In vitro activity of a new antibiotic, NVP-PDF386 (VRC4887), against Chlamydia pneumoniae.

abstract：:Chryseobacterium gleum (previously included in the Flavobacterium IIb species) is a gram-negative aerobe that is a source of nosocomial infections. An Ambler class B beta-lactamase gene was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli from reference strain C. gleum CIP 103039 that had reduced susceptibility to expanded-sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bellais S,Naas T,Nordmann P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaborbactam (formerly RPX7009) is a new β-lactamase inhibitor based on a cyclic boronic acid pharmacophore with potent inhibitory activity against Klebsiella pneumoniaecarbapenemases (KPC). It has been developed in combination with meropenem. The objective of these studies was to identify the concentrations of both ag...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun D,Rubio-Aparicio D,Nelson K,Dudley MN,Lomovskaya O

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic therapy is the most commonly used strategy to control pathogenic infections; however, it has contributed to the generation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. To circumvent this emerging problem, we are searching for compounds that target bacterial virulence factors rather than their viability. Pseudomonas ae...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yamazaki A,Li J,Zeng Q,Khokhani D,Hutchins WC,Yost AC,Biddle E,Toone EJ,Chen X,Yang CH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative time-kill experiments with Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage (phage) Sb-1 alone and phage-antibiotic combinations (PACs) against two methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains have shown synergy with both daptomycin-phage and vancomycin-phage combinations. PACs prevented development of phage resistan...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kebriaei R,Lev K,Morrisette T,Stamper KC,Abdul-Mutakabbir JC,Lehman SM,Morales S,Rybak MJ

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:There is concern about the rise of antifungal drug resistance, but little is known about comparative biological properties and pathogenicity of drug-resistant strains. We generated fluconazole (FLC; CO23 RFLC)- or micafungin (FK; CO23 RFK)-resistant strains of Candida albicans by treating a FLC- and FK-susceptible str...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Angiolella L,Stringaro AR,De Bernardis F,Posteraro B,Bonito M,Toccacieli L,Torosantucci A,Colone M,Sanguinetti M,Cassone A,Palamara AT

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections are among the main causes of death worldwide, and we lack antivirals for the majority of viruses. Heparin-like sulfated or sulfonated compounds have been known for decades for their ability to prevent infection by heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG)-dependent viruses but only in a reversible way. We h...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cagno V,Gasbarri M,Medaglia C,Gomes D,Clement S,Stellacci F,Tapparel C

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The available treatments for leishmaniasis are less than optimal due to inadequate efficacy, toxic side effects, and the emergence of resistant strains, clearly endorsing the urgent need for discovery and development of novel drug candidates. Ideally, these should act via an alternative mechanism of action to avoid cr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sebastián-Pérez V,Hendrickx S,Munday JC,Kalejaiye T,Martínez A,Campillo NE,de Koning H,Caljon G,Maes L,Gil C

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the polymyxin receptor molecules in the membranes of living microorganisms, fusion of intact Acholeplasma laidlawii B with lipid vesicles was investigated according to the procedure of Grant and McConnell (1973). The naturally polymyxin-resistant A. laidlawii B was treated with phospholipid vesicles prepar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Teuber M,Bader J

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria (CP-GNB) have increasingly spread worldwide, and different families of carbapenemases have been identified in various bacterial species. Here, we report the identification of five VIM metallo-β-lactamase-producing Alcaligenes faecalis isolates associated with a small outb...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Al Laham N,Chavda KD,Cienfuegos-Gallet AV,Kreiswirth BN,Chen L

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol delta22-desaturase has been purified from a strain of Candida glabrata with a disruption in the gene encoding sterol 14alpha-demethylase (cytochrome P-45051; CYP51). The purified cytochrome P-450 exhibited sterol delta22-desaturase activity in a reconstituted system with NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase in dila...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lamb DC,Maspahy S,Kelly DE,Manning NJ,Geber A,Bennett JE,Kelly SL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroresistance is the coexistence of populations with differing nucleotides at a drug resistance locus within a sample of organisms. Although Sanger sequencing is the gold standard for sequencing, it may be less sensitive than deep sequencing for detecting fluoroquinolone heteroresistance in Mycobacterium tuberculos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eilertson B,Maruri F,Blackman A,Herrera M,Samuels DC,Sterling TR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remdesivir was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Remdesivir is the prodrug of an adenosine analogue that inhibits viral replication of several RNA virus families, including Coronaviridae Preclinical data in animal ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aleissa MM,Silverman EA,Paredes Acosta LM,Nutt CT,Richterman A,Marty FM

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans releases a large glycofragment of the Msb2 surface protein (Msb2*) into the growth environment, which protects against the action of human antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) LL-37 and histatin-5. Quantitation of Msb2*/LL-37 interactions by microscale thermophoresis revealed high-a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swidergall M,Ernst AM,Ernst JF

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-positive bacterium Streptomyces noursei ATCC 11455 produces a complex mixture of polyene macrolides generally termed nystatins. Although the structures for nystatins A(1) and A(3) have been reported, the identities of other components of the nystatin complex remain obscure. Analyses of the culture extract fro...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bruheim P,Borgos SE,Tsan P,Sletta H,Ellingsen TE,Lancelin JM,Zotchev SB

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the potency of garenoxacin in selecting resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae mutants by determining its mutant prevention concentration, using strains with and without topoisomerase gene mutations, and compared its potency to that of other quinolones. Garenoxacin had a significantly greater potency against ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yamamoto K,Yanagihara K,Sugahara K,Imamura Y,Seki M,Izumikawa K,Kakeya H,Yamamoto Y,Hirakata Y,Kamihira S,Kohno S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance endorses the use of an early clinical response endpoint as the primary outcome for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) trials. While antibiotics will now be approved for CABP, in practice they will primarily be used to treat patients with community-acquired ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zasowski E,Butterfield JM,McNutt LA,Cohen J,Cosler L,Pai MP,Gottwald J,Chen WZ,Lodise TP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal pentapeptide auristatin PHE was recently shown to interfere with microtubule dynamics and nuclear and cellular division in the opportunistic pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. To gain a broader understanding of the cellular response of C. neoformans to auristatin PHE, mRNA differential display (DD) and r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Woyke T,Berens ME,Hoelzinger DB,Pettit GR,Winkelmann G,Pettit RK

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the spacing of their positive charges, ionenes, a class of quaternary ammonium polymers, increased the interferon-inducing activity of poly(inosinic acid).poly(cytidylic acid) in mouse L-929 cells, whereas they did not enhance poly(inosinic acid).poly(cytidylic acid) induced interferon production in prima...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Clercq ED,Janik B,Sommer RG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacogenetics of antimalarial agents are poorly known, although the application of pharmacogenetics might be critical in optimizing treatment. This population pharmacokinetic-pharmacogenetic study aimed at assessing the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in cytochrome P450 isoenzyme genes (CYP, n...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Staehli Hodel EM,Csajka C,Ariey F,Guidi M,Kabanywanyi AM,Duong S,Decosterd LA,Olliaro P,Beck HP,Genton B

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of tebipenem (TBM), a new oral carbapenem antibiotic, against Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates (n = 202) was compared with those of 15 reference agents. The isolates were classified into five genotypic classes after PCR identification of abnormal pbp1a, pbp2x, and pbp2b genes: (i) penic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kobayashi R,Konomi M,Hasegawa K,Morozumi M,Sunakawa K,Ubukata K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook this study to investigate whether treatment with a higher dose of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) led to greater clinical resolution in patients with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A prospective, observational cohort with neste...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cadena J,Nair S,Henao-Martinez AF,Jorgensen JH,Patterson JE,Sreeramoju PV

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a multidrug-resistant nosocomial pathogen. We showed previously that thiostrepton (TS), a Gram-positive thiopeptide antibiotic, is imported via pyoverdine receptors and synergizes with iron chelator deferasirox (DSX) to inhibit the growth of P. aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii clinical ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chan DCK,Guo I,Burrows LL

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of sparfloxacin, temafloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, tetracycline, cephalothin, penicillin G, and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid against 173 recent clinical bite wound isolates were determined by agar dilution. Sparfloxacin was active against all strains (MIC for ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfing motility is a novel form of surface adaptation exhibited by the nosocomial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the presence of the glycoprotein mucin, which is found in high abundance at mucosal surfaces, especially those of the lungs of cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis patients. Here, we investigated the ada...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sun E,Gill EE,Falsafi R,Yeung A,Liu S,Hancock REW

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal inhibitory concentrations of 45 antimicrobial agents were determined for 14 strains of Bacterium actinomycetem comitans (Actinobacillus actinomycetem-comitans). All the strains showed good susceptibility to tetracyclines and chloramphenicol, but not to lincomycins. Some strains were clearly resistant to pe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Höffler U,Niederau W,Pulverer G

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of five zanamivir-resistant and six oseltamivir-resistant influenza viruses were assessed against four neuraminidase (NA) inhibitors, including peramivir and A-315675, by a fluorometric NA activity inhibition assay. The enzyme activity of a majority of the variants was effectively inhibited by eit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mishin VP,Hayden FG,Gubareva LV

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atovaquone (AV) acts on the malaria parasite by competing with ubiquinol (UQH2) for its union to the mitochondrial bc1 complex, preventing the ubiquinone-8,9 (UQ) redox recycling, which is a necessary step in pyrimidine biosynthesis. This study focused on UQ biosynthesis in Plasmodium falciparum and adopted proof-of-c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verdaguer IB,Crispim M,Zafra CA,Sussmann RAC,Buriticá NL,Melo HR,Azevedo MF,Almeida FG,Kimura EA,Katzin AM

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients (patients A and B) infected with Salmonella typhimurium failed ciprofloxacin therapy, and the posttherapy isolates had reduced susceptibilities to quinolones; 6 of 11 isolates from patient B were also cross-resistant to chemically unrelated agents. No transferable resistance, chloramphenicol-acetylating e...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Piddock LJ,Griggs DJ,Hall MC,Jin YF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repurposing of existing drugs is being pursued as a means by which to accelerate the development of novel regimens for the treatment of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). In the current study, we assessed the activity of the antipsychotic drug thioridazine (TRZ) in combination with the standard...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dutta NK,Pinn ML,Karakousis PC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent antiretroviral pyrimidinediones IQP-0528 (PYD1) and IQP-0532 (PYD2) were formulated in polyurethane intravaginal rings (IVRs) as prophylactic drug delivery systems to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV-1. To aid in the selection of a pyrimidinedione candidate and the optimal loading of the drug in the I...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Johnson TJ,Srinivasan P,Albright TH,Watson-Buckheit K,Rabe L,Martin A,Pau CP,Hendry RM,Otten R,McNicholl J,Buckheit R Jr,Smith J,Kiser PF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00