High incidence of erythromycin resistance among clinical isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae in Taiwan.

abstract：:In 1891 Guttmann and Ehrlich (P. Guttmann and P. Ehrlich, Berlin Klin. Wochenschr. 28:953-956, 1891) were the first to report the antimalarial properties of a synthetic, rather than a natural, material when they described the clinical cure of two patients after oral administration of a thiazine dye, methylene blue. Si...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Vennerstrom JL,Makler MT,Angerhofer CK,Williams JA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate CY-1, which was resistant to ceftazidime, harbored a conjugative ca. 250-kb plasmid that contained a class 1 integron with two gene cassettes encoding OXA-32, an OXA-2- type beta-lactamase, and the aminoglycoside acetyltransferase AAC(6')Ib(9). OXA-32 differed from OXA-2 by an L...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Poirel L,Gerome P,De Champs C,Stephanazzi J,Naas T,Nordmann P

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:The susceptibilities of a range of gram-positive and gram-negative microbial pathogens to clofazimine and its analog B669 (0.1 to 32 micrograms/ml), as well as the effects of these agents on membrane phospholipid metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, have been investigated in vitro. Gram-positive b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Van Rensburg CE,Jooné GK,O'Sullivan JF,Anderson R

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to assess the effect of miconazole oral gel on the pharmacokinetics of oral oxycodone. In an open crossover study with two phases, 12 healthy volunteers took a single oral dose of 10 mg of immediate-release oxycodone with or without thrice-daily 85-mg miconazole oral gel treatment. The plasma concentration...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Grönlund J,Saari TI,Hagelberg N,Neuvonen PJ,Olkkola KT,Laine K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the susceptibilities of 77 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to four antibiotics: cefpodoxime, ceftriaxone, penicillin, and tetracycline. All strains were susceptible to ceftriaxone. Cefpodoxime MICs (range, 0.001 to 0.125 micrograms/ml) were parallel to and approximately four times those of ceftriaxone, and...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fekete T,Woodwell J,Cundy KR

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens have specific virulence factors (e.g., toxins) that contribute significantly to the virulence and infectivity of microorganisms within the human hosts. Virulence factors are molecules expressed by pathogens that enable colonization, immunoevasion, and immunosuppression, obtaining nutrients from the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jekle A,Yoon J,Zuck M,Najafi R,Wang L,Shiau T,Francavilla C,Rani SA,Eitzinger C,Nagl M,Anderson M,Debabov D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of intravenous peramivir against influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus infection was evaluated in mice in which the immune system was suppressed by cyclophosphamide (CP) treatment. The mortality rate of the vehicle control group was 100%, and the mice lost 20% of their body weight on average by day 13 postinfecti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kitano M,Kodama M,Itoh Y,Kanazu T,Kobayashi M,Yoshida R,Sato A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated both the structural and functional consequences of modifying the hydrophobic, lipopeptide-mimetic oligo-acyl-lysine (OAK) N(alpha)-hexadecanoyl-l-lysyl-l-lysyl-aminododecanoyl-l-lysyl-amide (c(16)KKc(12)K) to its unsaturated analog hexadecenoyl-KKc(12)K [c(16(omega7))KKc(12)K]. Despite similar tendenci...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sarig H,Rotem S,Ziserman L,Danino D,Mor A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of trifluorothymidine (5-trifluoromethyl-2'-deoxyuridine, F3dThd) on the replication of three mouse cell lines, LM929, Ltk- (and LM929 derivative devoid of cytosolic deoxythymidine [dThd] kinase activity), and Ltk- c139 (a Ltk- derivative which expresses herpes simplex virus type 1-specified dThd kinase su...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wigdahl BL,Parkhurst JR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of 53 clinical isolates of Bacteroides fragilis to cephamycins was examined. Judging from the MICs for 50% of the strains tested, moxalactam was the most active, however, judging from the MICs for 90% of the strains tested, cefbuperazone was more effective than moxalactam. A correlation was observed...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yotsuji A,Minami S,Kakizawa H,Yasuda T,Takai A,Saikawa I,Inoue M,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin activity against Leptospira interrogans serogroup icterohaemorrhagiae was studied in vitro and in an animal model. The MBC of ciprofloxacin was 0.6 microgram/ml. Three of three Syrian hamsters died 8 to 9 days after intraperitoneal challenge with 10(6) leptospires. In contrast, five of six animals given ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shalit I,Barnea A,Shahar A

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2',3'-Dideoxyadenosine (DDA) was shown not only to possess antibacterial activity in vitro against a variety of Enterobacteriaceae, but also to be effective in vivo, DDA was active in experimental mouse infections by the oral route against 5 Salmonella strains, 2 of 3 Arizona strains, 5 of 7 Citrobacter strains, 3 of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beskid G,Eskin B,Cleeland R,Siebelist J,Cappetta A,Hill AD,Geiger RH

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, therapy of eumycetoma in Sudan is still based on surgery combined with prolonged ketoconazole therapy. This usually results in a poor clinical outcome. To determine if posaconazole and terbinafine could offer better therapeutic alternatives, the in vitro susceptibilities of 34 Madurella mycetomatis strains ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： van Belkum A,Fahal AH,van de Sande WW

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determinations of doxycycline 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC50) for 620 isolates from northwest Thailand were performed via the isotopic method, and the data were analyzed by the Bayesian method and distributed into two populations (mean IC50s of 13.15 μM and 31.60 μM). There was no significant difference between t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gaillard T,Sriprawat K,Briolant S,Wangsing C,Wurtz N,Baragatti M,Lavina M,Pascual A,Nosten F,Pradines B

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of BMY-28142, cefbuperazone (BMY-25182; formerly T-1982), and cefpiramide (WY-44635; formerly SM-1652) were compared with those of cefmenoxime, cefoperazone, cefotaxime, ceftizoxime, and moxalactam. BMY-28142 was the most active cephalosporin against the majority of aerobic and facultative...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Khan NJ,Bihl JA,Schell RF,LeFrock JL,Weber SJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Tn10-encoded Tet repressor, which has a highly specific binding capacity for tetracycline, to probe contacts between the drug and protein by chemical interference studies of the antibiotic. For that purpose, the equilibrium association constants of modified tetracyclines with the Tet repressor and Mg2+ cat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Degenkolb J,Takahashi M,Ellestad GA,Hillen W

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mining existing agents that enhance the therapeutic potential of ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitors (EBI) is a promising approach to improve Chagas disease chemotherapy. In this study, we evaluated the effect of ravuconazole, an EBI, combined with amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker, upon Trypanosoma cruzi experimen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Machado YA,Bahia MT,Caldas IS,Mazzeti AL,Novaes RD,Vilas Boas BR,Santos LJS,Martins-Filho OA,Marques MJ,Diniz LF

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B lipid complex for injection (ABLC) is a suspension of amphotericin B complexed with the lipids L-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and L-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol. ABLC is less toxic than amphotericin B deoxycholate (AmB-d), while it maintains the antifungal activity of AmB-d. Acti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Swenson CE,Perkins WR,Roberts P,Ahmad I,Stevens R,Stevens DA,Janoff AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal activity of clindamycin, chloramphenicol, and gentamicin alone and of gentamicin plus clindamycin and gentamicin plus chloramphenicol was studied on 8 strains of Escherichia coli and 10 strains of Bacteroides fragilis isolated from clinical material. Gentamicin did not interfere with the activity of c...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Klastersky J,Husson M

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify the clarithromycin resistance mechanisms of β-lactamase-nonproducing ampicillin-resistant Haemophilus influenzae strains. In all clarithromycin-resistant strains, the transcript level of acrB was significantly elevated, and these strains had a frameshift mutation in acrR Introducti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seyama S,Wajima T,Nakaminami H,Noguchi N

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the development of a prototype antibiotic sensitivity assay to detect drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis using infection by mycobacteriophage to create a novel nucleic acid transcript, a surrogate marker of mycobacterial viability, detected by reverse transcriptase PCR (M. C. Mulvey et al...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mulvey MC,Lemmon M,Rotter S,Lees J,Einck L,Nacy CA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans, an opportunistic fungus, and Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial pathogen, are two clinically relevant biofilm-forming microbes responsible for a majority of catheter-related infections, with such infections often resulting in catheter loss and removal. Not only do these pathogens cause a substantial ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Peters BM,Ward RM,Rane HS,Lee SA,Noverr MC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989 and 1990, a large number of ampicillin-resistant strains of Enterococcus faecium were isolated from infected patients treated at intensive care units in Berlin, Germany. Twenty-five clinical isolates, including five different biotypes as classified by acid production from various sugars and a wide range of sus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Klare I,Rodloff AC,Wagner J,Witte W,Hakenbeck R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular inhibitory substance produced by the marine Alteromonas strain P-31 (NCMB 2144) was isolated and purified. The inhibitor was a macromolecule with a molecular weight of 90,000 estimated by Sephadex G-100 chromatography and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The inhibitory activi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barja JL,Lemos ML,Toranzo AE

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of ceftriaxone was compared with those of other recently introduced beta-lactam antimicrobial agents (cefoperazone, cefotaxime, and moxalactam) and with those of cefoxitin, clindamycin, and metronidazole against 227 strains of anaerobic bacteria. The data obtained in this investigation suggest th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rolfe RD,Finegold SM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial adaptation to external stresses and toxic compounds is a key step in the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains that are a serious threat to human health. Although some of the proteins and regulators involved in antibiotic resistance mechanisms have been described, no information is available to date conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dupont M,James CE,Chevalier J,Pagès JM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid and global emergence of azole resistance in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus has drawn attention. Thus, a thorough understanding of its mechanisms of drug resistance requires extensive exploration. In this study, we found that the loss of the putative calcium-dependent protein-encoding gene algA caus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wei X,Chen P,Gao R,Li Y,Zhang A,Liu F,Lu L

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological modeling of antiparasitic treatment based on a drug's pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties plays an increasingly important role in identifying optimal drug dosing regimens and predicting their potential impact on control and elimination programs. Conventional modeling of treatment relies on m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hodel EM,Kay K,Hastings IM

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the capacity of copper oxide-containing filters to reduce infectious titers of a panel of viruses spiked into culture media. Enveloped, nonenveloped, RNA, and DNA viruses were affected, suggesting the possibility of using copper oxide-containing devices to deactivate a wide spectrum of infectious viruses fou...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Borkow G,Sidwell RW,Smee DF,Barnard DL,Morrey JD,Lara-Villegas HH,Shemer-Avni Y,Gabbay J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00