Potent and selective activity of a combination of thymidine and 1843U89, a folate-based thymidylate synthase inhibitor, against Plasmodium falciparum.

abstract：:RBX11160 (OZ277) is a fully synthetic peroxidic antimalarial in clinical development. To study the possible mechanisms of action of RBX11160, we have examined its ability to inhibit PfATP6, a sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase and proposed target for semisynthetic peroxidic artemisinin derivatives. RBX11160 inhibit...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Uhlemann AC,Wittlin S,Matile H,Bustamante LY,Krishna S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Letermovir, GW275175X (a benzimidazole), and tomeglovir (Bay38-4766) are chemically unrelated human cytomegalovirus (CMV) terminase complex inhibitors that have been tested in human subjects. UL56 gene mutations are the dominant pathway of letermovir resistance, while UL89 and UL56 mutations are known to confer benzim...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chou S

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of amphotericin B, itraconazole, and miconazole against 101 filamentous fungi from patients with cystic fibrosis were tested by a reproducible microdilution method. Itraconazole was very active against Aspergillus species and Scedosporium species (MIC at which 90% of the isolates were inhi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hennequin C,Benailly N,Silly C,Sorin M,Scheinmann P,Lenoir G,Gaillard JL,Berche P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sterol 14-demethylase P450 (CYP51) of a fluconazole-resistant isolate of Candida albicans, DUMC136, showed reduced susceptibility to this azole but with little change in its catalytic activity. Twelve nucleotide substitutions, resulting in four amino acid changes, were identified in the DUMC136 CYP51 gene in compa...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Asai K,Tsuchimori N,Okonogi K,Perfect JR,Gotoh O,Yoshida Y

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B and N-D-ornithyl amphotericin B methyl ester were compared for therapeutic efficacies against experimentally induced cryptococcal meningitis and Candida albicans endocarditis with pyelonephritis in rabbits. Antifungal activity of the two polyenes in vitro was similar for the yeasts used in these experim...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Perfect JR,Durack DT

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica has emerged as an enteropathogen associated with several types of human infections that often require antimicrobial therapy, but little is known about the antimicrobial susceptibilities of pathogenic strains isolated from humans in Canada. To determine the present patterns of antimicrobial susc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Preston MA,Brown S,Borczyk AA,Riley G,Krishnan C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a multiplex real-time SYBR green-based PCR assay for rapid detection of tet(X) and its variants, including tet(X1) and tet(X2) and high-level tigecycline resistance genes tet(X3), tet(X4), and tet(X5). We showed that the real-time PCR assay developed had high linearity (R2 ≥ 0.996), sensitivity (low detec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fu Y,Liu D,Song H,Liu Z,Jiang H,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), a neglected tropical disease, is fatal without treatment. Pentamidine, a cationic diamidine, has been used to treat first-stage (hemolymphatic) HAT since the 1940s, but it is ineffective against second-stage (meningoencephalitic, or central nervous system [CNS]) infection. Novel di...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yang S,Wenzler T,Miller PN,Wu H,Boykin DW,Brun R,Wang MZ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha interferon and ribavirin are required in combination to achieve a sustained virological response in the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Alpha interferon has direct antiviral activity and also enhances HCV-specific T-cell responses. Ribavirin has little direct activity against HCV but reduces hepa...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barnes E,Salio M,Cerundolo V,Medlin J,Murphy S,Dusheiko G,Klenerman P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There remains an unmet need to address the substantial morbidity and mortality associated with severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP). Recombinant human plasma gelsolin (rhu-pGSN) improves disease outcomes in diverse animal models of infectious and noninfectious inflammation. This blinded dose-escalation safety st...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tannous A,Levinson SL,Bolognese J,Opal SM,DiNubile MJ

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of this study was to develop a standardized experimental assay to enable differential antimicrobial comparisons of test biocidal aerosols. This study represents the first chlorine-matched comparative assessment of the antimicrobial activities of aerosolized sodium hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, and elect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Thorn RM,Robinson GM,Reynolds DM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During its intraerythrocytic phase, the most lethal human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, digests host cell hemoglobin as a source of some of the amino acids required for its own protein synthesis. A number of parasite endopeptidases (including plasmepsins and falcipains) process the globin into small peptid...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cunningham E,Drag M,Kafarski P,Bell A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently cloned a DNA fragment containing a gene cluster that is responsible for the biosynthesis of an antituberculosis antibiotic, D-cycloserine. The gene cluster is composed of 10 open reading frames, designated dcsA to dcsJ. Judging from the sequence similarity between each putative gene product and known ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Uda N,Matoba Y,Kumagai T,Oda K,Noda M,Sugiyama M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancomycin is a renally excreted drug, and its body clearance correlates with creatinine clearance. However, the renal function estimation equation that best predicts vancomycin clearance has not been established yet. The objective of this study was to compare the abilities of different renal function estimation equat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Glatard A,Bourguignon L,Jelliffe RW,Maire P,Neely MN,Goutelle S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of CEM-101, a new fluoroketolide, was determined against Gram-positive organisms with various macrolide susceptibility profiles. Experiments for determination of the MICs and minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBCs), timed killing, single-step and multistep mutation rates, the erythromycin indu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Woosley LN,Castanheira M,Jones RN

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyclovir reduced mortality and organ virus titers in mice inoculated intraperitoneally with 10 50% lethal doses of mouse cytomegalovirus. This susceptibility to acyclovir of a herpesvirus which lacks thymidine kinase is surprising. Alternative phosphorylating enzymes may account for this susceptibility. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wingard JR,Bender WJ,Saral R,Burns WH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclacillin, a new aminosalicylic semisynthetic penicillin, was compared with amoxicillin for the therapy of acute bacterial maxillary sinusitis in 80 patients (ages, 12 to 70 years) in a prospective, double-blind, randomized clinical trial. Direct sinus aspirations for quantitative culture were done for all patients ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Scheld WM,Sydnor A Jr,Farr B,Gratz JC,Gwaltney JM Jr

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanovirin-N (CV-N), an 11-kDa protein originally isolated from the cyanobacterium Nostoc ellipsosporum, potently inactivates diverse strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), HIV-2, simian immunodeficiency virus, and feline immunodeficiency virus. It has been well established that the HIV surface envelo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mori T,Boyd MR

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome aa3 concentrations in the cytoplasmic membrane of Bacillus subtilis were altered by growth conditions, and the effects on the membrane potential (delta psi) in whole cells were measured. When cytochrome aa3 was absent, the magnitude of delta psi was not diminished by comparison with the delta psi measured i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arrow AS,Taber HW

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 477 patients with susceptible Enterobacter spp., 49 subsequently harbored third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacter spp. Broad-spectrum cephalosporins were independent risk factors for resistance (relative risk [OR] = 2.3, P = 0.01); quinolone therapy was protective (OR = 0.4, P = 0.03). There were t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kaye KS,Cosgrove S,Harris A,Eliopoulos GM,Carmeli Y

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cefodizime and cefuroxime on neutrophil phagocytosis and reactive oxygen production in 54 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting were studied. Both drugs were administered twice at a dosage of 40 mg/kg of body weight (pre- and intraoperative). Phagocytic capacity was assessed by me...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wenisch C,Bartunek A,Zedtwitz-Liebenstein K,Hiesmayr M,Parschalk B,Pernerstorfer T,Graninger W

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacodynamic parameters have become increasingly important for the determination of the optimal dosing schedules of antibiotics. In this study, the postantibiotic effects (PAEs), the postantibiotic sub-MIC effects (PA SMEs), and the sub-MIC effects (SMEs) of roxithromycin, clarithromycin, and azithromycin on refere...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Odenholt-Tornqvist I,Löwdin E,Cars O

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrotoxicity was more marked in rats receiving isepamicin at midlight than at middark. And, the once-daily administration at middark induced a lesser degree of nephrotoxicity than the twice-daily injection, which indicates that the once-daily treatment therapy may have potential value in the clinical use of aminogly...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoshiyama Y,Nishikawa S,Sugiyama T,Kobayashi T,Shimada H,Tomonaga F,Ohdo S,Ogawa N,Nakano S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of the new antiviral compound selenazofurin was compared with the known active compounds ribavirin and amantadine against influenza A and B viruses. In experiments with Madin Darby canine kidney cells, selenazofurin inhibited the cytopathic effect and yield of influenza A/NWS/33 virus, with 50% effective dose...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sidwell RW,Huffman JH,Call EW,Alaghamandan H,Cook PD,Robins RK

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography method for the quantitation of sulbactam in plasma, urine, and tissue is described. The assay used the formation of an imidazole derivative followed by extraction with acetonitrile and dichloromethane and used UV absorbance for detection. The mobile phase consisted o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bawdon RE,Madsen PO

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a number of parameters for host defense after the in vitro addition of the antifungal agents ketoconazole, amphotericin B (AMB), and amphotericin B methyl ester (AME). Similar assays were repeated before and after patients received the former two drugs. Viability by trypan blue exclusion, adherence by ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marmer DJ,Fields BT Jr,France GL,Steele RW

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus form vigorous polymicrobial biofilms in serum, which may serve as the source of coinfection in patients. More importantly, S. aureus is highly resistant to vancomycin during polymicrobial biofilm formation, with no decreases in bacterial viability observed with up to 1,600 mi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Harriott MM,Noverr MC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel in vitro tests, assessing the inhibition of schizont maturation, were conducted with 31 fresh isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Thailand, using artemisinin, doxycycline, and combinations of both. The activities of artemisinin and doxycycline are obviously not correlated. Both compounds showed consistent ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sponer U,Prajakwong S,Wiedermann G,Kollaritsch H,Wernsdorfer G,Wernsdorfer WH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic interaction of planktonic and biofilm cells of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa with tobramycin and piperacillin was investigated in a chemostat system. The results indicated that planktonic and young biofilm cells of the 2-day-old chemostat culture of P. aeruginosa were susceptible to killing by chemostat-co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Anwar H,Strap JL,Chen K,Costerton JW

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum genes pfcrt and pfmdr1 are selected by amodiaquine treatment in Africa. To examine the importance of these mutations in amodiaquine-treated Asian parasites, we determined pre- and posttreatment genotypes for amodiaquine treatment failures from a clinical trial in Afghanistan. The...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Beshir K,Sutherland CJ,Merinopoulos I,Durrani N,Leslie T,Rowland M,Hallett RL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00