Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate from a patient in Pennsylvania.

abstract：:The participation of trypanothione in clinical and experimental antimony (Sb) resistance in Leishmania panamensis was examined by using specific inhibitors. Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) significantly reversed the resistance to trivalent Sb (Sb(III)) of promastigotes of experimentally derived Sb-resistant lines, suppor...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goyeneche-Patino DA,Valderrama L,Walker J,Saravia NG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the interference of roxithromycin with NADPH oxidase, the key enzymatic system for oxidant production by human neutrophils. Roxithromycin alters the reconstitution of an active enzyme and impairs the translocation to the outer membrane of the cytosolic components p47-phox and p67-phox. Interestingly, i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Abdelghaffar H,Babin-Chevaye C,Labro MT

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental drug transfer is important for achieving better pharmacotherapy in pregnant women and in fetuses. In the present study, we examined the effects of anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) and anti-HIV drugs on organic anion transport in human placental BeWo cells. The cellular uptake of two fluorescence organic anions, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nabekura T,Kawasaki T,Kamiya Y,Uwai Y

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Piperaquine (PQ) is an important partner drug in antimalarial combination treatments, but the long half-life of PQ raises concerns about drug resistance. Our aim was to investigate the extended antimalarial effect of PQ in a study of drug efficacy, reinoculation outcomes, and parasite viability after the administratio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moore BR,Ilett KF,Page-Sharp M,Jago JD,Batty KT

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two large studies compared posaconazole and fluconazole or itraconazole for prophylaxis in subjects undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or subjects with acute myelogenous leukemia. To assess the impact of prophylaxis on colonization and the development of resistance in Saccharomyces yeasts, i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mann PA,McNicholas PM,Chau AS,Patel R,Mendrick C,Ullmann AJ,Cornely OA,Patino H,Black TA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of mice infected intravenously with Candida albicans were treated intraperitoneally with amphotericin B, caspofungin, or fluconazole, starting at intervals before and after challenge. Survival was longest and tissue burdens were most reduced with early treatment, and survival times fell proportionately as treat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： MacCallum DM,Odds FC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of transmissible plasmids which encode resistance to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole were found among five animal isolates of Salmonella krefeld. This is the first report of plasmid-mediated resistance to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in Salmonella strains isolated in the United States. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mathewson JJ,Murray BE

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For treatment of mild to moderate Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD), oral metronidazole has been recommended as the preferred agent, in part due to concern that vancomycin may be more likely to promote colonization by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). We performed a prospective observational study ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Al-Nassir WN,Sethi AK,Li Y,Pultz MJ,Riggs MM,Donskey CJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[14C]aztreonam was administered intramuscularly (50 mg/kg) to male and female rats. Groups of 10 rats (five male and five female) were sacrificed at 0.25, 2, 6, and 24 h after dosing. Blood and various tissues were removed from six rats (three male and three female) in each group for determination of total radioactivi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singhvi SM,Ita CE,Shaw JM,Migdalof BH

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moxifloxacin has enhanced potency against Staphylococcus aureus, lower propensity to select for resistant mutants, and higher bactericidal activity against highly resistant strains than ciprofloxacin. Despite similar activity against purified S. aureus topoisomerase IV and DNA gyrase, it selects for topoisomerase IV m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ince D,Zhang X,Hooper DC

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the present report, a novel complex class 1 integron, In60, was characterized. Part of this integron includes the bla(CTX-M-9) gene and its downstream nucleotide sequence, which shares 81% and 78% nucleotide identity with those of kluA-1 beta-lactamase and orf3 of K. ascorbata, respectively. Furthermore, a new ins...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sabaté M,Navarro F,Miró E,Campoy S,Mirelis B,Barbé J,Prats G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monophenol monooxygenase (monophenol, dihydroxyphenylalanine:oxygen oxidoreductase EC 1.14.18.1) was studied in melanin-positive and melanin-negative mutants of Streptomyces lincolnensis NCIB 9413, varying in the lincomycin synthesizing ability. The activities of laccase and tyrosine phenol lyase (EC 4.1.99.2) are abs...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Michalik J,Emilianowicz-Czerska W,Switalski L,Raczyńska-Bojanowska K

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pulmonary exacerbations (APE) involving Pseudomonas aeruginosa are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Drug resistance is a significant challenge to treatment. Ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) demonstrates excellent in vitro activity against isolates recovered from CF p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bensman TJ,Wang J,Jayne J,Fukushima L,Rao AP,D'Argenio DZ,Beringer PM

更新日期：2017-09-22 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：:Two hundred fifty isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were evaluated for susceptibility to ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, grepafloxacin, trovafloxacin, and gemifloxacin (SB-265805). Levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and grepafloxacin showed the greatest activity (MIC for 90% of strains tested [MIC(90)] 1 microg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ruiz-Serrano MJ,Alcalá L,Martínez L,Díaz M,Marín M,González-Abad MJ,Bouza E

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of gentamicin in 34 febrile neutropenic patients (40 courses) were compared with those in 40 nonneutropenic patients receiving the drug. No pharmacokinetic differences were seen in half-life, volume of distribution (liter per kilogram; total and ideal body weight), or clearance (milliliter per min...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bianco TM,Dwyer PN,Bertino JS Jr

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical isolate of Bacteroides vulgatus was resistant to tetracycline, clindamycin, ampicillin, cephaloridine, cefoxitin, and other beta-lactam antibiotics except imipenem. beta-Lactam resistance was mediated by a membrane-associated, clavulanate-sensitive cephalosporinase capable of degrading cephalosporins and pe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parker AC,Smith CJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of Streptococcus pneumoniae (1,476 strains) and untypeable Haemophilus influenzae (1,676 strains) to various oral beta-lactam, macrolide-azalide, and fluoroquinolone antimicrobial agents were determined by broth microdilution. Organisms were isolated from specimens obtained from outpatients in six...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jacobs MR,Bajaksouzian S,Zilles A,Lin G,Pankuch GA,Appelbaum PC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unbound drug hypothesis states that only unbound drug concentrations are active and available for clearance, and highly variable results regarding unbound vancomycin fractions have been reported in the literature. We have determined the unbound vancomycin fractions in four different patient groups by a liquid chro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Oyaert M,Spriet I,Allegaert K,Smits A,Vanstraelen K,Peersman N,Wauters J,Verhaegen J,Vermeersch P,Pauwels S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of linezolid and temporin A in the prevention of prosthetic graft infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis with intermediate resistance to glycopeptides was investigated in a subcutaneous rat pouch model. Linezolid and temporin A, alone or combined, greatly reduced the bacterial n...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giacometti A,Cirioni O,Ghiselli R,Orlando F,D'Amato G,Kamysz W,Mocchegiani F,Sisti V,Silvestri C,Łukasiak J,Rocchi M,Saba V,Scalise G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of TR-700 (torezolid) was evaluated against a collection of 660 staphylococcal blood isolates. TR-700 showed excellent activity against all the staphylococci tested. The MIC(50) and MIC(90) values of TR-700, linezolid, daptomycin, and vancomycin against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Betriu C,Morales G,Rodríguez-Avial I,Culebras E,Gómez M,López-Fabal F,Picazo JJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major facilitator superfamily (MFS) efflux pumps have been shown to be important for bacterial cells to cope with biocides such as chlorhexidine (CHX), a widely used molecule in hospital settings. In this work, we evaluated the role of two genes, smvA and smvR, in CHX resistance in Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC). ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Guérin F,Gravey F,Plésiat P,Aubourg M,Beyrouthy R,Bonnet R,Cattoir V,Giard JC

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The penam nucleus can assume two conformations; these are designated open and closed. The synthetic (2,3)-alpha- and (2,3)-beta-methylenepenams can be regarded as analogs of the open and closed conformations, respectively. It has been shown that the beta-methylenepenams are essentially inactive, suggesting that the cl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Christenson JG,Pruess DL,Talbot MK,Keith DD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a veterinary and behavioral survey of chimpanzees from a natural population in Uganda, leaf samples of Trichilia rubescens were collected because of the unusual method of ingestion observed. The methanolic crude extract of T. rubescens leaves exhibited significant antimalarial activity in vitro. Bioassay-dir...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Krief S,Martin MT,Grellier P,Kasenene J,Sévenet T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of zidovudine (ZDV) are established in patients with various stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. This study was conducted to determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of ZDV in patients with asymptomatic HIV infection and liver disease. HIV-infected volunteers with normal renal fu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moore KH,Raasch RH,Brouwer KL,Opheim K,Cheeseman SH,Eyster E,Lemon SM,van der Horst CM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin is a commonly used antibiotic for the treatment of gram-negative-bacterial infections. Bacterial endotoxin is liberated during antibiotic therapy, and we have shown that endotoxemic animals accumulate more aminoglycosides in their renal parenchyma than normal animals. Vasoactive mediators, such as prostagla...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bergeron MG,Bergeron Y,Tardif M,Marchand S,Beauchamp D

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents a fluorescent carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA)-modified microdilution method used for the susceptibility testing of Candida albicans to amphotericin B, fluconazole, ketoconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, and flucytosine. Four different broth microdilution susceptibility testing methods were ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Liao RS,Rennie RP,Talbot JA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentamidine is a second-line agent in the treatment of leishmaniasis whose mode of action and resistance mechanism are not well understood. In this work, we show that the intracellular ABC protein PRP1 (pentamidine resistance protein 1) (ABCC7) can confer resistance to pentamidine in Leishmania sp. parasites in the in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coelho AC,Messier N,Ouellette M,Cotrim PC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) pulmonary infections in people living with cystic fibrosis (CF) are difficult to treat because of the extreme intrinsic resistance of most isolates to a broad range of antimicrobials. Fosmidomycin is an antibacterial and antiparasitic agent that disrupts the isoprenoid biosynthesis p...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Malott RJ,Wu CH,Lee TD,Hird TJ,Dalleska NF,Zlosnik JE,Newman DK,Speert DP

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00