Effect of subinhibitory antibiotic concentrations on polysaccharide intercellular adhesin expression in biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis.

abstract：:The comparative activities of azithromycin (AZI) and clarithromycin (CLA) against eight Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates were evaluated in the beige mouse model of disseminated infection. Mice were infected intravenously with approximately 10(7) viable MAC isolate. AZI at 100 or 200 mg/kg of body weight or C...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cynamon MH,Klemens SP,Grossi MA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 2 cases of recurrent Campylobacter coli enteritis caused by macrolide- and fluoroquinolone-resistant strains in 2 patients with hypogammaglobulinemia, successfully treated with a prolonged course of fosfomycin-tromethamine with no side effects. Fosfomycin-tromethamine may be a feasible alternative therapy fo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aguilar-Company J,Los-Arcos I,Pigrau C,Rodríguez-Pardo D,Larrosa MN,Rodríguez-Garrido V,Sihuay-Diburga D,Almirante B

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:BAL5788 is the water-soluble prodrug of BAL9141, a novel broad-spectrum cephalosporin with potent bactericidal activities against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. We investigated the safety and pharmacokinetics of BAL5788 in a double-blind, single-as...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schmitt-Hoffmann A,Roos B,Schleimer M,Sauer J,Man A,Nashed N,Brown T,Perez A,Weidekamm E,Kovács P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen derivatives of the Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 strain in which putative drug efflux pumps were genetically inactivated were constructed and characterized. The results indicate that two linked genes encoding the ABC-type transporters SP2073 and SP2075 function together to confer intrinsic resistance to a se...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Robertson GT,Doyle TB,Lynch AS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levofloxacin is increasingly used in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). There are limited pediatric pharmacokinetic data to inform dose selection for children. Children routinely receiving levofloxacin (250-mg adult tablets) for MDR-TB prophylaxis or disease in Cape Town, South Africa, underwe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Denti P,Garcia-Prats AJ,Draper HR,Wiesner L,Winckler J,Thee S,Dooley KE,Savic RM,McIlleron HM,Schaaf HS,Hesseling AC

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Data comparing the treatment outcomes of the two most frequently recommended empirical antibiotic regimens for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)--combination therapy with an extended-spectrum beta-lactam and a macrolide (BL+M) or fluoroquinolone (F) monotherapy--for patients with severe CAP are sparse. The purpose of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lodise TP,Kwa A,Cosler L,Gupta R,Smith RP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moxifloxacin has shown excellent activity against drug-sensitive as well as drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), thus confirming DNA gyrase as a clinically validated target for discovering novel anti-TB agents. We have identified novel inhibitors in the pyrrolamide class which kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis through inhi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： P SH,Solapure S,Mukherjee K,Nandi V,Waterson D,Shandil R,Balganesh M,Sambandamurthy VK,Raichurkar AK,Deshpande A,Ghosh A,Awasthy D,Shanbhag G,Sheikh G,McMiken H,Puttur J,Reddy J,Werngren J,Read J,Kumar M,R M,Chi

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is an important pathogen that shows increasing antimicrobial resistance in isolates from both animals and humans. Our laboratory recently described Salmonella isolates from food animals and humans that expressed an identical plasmid-mediated, AmpC-like beta-lactamase, CMY-2. In the present study, 59 o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Winokur PL,Vonstein DL,Hoffman LJ,Uhlenhopp EK,Doern GV

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoxicillin was studied in normal subjects after intravenous, oral, and intramuscular administration of 250-, 500-, and 1,000-mg doses. Serum drug levels were analyzed using a two-compartment open model, as well as area under the curve (AUC) and urinary recovery. The variations of these pharmacokinetic parameters were...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spyker DA,Rugloski RJ,Vann RL,O'Brien WM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the impact of the piperacillin-tazobactam MIC in the outcome of 39 bloodstream infections due to extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli. All 11 patients with urinary tract infections survived, irrespective of the MIC. For other sources, 30-day mortality was lower for isolates with a M...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Retamar P,López-Cerero L,Muniain MA,Pascual Á,Rodríguez-Baño J,ESBL-REIPI\/GEIH Group.

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Alternate therapies are needed for treatment of secondary bacterial pneumonia following influenza. The immunomodulatory peptide P4 has shown promise in mouse models of primary pneumococcal infection. Mice infected with influenza virus and then challenged with Streptococcus pneumoniae were treated with a combination of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Weeks JN,Boyd KL,Rajam G,Ades EW,McCullers JA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the incidence and type of side effects of minocycline in a double-blind study. A total of 45 volunteers (18 men and 27 women) were given minocycline, and 44 volunteers (23 men and 21 women) were given placebo. The men in both the minocycline and placebo groups were significantly (P < 0.0001) larger than the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fanning WL,Gump DW,Sofferman RA

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:An open, randomized comparison of ofloxacin (200 mg, every 12 h) given orally for 5 days and ceftriaxone (3 g, once daily) given intravenously for 3 days in the treatment of uncomplicated enteric fever was conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Salmonella paratyphi type A was isolated from six patients. Salmonella ty...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Smith MD,Duong NM,Hoa NT,Wain J,Ha HD,Diep TS,Day NP,Hien TT,White NJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight healthy male volunteers received 1 g of either ceftazidime or cefamandole as an intravenous infection. Serial blood samples were taken over the next 8 h. Urine samples were collected over 24 h. Levels of these antibiotics were measured in the fluid of blisters resulting from application of cantharides. The conce...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Armstrong GC,Wise R,Brown RM,Hancox J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of protein binding on drug penetration into blister fluid was evaluated by using cefonicid, ceftizoxime, and cefotaxime. Drug concentrations in a chamber with a high surface area/volume ratio (i.e., paper disk) follow changes in serum more closely than do those in a chamber with a low surface area/volume ra...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shyu WC,Quintiliani R,Nightingale CH,Dudley MN

更新日期：1988-01-01 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 presence and genetic content of integrons were investigated for 37 epidemiologically unrelated multiple-drug-resistant strains of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium from humans. All isolates were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, streptomycin, sulfonamides, and trimethoprim, as well as to ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tosini F,Visca P,Luzzi I,Dionisi AM,Pezzella C,Petrucca A,Carattoli A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonizes the sputum of most adult cystic fibrosis patients, forming difficult-to-eradicate biofilms in which bacteria are protected in their self-produced extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrices. EPS provide biofilms with viscoelastic properties, causing time-dependent relaxation after...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rozenbaum RT,van der Mei HC,Woudstra W,de Jong ED,Busscher HJ,Sharma PK

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro and in vivo activity of FR-31564 [sodium hydrogen 3-(N-hydroxyformamido)propylphosphate] against gram-positive and -negative aerobic and anaerobic bacteria was investigated and compared with that of fosfomycin, cephalexin, carbenicillin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. The in vitro activity of FR-31564...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Neu HC,Kamimura T

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S. aureus combats cell wall antibiotic stress by altered gene expression mediated by various environmental signal sensors. In this study, we examined the transcriptional regulation of trfA, a gene related to mecA of Bacillus subtilis encoding an adaptor protein implicated in multiple roles, notably, proteolysis and ge...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jousselin A,Kelley WL,Barras C,Lew DP,Renzoni A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rapid, continuous method for monitoring the effectiveness of several antibacterial agents in real time, noninvasively, by using a recently described mouse model of chronic biofilm infection (J. L. Kadurugamuwa et al., Infect. Immun. 71:882-890, 2003), which relies on biophotonic imaging of biolumin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kadurugamuwa JL,Sin LV,Yu J,Francis KP,Kimura R,Purchio T,Contag PR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimalarial 9-anilinoacridines are potent inhibitors of parasite DNA topoisomerase II both in vitro and in situ. 3,6-diamino substitution on the acridine ring greatly improves parasiticidal activity against Plasmodium falciparum by targeting DNA topoisomerase II. A series of 9-anilinoacridines were investigated for t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Auparakkitanon S,Noonpakdee W,Ralph RK,Denny WA,Wilairat P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrasensitive assay utilizing high-pressure liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry detection was developed and validated for the quantification of the antiretrovirals atazanavir (ATV), darunavir (DRV), lopinavir (LPV), ritonavir (RTV), and efavirenz (EFV) in human mononuclear cell (MNC) extracts. The assay ut...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Podany AT,Winchester LC,Robbins BL,Fletcher CV

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel algorithm designed for the screening of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), based on faropenem and temocillin disks, was compared to that of the Committee of the Antibiogram of the French Society of Microbiology (CA-SFM), which is based on ticarcillin-clavulanate, imipenem, and temocillin disks. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dortet L,Bernabeu S,Gonzalez C,Naas T

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the widespread occurrence of resistance to sulfonamides among Enterobacteriaceae, some researchers have suggested using trimethoprim (TMP) alone instead of the combination sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (SMX-TMP) in treating infections with TMP-susceptible organisms. To answer whether SMX-TMP suppresses the ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Guerrant RL,Wood SJ,Krongaard L,Reid RA,Hodge RH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic activity of ciprofloxacin, enoxacin, and ofloxacin was evaluated in guinea pigs with acute and chronic experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia. Intratracheal instillations of P. aeruginosa resulted in fatal pneumonia in all untreated animals within 36 h. Among treatment groups (80 mg/kg [body wei...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kemmerich B,Small GJ,Pennington JE

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients undergoing liver transplantation universally experience rapid reinfection of their new liver graft. Current treatment protocols do not prevent graft reinfection and, in addition, an accelerated disease progression is observed. In the present study, we have evaluated a novel st...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Meuleman P,Albecka A,Belouzard S,Vercauteren K,Verhoye L,Wychowski C,Leroux-Roels G,Palmer KE,Dubuisson J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B streptococci are common causative agents of early-onset neonatal sepsis (EOS). Pharmacokinetic (PK) data for penicillin G have been described for extremely preterm neonates but have been poorly described for late-preterm and term neonates. Thus, evidence-based dosing recommendations are lacking. We describe th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Padari H,Metsvaht T,Germovsek E,Barker CI,Kipper K,Herodes K,Standing JF,Oselin K,Tasa T,Soeorg H,Lutsar I

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00