Characterization of a Mycobacterium smegmatis mutant lacking penicillin binding protein 1.

abstract：:A method utilizing immobilized major group rhinoviruses and biotinylated soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 has been developed for the detection of capsid binders. Binding measurements indicate a loss in relative affinity of biotinylated soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 for rhinoviruses by capsid binde...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Last-Barney K,Marlin SD,Pal K,Cahill-Feehan C,McNally EJ,Jeanfavre DD,Merluzzi VJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penetration of cefprozil into the middle ear fluid was investigated in patients with chronic otitis media. A total of 89 patients ranging from 7 months to 11 years old participated in the study. The middle ear fluid was removed by ventilation tubes inserted through the tympanic membrane at times ranging from 0.38 to 5...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shyu WC,Haddad J,Reilly J,Khan WN,Campbell DA,Tsai Y,Barbhaiya RH

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of susceptibility of 45 Proteus penneri clinical isolates to 14 antimicrobial agents were evaluated by a macrobroth dilution method. All strains were highly susceptible to ceftizoxime, ceftazidime, moxalactam, cefoxitin, gentamicin, tobramycin, netilmicin, and, with few exceptions, to amikacin, piperacillin, ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fuksa M,Krajden S,Lee A

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytical method for the quantitation of amifloxacin, 6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-1-(methylamino)-7-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-4-oxo-3- quinolinecarboxylic acid, in plasma and urine has been developed. The method involves extraction with chloroform, back-extraction into 0.1 M sodium hydroxide, and subsequent analysis by re...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McCoy LF,Crawmer BP,Benziger DP

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial susceptibility and mechanisms of resistance of 109 Shigella and 40 Salmonella isolates from children with diarrhea in southern Mozambique were assessed. The susceptibility to seven antimicrobial agents was tested by disk diffusion, and mechanisms of resistance were searched by PCR or colorimetric met...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Mandomando I,Jaintilal D,Pons MJ,Vallès X,Espasa M,Mensa L,Sigaúque B,Sanz S,Sacarlal J,Macete E,Abacassamo F,Alonso PL,Ruiz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of HSR-903, an oral quinolone, against 196 recent clinical isolates of respiratory pathogens was evaluated. HSR-903 was 2 to 32 times more active than ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and sparfloxacin against Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant strains, and Streptococcus pneumoniae an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Watanabe A,Tokue Y,Takahashi H,Kikuchi T,Kobayashi T,Gomi K,Fujimura S,Nukiwa T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found a close correlation between viral stavudine (d4T) resistance and resistance to d4T-triphosphate at the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (RT) level. RT from site-directed mutants with 69S-XX codon insertions and/or conventional zidovudine resistance mutations seems to be involved ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lennerstrand J,Stammers DK,Larder BA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of tolerant Streptococcus sanguis and nontolerant Streptococcus mitis infections to penicillin therapy was compared in the rabbit model of endocarditis. The minimal inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of penicillin were 0.1 and 0.1 mug/ml, respectively, for S. mitis and 0.05 and 6.2 mug/ml, respect...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lowy FD,Neuhaus EG,Chang DS,Steigbigel NH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of Staphylococcus aureus to cloxacillin at neutral pH rendered the bacteria more susceptible to subsequent lysis by lysostaphin. This sensitization effect also occurred at lower pH levels which were nonpermissive for the bactericidal action of cloxacillin, but the effect disappeared at pH 5.0. These findings ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Craven N,Anderson JC

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibility of Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonei to cefmetazole was studied by the agar dilution method. At a concentration of 16 micrograms/ml or lower, 44 isolates (96%) of M. fortuitum and 8 isolates (40%) of M. chelonei were inhibited. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Casal MJ,Rodriguez FC,Benavente MC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease and reverse transcriptase (RT) mutations selected by antiretroviral (ARV) drugs requires ongoing reassessment as ARV treatment patterns evolve and increasing numbers of protease and RT sequences of different viral subtypes are published. Accordingly,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shahriar R,Rhee SY,Liu TF,Fessel WJ,Scarsella A,Towner W,Holmes SP,Zolopa AR,Shafer RW

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycobacterial embCAB operon encodes arabinosyl transferases, putative targets of the antimycobacterial agent ethambutol (EMB). Mutations in embB lead to resistance to EMB in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The basis for natural, intrinsic resistance to EMB in nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is not known; neither is ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Alcaide F,Pfyffer GE,Telenti A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential pharmacokinetic interaction between rifampin (Rimactan, Rifadin) and zidovudine (AZT, Retrovir) was investigated in the population of human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients at our hospital. The results from four patients who were on long-term (> or = 6 months) combination therapy with zidovudine an...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Burger DM,Meenhorst PL,Koks CH,Beijnen JH

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum arginine aminopeptidase (RAP) was studied during in vitro excystation. Specific RAP inhibitors were identified by using C. parvum extracts. Amastatin, a series of alpha-aminoboronic acids, and the chelating agents EDTA and 1,10-phenanthrolene, but not endoproteinase inhibitors, blocked enzymatic...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Okhuysen PC,Chappell CL,Kettner C,Sterling CR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A portion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene encoding the beta subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB) was amplified by PCR using degenerate oligonucleotides and used as a hybridization probe to isolate plasmid clones carrying the entire rpoB gene of M. tuberculosis H37Rv, a virulent, rifampin-susceptible strain. Sequenc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Miller LP,Crawford JT,Shinnick TM

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic with potent in vitro activity against gram-positive cocci, including Staphylococcus aureus. This study evaluated the in vitro and in vivo efficacies of daptomycin against two clinical isolates: methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) 277 (vancomycin MIC, 2 microg/ml) and glycopept...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Marco F,de la Mària CG,Armero Y,Amat E,Soy D,Moreno A,del Río A,Almela M,Mestres CA,Gatell JM,Jiménez de Anta MT,Miró JM,Hospital Clinic Experimental Endocarditis Study Group.

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiviral activity of zinc salts against rhinovirus types 1A and 39 was assayed by yield reduction and inhibition of cytopathic effect in cell culture. The findings indicate that the zinc salts tested have low in vitro therapeutic indices and suggest that the possible beneficial effects of zinc lozenges in reducin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Geist FC,Bateman JA,Hayden FG

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to macrolides and ketolides occurs mainly via alterations in RNA moieties of the drug-binding site. Using an A2058G mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis, additional telithromycin resistance was acquired via deletion of 15 residues from protein L22. Molecular modeling, based on the crystal structure of the larg...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Berisio R,Corti N,Pfister P,Yonath A,Böttger EC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have quantified the biological cost of VanA-type glycopeptide resistance due to the acquisition of the resistance operon by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from Enterococcus sp. Exponential growths of recipient strain HIP11713, its transconjugant VRSA-1, VRSA-5, and VRSA-6 were compared in the ab...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Foucault ML,Courvalin P,Grillot-Courvalin C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic treatment for systemic mycoses is severely hampered by the extremely limited number of antifungals. The difficulty of treatment of fungal infections in the central nervous system is further compounded by the poor central nervous system (CNS) penetration of most antifungals due to the blood-brain barrier. O...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhai B,Wu C,Wang L,Sachs MS,Lin X

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide antibiotics like erythromycin can prevent the formation of the 50S ribosomal subunit in growing bacterial cells, in addition to their inhibitory effect on translation. The significance of this novel finding has been further investigated. The 50% inhibitory doses of erythromycin for the inhibition of translat...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Champney WS,Burdine R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem resistance due to KPC has rarely been observed outside the United States. We noticed a sharp increase in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains possessing KPC in Tel Aviv Medical Center from 2004 to 2006. Sixty percent of the isolates belonged to a single clone susceptible only to gentamicin and...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Leavitt A,Navon-Venezia S,Chmelnitsky I,Schwaber MJ,Carmeli Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of carbapenems for treating multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacterial infections has contributed to the global dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). Serine and metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) that hydrolyze carbapenems have become prevalent and endemic in some countries...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bradford PA,Kazmierczak KM,Biedenbach DJ,Wise MG,Hackel M,Sahm DF

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-site enzyme-linked lactate dehydrogenase enzyme immunodetection assay was tested against field isolates of Plasmodium falciparum for assessing in vitro drug susceptibilities to a wide range of antimalarial drugs. Its sensitivity allowed the use of parasite densities as low as 200 parasites/microl of blood. Be...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Brockman A,Singlam S,Phiaphun L,Looareesuwan S,White NJ,Nosten F

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbovir is a novel carbocyclic nucleoside which has been shown to have potent in vitro activity against human immunodeficiency virus, the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Sprague-Dawley male rats were used to investigate the pharmacokinetics and bioavailability of carbovir. Six rats received car...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yeom YH,Remmel RP,Huang SH,Hua M,Vince R,Zimmerman CL

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba spp. are the causative agents of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), which mainly occurs in contact lens wearers, and of skin lesions, granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), and disseminating diseases in the immunocompromised host. AK therapy is complex and irritating for the eye, skin lesions are difficult t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Fürnkranz U,Nagl M,Gottardi W,Köhsler M,Aspöck H,Walochnik J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motility of viable Trichomonas vaginalis organisms is readily demonstrable in a clinical wet mount or cultured specimens. We attempted to determine whether migration is a dynamic process such that the organisms move to avoid exposure to toxic antimicrobial agents. With the use of axenic cultures of T. vaginalis th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sugarman B,Mummaw N

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical blockade of the gp41 fusogenic protein of HIV-1 is one possible strategy by which microbicides could prevent HIV transmission, working early against infection, by inhibiting viral entry into host cells. In this study, we examined the potential of gp41 fusion inhibitors (FIs) as candidate anti-HIV microbicides....

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Harman S,Herrera C,Armanasco N,Nuttall J,Shattock RJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global spread of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-Kp) has been largely associated with sequence type 258 (ST258) and its related variants (clonal group 258 [CG258]). Here we describe the molecular epidemiology of CR-Kp from five tertiary care hospitals in Medellín, the second largest city in Colombia...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ocampo AM,Chen L,Cienfuegos AV,Roncancio G,Chavda KD,Kreiswirth BN,Jiménez JN

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Linezolid was tested against 32 species of uncommonly isolated gram-positive organisms (3,251 strains) by reference MIC methods and found to be highly active (MIC50 range, 0.25 to 2 microg/ml; MIC90 range, 0.25 to 2 microg/ml). Only one isolate (viridans group streptococcus; 0.03% of tested strains) was resistant to l...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jones RN,Stilwell MG,Hogan PA,Sheehan DJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00