Antimicrobial activities of mefloquine and a series of related compounds.

abstract：:Although antimicrobial agents are effective therapy for early Lyme disease, optimal treatment schedules have not been conclusively established. The efficacy of various dosages of eight antibiotics used for borreliosis treatment was evaluated for C3H/HeNCrIBR mice, which reproducibly develop persistent infection, arthr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moody KD,Adams RL,Barthold SW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five strains of Pasteurella multocida from humans and animals were tested for susceptibility to five cephalosporins by a broth dilution method. Cefcanel showed high activity against all isolates (MIC and MBC, less than or equal to 0.64 micrograms/ml). The corresponding figure for cefaclor and cefuroxime was 2.5...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Holst E,Rollof J,Miörner H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the fast-growing species Mycobacterium abscessus are two important human pathogens causing persistent pulmonary infections that are difficult to cure and require long treatment times. The emergence of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains and the high level of intrinsic resistance of M....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gupta R,Rodrigues Felix C,Akerman MP,Akerman KJ,Slabber CA,Wang W,Adams J,Shaw LN,Tse-Dinh YC,Munro OQ,Rohde KH

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro antimicrobial activity of O-demethylfortimicin A (ODMF), a derivative of fortimicin A, was compared with those of fortimicin A and gentamicin against a spectrum of 256 organisms. All three antibiotics were active in low concentrations against all strains of Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter sp., and Staph...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Girolami RL,Stamm JM

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WCK 5222 consists of cefepime combined with zidebactam, a bicyclo-acyl hydrazide β-lactam enhancer antibiotic with a dual action involving binding to Gram-negative bacterial PBP2 and β-lactamase inhibition. We evaluated the in vitro activity of cefepime-zidebactam against 7,876 contemporary (2015) clinical isolates of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sader HS,Castanheira M,Huband M,Jones RN,Flamm RK

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinins are peroxidic antimalarial drugs known to be very potent but highly chemically unstable; they degrade in the presence of ferrous iron, Fe(II)-heme, or biological reductants. Less documented is how this translates into chemical stability and antimalarial activity across a range of conditions applying to in...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Parapini S,Olliaro P,Navaratnam V,Taramelli D,Basilico N

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel ATP synthase inhibitor bedaquiline recently received accelerated approval for treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and is currently being studied as a component of novel treatment-shortening regimens for drug-susceptible and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. In a limited number of bedaquiline-treate...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Almeida D,Ioerger T,Tyagi S,Li SY,Mdluli K,Andries K,Grosset J,Sacchettini J,Nuermberger E

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:LFF571 is a novel semisynthetic thiopeptide antibiotic with potent activity against a variety of Gram-positive pathogens, including Clostridium difficile. In vivo efficacy of LFF571 was compared to vancomycin in a hamster model of C. difficile infection (CDI). Infection was induced in Golden Syrian hamsters using a to...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Trzasko A,Leeds JA,Praestgaard J,Lamarche MJ,McKenney D

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 13-residue dermaseptin S4 derivative K(4)S4(1-13)a (P) was previously shown to kill intraerythrocytic malaria parasites through the lysis of the host cells. In this study, we have sought peptides that will kill the parasite without lysing the erythrocyte. To produce such peptides, 26 compounds of variable structur...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dagan A,Efron L,Gaidukov L,Mor A,Ginsburg H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis and scrub typhus are important causes of acute fever in Southeast Asia. Options for empirical therapy include doxycycline and azithromycin, but it is unclear whether their efficacies are equivalent. We conducted a multicenter, open, randomized controlled trial with adult patients presenting with acute fe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Phimda K,Hoontrakul S,Suttinont C,Chareonwat S,Losuwanaluk K,Chueasuwanchai S,Chierakul W,Suwancharoen D,Silpasakorn S,Saisongkorh W,Peacock SJ,Day NP,Suputtamongkol Y

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a multidrug-resistant pathogen that poses a significant risk to global health today. We have developed a promising new FtsZ-targeting agent (TXA707) with potent activity against MRSA isolates resistant to current standard-of-care antibiotics. We present here result...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ferrer-González E,Kaul M,Parhi AK,LaVoie EJ,Pilch DS

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of three newly developed quinolone drugs (T-3262, NY-198, and fleroxacin [AM-833; RO 23-6240]) against 10 strains of clinically isolated Chlamydia trachomatis were assessed and compared with those of other quinolones and minocycline. T-3262 (MIC for 90% of isolates tested, 0.1 microgram/ml) was...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Maeda H,Fujii A,Nakata K,Arakawa S,Kamidono S

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bay 12-8039, a new 8-methoxy quinolone, was compared with other agents for activity against clinically relevant anaerobes. Bay 12-8039 inhibited 91 and 96% of the 410 test isolates at 2 and 4 micrograms/ml, respectively. Bay 12-8039 had activity comparable to that metronidazole and overall was at least 16-fold more ac...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aldridge KE,Ashcraft DS

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most manifestations of candidiasis are associated with biofilm formation on biological or inanimate surfaces. Candida albicans biofilms are recalcitrant to treatment with conventional antifungal therapies. Here we report on the activity of caspofungin, a new semisynthetic echinocandin, against C. albicans biofilms. Ca...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bachmann SP,VandeWalle K,Ramage G,Patterson TF,Wickes BL,Graybill JR,López-Ribot JL

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 12 strains of Chlamydia pneumoniae to a new quinolone, trovafloxacin, and ofloxacin, doxycycline, erythromycin, and azithromycin were determined. The activity of trovafloxacin was similar to that of ofloxacin, with a MIC at which 90% of the isolates are inhibited and a minimal concentr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Roblin PM,Kutlin A,Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 carrying the R-factor R1 or R6K is resistant to streptomycin. The resistance is due to R-factor-coded enzymes that metabolize the drug. Streptomycin can be inactivated in two ways, either by adenylylation or by phosphorylation; both reactions require adenosine 5'-triphosphate. In this work we sho...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lundbäck AK,Nordström K

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is an important pathogen exclusively for humans and causes typhoid or enteric fever. It has been shown that type IVB pili, encoded by the S. enterica serovar Typhi pil operon located in Salmonella pathogenicity island 7, are important in the pathogenic process. In this study, by using...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Pan Q,Zhang XL,Wu HY,He PW,Wang F,Zhang MS,Hu JM,Xia B,Wu J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of tryptophan-N-formylated gramicidin (NFG) on the growth of Plasmodium berghei in mice was tested in three different experiments. NFG was shown to be capable of inhibiting the growth of the parasite in a dose-dependent way, although its action did not result in elimination of the parasite and was only temp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Otten-Kuipers MA,Franssen FF,Nieuwenhuijs H,Overdulve JP,Roelofsen B,Op den Kamp JA

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:Drug repurposing affords the implementation of new treatments at a moderate cost and under a faster time-scale. Most of the clinical drugs against Leishmania share this origin. The antidepressant sertraline has been successfully assayed in a murine model of visceral leishmaniasis. Nevertheless, sertraline targets in L...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lima ML,Abengózar MA,Nácher-Vázquez M,Martínez-Alcázar MP,Barbas C,Tempone AG,López-Gonzálvez Á,Rivas L

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The most appropriate vancomycin dosing strategy in pediatric patients weighing ≥70 kg (weight based versus non-weight based) to achieve an area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) of ≥400 mg·liter/h and a trough concentration of <20 mg/liter is not known. Population pharmacokinetic analysis determined that dosing...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Moffett BS,Ivaturi V,Morris J,Akcan Arikan A,Dutta A

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated in vitro fluoroquinolone-resistant mutants of the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi. Mutations in parC, which encodes a subunit of topoisomerase IV, were associated with loss of susceptibility to sparfloxacin, moxifloxacin, and Bay-Y3118, but not ciprofloxacin. This is the first description of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Galbraith KM,Ng AC,Eggers BJ,Kuchel CR,Eggers CH,Samuels DS

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Molecular studies have shown that the majority of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus is associated with amino acid substitutions in the cyp51A gene. To obtain insight into azole resistance mutations, the cyp51A gene of 130 resistant and 76 susceptible A. fumigatus isolates was sequenced. Out of 130 azole-resist...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Snelders E,Karawajczyk A,Schaftenaar G,Verweij PE,Melchers WJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Lactam antibiotics that inhibit penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) have been widely used in the treatment of bacterial infections. However, the molecular basis underlying the different inhibitory potencies of β-lactams against specific PBPs is not fully understood. Here, we present the crystal structures of penicill...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jeong JH,Cha HJ,Kim YG

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The indinavir dosage regimen currently used for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children is not based on pharmacokinetic data obtained in the target patient population. The purpose of our study was to characterize indinavir pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in HIV-infected children. Eleven children (ag...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gatti G,Vigano' A,Sala N,Vella S,Bassetti M,Bassetti D,Principi N

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect mouse model was utilized to evaluate the antiviral activity of several compounds against Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus infection in mice. Mice were given various dosages of lysine-stabilized polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid, a tilorone analogue, kethoxal, or mepacrine before a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kuehne RW,Pannier WL,Stephen EL

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacteriaceae producing the OXA-48 carbapenemase are emerging worldwide, leaving few treatment options. Efficacy has been demonstrated in vivo with ceftazidime against a ceftazidime-susceptible OXA-48 isolate but not with imipenem despite maintaining susceptibility. The relationship between phenotype and in vivo ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wiskirchen DE,Nordmann P,Crandon JL,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This randomized, controlled trial was designed to show that a short, 5-day course of pharmacokinetically enhanced amoxicillin-clavulanate at 2,000/125 mg (Augmentin XR) is as effective clinically as a longer, 7-day course of conventional amoxicillin-clavulanate at 875/125 mg (both given twice daily) in the treatment o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sethi S,Breton J,Wynne B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant (Metr) Staphylococcus aureus from five different geographical origins were tested for their susceptibility to 12 non-beta-lactam antibiotics by the broth microdilution technique recommended by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Coumermycin a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aldridge KE,Janney A,Sanders CV

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00