT,Merigan TC

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for novel antibacterial strategies and the awareness of the importance of quorum sensing (QS) in bacterial infections have stimulated research aimed at identifying QS inhibitors (QSIs). However, clinical application of QSIs identified so far is still distant, likely due to their unsuitability for use in human...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Imperi F,Massai F,Ramachandran Pillai C,Longo F,Zennaro E,Rampioni G,Visca P,Leoni L

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of intravenous (i.v.) benzylpenicillin in term neonates undergoing moderate hypothermia after perinatal asphyxia were evaluated, as they have been unknown until now. A system-specific modeling approach was applied, in which our recently developed covariate model describing developme...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bijleveld YA,de Haan TR,van der Lee JH,Groenendaal F,Dijk PH,van Heijst A,de Jonge RCJ,Dijkman KP,van Straaten HLM,Rijken M,Zonnenberg IA,Cools F,Zecic A,Nuytemans DHGM,van Kaam AH,Mathôt RAA,PharmaCool Study Group.

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:SDZ MRL 953, a new synthetic monosaccharidic lipid A, was investigated in vitro and in vivo for immunopharmacological activities. In experimental models of microbial infections, the compound was highly protective when it was administered prophylactically either once or three times to myelosuppressed or immunocompetent...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lam C,Schütze E,Hildebrandt J,Aschauer H,Liehl E,Macher I,Stütz P

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradyzoite-to-tachyzoite conversion plays a role in the pathogenesis of recrudescence of ocular toxoplasmosis and disease in immunocompromised persons. The currently available medicines are ineffective on cysts and fail to prevent reactivation of latent toxoplasmosis. A previous study showed that the histone deacetyla...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maubon D,Bougdour A,Wong YS,Brenier-Pinchart MP,Curt A,Hakimi MA,Pelloux H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resistance-nodulation-division (RND)-type efflux pump is one of the causes of the multidrug resistance of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. The roles of the RND-type efflux pump in physiological functions and virulence, in addition to antibiotic extrusion, have attracted much attention. In this study, the contribution...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lin YT,Huang YW,Chen SJ,Chang CW,Yang TC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kill-kinetic methods were used to provide data on the bactericidal activity of subinhibitory (0.5x MIC), inhibitory (1x MIC), and suprainhibitory (4x MIC) concentrations of LY146032 against methicillin-susceptible and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. These bactericidal activities were c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Stratton CW,Liu C,Weeks LS

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphodiesterase inhibitor tetrahydrophthalazinone NPD-008 was explored by phenotypic in vitro screening, target validation and ultrastructural approaches against Trypanosoma cruzi NPD-008 displayed activity against different forms and strains of T. cruzi (EC50 = 6.6 - 39.5 μM), increased cAMP levels of T. cruzi ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： de Araújo JS,Peres RB,Bernardino da Silva P,Batista MM,Sterk GJ,Maes L,Caljon G,Leurs R,de Koning HP,Kalejaiye TD,Soeiro MNC

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied polymyxin B resistance in 10 pairs of clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, two of which had developed polymyxin B resistance in vivo. All polymyxin B-resistant isolates had lower growth rates than and substitution mutations in the lpx or pmrB gene compared to their parent isolates. There were signific...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lim TP,Ong RT,Hon PY,Hawkey J,Holt KE,Koh TH,Leong ML,Teo JQ,Tan TY,Ng MM,Hsu LY

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of 87 periodontitis-associated strains of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans to clarithromycin and erythromycin were determined by standard methodology recommended for Haemophilus influenzae. For clarithromycin the MIC at which 90% of the isolates were inhibited was

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Piccolomini R,Catamo G,Di Bonaventura G

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight unrelated clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates resistant to all commonly used antibiotics were subjected to three-dimensional checkerboard microtiter plate dilution and time-kill studies at one-fourth of their MICs of polymyxin B, imipenem, and rifampin. Synergy was demonstrated with combinations of polymyx...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoon J,Urban C,Terzian C,Mariano N,Rahal JJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the entry of three aminoglycosides into inner-ear tissues of the guinea pig after acute and chronic administration were compared: gentamicin toxic to the cochlea and the vestibule, amikacin preferentially cochleotoxic, and netilmicin of low ototoxic liability. During constant intravenous infusion, leve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dulon D,Aran JM,Zajic G,Schacht J

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：:The safety, tolerance, and pharmacokinetics of amphotericin B lipid complex (ABLC) were studied in a cohort of pediatric cancer patients. Six children with hepatosplenic candidiasis (HSC) received 2.5 mg of ABLC/kg of body weight/day for 6 weeks for a total dosage of 105 mg/kg. Mean serum creatinine (0.85 +/- 0.12 mg/...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Walsh TJ,Whitcomb P,Piscitelli S,Figg WD,Hill S,Chanock SJ,Jarosinski P,Gupta R,Pizzo PA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen healthy male volunteers participated in a randomized, balanced, three-way crossover study comparing the pharmacokinetics of cefmetazole, cefoxitin, and cefmetazole with probenecid pretreatment. Single 2-g doses of cefmetazole sodium and cefoxitin sodium were given intravenously as a 5-min infusion. Concentrati...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ko H,Cathcart KS,Griffith DL,Peters GR,Adams WJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin use has increased in response to the advent of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms. It is administered parenterally as an inactive prodrug, colistin methanesulfonate (CMS). Various formulations of CMS and labeling conventions can lead to confusion about colistin dosing, and questions remain abo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Niece KL,Akers KS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study of 2,149 clinicalSalmonellastrains to help document the historical emergence of antimicrobial resistance. There were significant increases in resistance to older drugs, including ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfamethoxazole, and tetracycline, which were most common inS...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tadesse DA,Singh A,Zhao S,Bartholomew M,Womack N,Ayers S,Fields PI,McDermott PF

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial agents disrupt the ecological balance of the normal human microflora. Tigecycline, a member of a new class of antibiotics (glycylcyclines), has been shown to have a potent broad-spectrum activity against most gram-positive and gram-negative aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. The aim of the study was to inve...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nord CE,Sillerström E,Wahlund E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In concert with the development of novel beta-lactams and broad-spectrum cephalosporins, bacterially encoded beta-lactamases have evolved to accommodate the new agents. This study was designed to identify, at the sequence level, the genes responsible for the extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase (ESBL) phenotypes of Escher...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones CH,Tuckman M,Keeney D,Ruzin A,Bradford PA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The class A carbapenemase KPC-6 produces resistance to a broad range of β-lactam antibiotics. This enzyme hydrolyzes penicillins, the monobactam aztreonam, and carbapenems with similar catalytic efficiencies, ranging from 10(5) to 10(6) M(-1) s(-1). The catalytic efficiencies of KPC-6 against cephems vary to a greater...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lamoureaux TL,Frase H,Antunes NT,Vakulenko SB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro activities of erythromycin A, telithromycin, and two investigational ketolides, JNJ-17155437 and JNJ-17155528, were evaluated against clinical bacterial strains, including selected common respiratory tract pathogens. Against 46 macrolide-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains, the MIC(90)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Abbanat D,Webb G,Foleno B,Li Y,Macielag M,Montenegro D,Wira E,Bush K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, susceptibilities were determined for AZD0914, a spiropyrimidinetrione DNA gyrase inhibitor, azithromycin, doxycycline, and levofloxacin against Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma species. The activity of AZD0914 was comparable to that of levofloxacin and doxycycline against Mycoplasma genitalium and Mycoplasma p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Waites KB,Crabb DM,Duffy LB,Huband MD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VT-1161 and VT-1598 are promising investigational tetrazole antifungals that have shown in vitro and in vivo activity against Candida and other fungi. Candida glabrata is a problematic opportunistic pathogen that is associated with high mortality in invasive infection, as well as both intrinsic and rapidly acquired an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nishimoto AT,Whaley SG,Wiederhold NP,Zhang Q,Yates CM,Hoekstra WJ,Schotzinger RJ,Garvey EP,Rogers PD

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates A902 and BM4538, which were resistant to relatively high levels of vancomycin (128 and 64 microg/ml, respectively) and to low levels of teicoplanin (4 microg/ml), and Enterococcus faecalis clinical isolates BM4539 and BM4540, which were resistant to moderate levels of vancomycin ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Depardieu F,Kolbert M,Pruul H,Bell J,Courvalin P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00