Trifluoromethionine, a prodrug designed against methionine gamma-lyase-containing pathogens, has efficacy in vitro and in vivo against Trichomonas vaginalis.

abstract：:Beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa detected only during ceftazidime therapy of cystic fibrosis patients was studied. Evaluation of resistant and susceptible isolates from one patient and resistant laboratory derivatives indicated that elevated beta-lactamase levels were the primary determinant of resista...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schryvers AB,Ogunariwo J,Chamberland S,Godfrey AJ,Rabin HR,Bryan LE

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus infections are associated with high mortality rates and high treatment costs. Limited available antifungals and increasing antifungal resistance highlight an urgent need for new antifungals. Thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) is essential for maintaining redox homeostasis and presents as a promising ta...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marshall AC,Kidd SE,Lamont-Friedrich SJ,Arentz G,Hoffmann P,Coad BR,Bruning JB

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:5-episisomicin (Sch 22591) is a novel semisynthetic aminoglycoside with a spectrum and potency similar to gentamicin in its activity against susceptible bacterial strains, but with increased potency against Pseudomonas, Providencia, and Proteus rettgeri. It is also more active than tobramycin and amikacin against thes...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Waitz JA,Miller GH,Moss E Jr,Chiu PJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teicoplanin is an investigational glycopeptide antibiotic that is structurally and microbiologically similar to vancomycin. Since teicoplanin possesses a very long elimination half-life, the manufacturer suggests that the drug be administered every 12 h for the first day of therapy and once daily thereafter. We studie...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Outman WR,Nightingale CH,Sweeney KR,Quintiliani R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrolide-aminoglycoside-streptothricin (MAS) element, an ∼4.2-kb insertion containing erm(B) and aphA3 resistance determinants, distinguishes Streptococcus pneumoniae transposon Tn1545/Tn6003 from Tn6002. Here, it is shown to be an unstable genetic element that, although it lacks recombinase genes, can exploit lo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Palmieri C,Mingoia M,Massidda O,Giovanetti E,Varaldo PE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MICs of echinocandins against Candida isolates with fks mutations are higher than those for wild-type (WT) isolates. However, the MIC ranges for susceptible and mutant populations overlap or are poorly separated. It was recently reported that a greater separation could be achieved in the presence of serum. To more...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arendrup MC,Rodriguez-Tudela JL,Park S,Garcia-Effron G,Delmas G,Cuenca-Estrella M,Gomez-Lopez A,Perlin DS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacteroides fragilis bacteriocin which inhibits ribonucleic acid (RNA) polymerase activity had a narrow activity spectrum in vivo and only inhibited the growth of certain B. fragilis strains. In vitro the bacteriocin was not specific and inhibited RNA polymerases from widely diverse bacterial genera. RNA polymeras...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mossie KG,Robb FT,Jones DT,Woods DR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the nucleotide sequence of a 6-kb DNA region harboring the recF, orf192, gyrB, and gyrA genes from Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2)155. The amino acid sequences deduced from gyrA and gyrB displayed 89 and 86% identity, respectively, with the DNA gyrase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and 67 and 65% identit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Revel-Viravau V,Truong QC,Moreau N,Jarlier V,Sougakoff W

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:An experimental local infection system has been developed in which exudates are induced with croton oil in granuloma pouches of rats. This system provided a suitable model for the evaluation of the therapeutic effect of two antibiotics, cefazolin and cephalothin. Exudate levels of cefazolin were found to be higher tha...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nishida M,Murakawa T

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many risk factors associated with aminoglycoside nephrotoxicity have been identified in humans and experimental animals. They include an initial high rate of creatinine clearance, high initial peak levels in serum, age, sex, duration of therapy, liver disease, and renal infection. The concomitant administration of ste...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beauchamp D,Pettigrew M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of azlocillin and mezlocillin, new semisynthetic ureido penicillins, was investigated and compared with that of other known beta-lactam antibiotics. At a concentration of 25 mug/ml, azlocillin inhibited 74% of Enterobacter, 97% of Proteus mirabilis, 64% of Citrobacter, 91% of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and 8...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fu KP,Neu HC

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is significant interest in the development of mass spectrometry (MS) methods for antimicrobial resistance protein detection, given the ability of these methods to confirm protein expression. In this work, we studied the performance of a liquid chromatography, tandem MS multiple-reaction monitoring (LC-MS/MS MRM)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang H,Strich JR,Drake SK,Chen Y,Youn JH,Rosenberg AZ,Gucek M,Dekker JP,Suffredini AF

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activities of amphotericin B and two triazoles, Sch 39304 and fluconazole, were tested against Histoplasma capsulatum. In this study Sch 39304 compared favorably with amphotericin B in treating histoplasmosis in normal and leukopenic mice, whereas fluconazole was much less active. The differences in the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kobayashi GS,Travis SJ,Rinaldi MG,Medoff G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the most frequently identified enteric pathogen in patients with nosocomially acquired, antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The drugs most commonly used to treat diseases associated with C. difficile are metronidazole and vancomycin. Most clinical laboratories assume that all C. difficile isolates...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Peláez T,Alcalá L,Alonso R,Rodríguez-Créixems M,García-Lechuz JM,Bouza E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 100 and 97% of Haemophilus influenzae type b strains from major infections were susceptible, respectively, to levels of rifampin and sulfisoxazole attainable in saliva. It is theoretically feasible to eliminate Haemophilus influenzae from the nasopharynx with these drugs. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bannatyne RM,Cheung R

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the in vitro activity of polymyxin B plus imipenem, meropenem, or tigecycline against six KPC-2-producing Enterobacteriaceae strains with high MICs for these antimicrobial agents. Polymyxin B with carbapenems, especially meropenem, were the most active combinations for Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobact...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barth N,Ribeiro VB,Zavascki AP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gyrA and gyrB genes of Chlamydia pneumoniae TW-183 were cloned, and their proteins were purified by use of a fusion system with a maltose-binding protein. The 50% inhibitory concentrations of garenoxacin, sparfloxacin, moxifloxacin, gatifloxacin, and levofloxacin were 10.1, 47.5, 39.6, 64.2, and 156.9 microg/ml, r...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ameyama S,Shinmura Y,Takahata M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artermisinin and its derivatives are now the mainstays of antimalarial treatment; however, their mechanism of action is only poorly understood. We report on the synthesis of a novel series of epoxy-endoperoxides that can be prepared in high yields from simple starting materials. Endoperoxides that are disubstituted wi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： del Pilar Crespo M,Avery TD,Hanssen E,Fox E,Robinson TV,Valente P,Taylor DK,Tilley L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multidrug resistance profiles of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) producers have led to increased clinical polymyxin use. Combination therapy with polymyxins may improve treatment outcomes, but it is uncertain which combinations are most effective. Clinical successes with intravenous minocycline-based com...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Huang D,Yu B,Diep JK,Sharma R,Dudley M,Monteiro J,Kaye KS,Pogue JM,Abboud CS,Rao GG

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of azole antifungals for the treatment of mucosal and systemic Candida glabrata infections has resulted in the selection and/or emergence of resistant strains. The main mechanisms of azole resistance include alterations in the C. glabrata ERG11 gene (CgERG11), which encodes the azole target enzyme, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sanguinetti M,Posteraro B,Fiori B,Ranno S,Torelli R,Fadda G

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PER-2 was the first detected and the second most prevalent extended-spectrum beta-lactamase in clinical pathogens isolated in Argentina and was also reported only in other South American countries. Citrobacter freundii 33587 was isolated in 1999 in Buenos Aires and was resistant to all tested beta-lactams except cepha...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Power P,Di Conza J,Rodríguez MM,Ghiglione B,Ayala JA,Casellas JM,Radice M,Gutkind G

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cattle trypanocide, isometamidium, was readily taken up by inactivated Trypanosoma brucei, while its uptake by living parasites was reduced or inhibited by plasma. In both respects isometamidium differs from diminazene. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Girgis-Takla P,James DM

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of GR-20263, a new aminothiazolyl cephalosporin, was compared with the activities of other beta-lactam antibiotics by using 800 clinical bacterial isolates. GR-20263 was highly active (inhibition of 90% of the isolates between 0.03 and 1 microgram/ml) against the common Enterobacteriaceae and 5 t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Verbist L,Verhaegen J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simocyclinone D8, a coumarin derivative isolated from Streptomyces antibioticus Tü 6040, represents an interesting new antiproliferative agent. It was originally suggested that this drug recognizes the GyrA subunit and interferes with the gyrase catalytic cycle by preventing its binding to DNA. To further characterize...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sissi C,Vazquez E,Chemello A,Mitchenall LA,Maxwell A,Palumbo M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for the analysis of serum chloramphenicol by reversed-phase, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is described. The method involves a preliminary extraction of 0.1 ml of serum with ethyl acetate containing an internal standard, chromatography with a reversed-phase C18 microparticulate column with...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koup JR,Brodsky B,Lau A,Beam TR Jr

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoxicillin when administered with gastric acid suppressors has been shown to be effective in eradication of Helicobacter pylori in 50 to 80% of subjects. The aim of this investigator-blind crossover study was to determine if gastric mucosal amoxicillin uptake was affected by increasing gastric juice pH. Fifteen male ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cardaci G,Lambert JR,King RG,Onishi N,Midolo P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of antibiotic potency against bacterial strains by assessment of their minimum inhibitory concentration normally uses a standardized broth microdilution assay procedure developed more than 50 years ago. However, certain antibiotics require modified assay conditions in order to observe optimal activit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kavanagh A,Ramu S,Gong Y,Cooper MA,Blaskovich MAT

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatographic fractionation of streptovaricin complex yields two stable components enriched (4- to 16-fold) in activity directed against the polycythemic strain of Friend virus; both components apparently contain no streptovaricins. When compared with their unfractionated parent streptovaricin complex, eight individ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Horoszewicz JS,Rinehart KL Jr,Leong SS,Carter WA

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive biochemical testing and 16S rRNA and rpoB sequence analysis revealed that clinical strain CF01Ent1, initially identified as Buttiauxella agrestis by the use of Api 32 biochemical strips, is a new organism in the Enterobacteriaceae family. It produced an inducible AmpC-type beta-lactamase whose sequence share...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bonnet R,Chanal C,Ageron E,Sirot D,De Champs C,Grimont P,Sirot J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00