Synergistic fungistatic effects of lactoferrin in combination with antifungal drugs against clinical Candida isolates.

abstract：:The influence of vancomycin and flavophospholipol (FPL) on the transfer rate of conjugative plasmids harboring the vancomycin resistance operon vanA was determined in several clinical and animal isolates of Enterococcus faecium. FPL significantly inhibited the frequency of transfer of conjugative VanA plasmids up to 7...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Riedl S,Ohlsen K,Werner G,Witte W,Hacker J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-L-2',3'-Dideoxy-5-fluorocytidine (beta-L-FddC), a novel cytidine analog with an unnatural beta-L sugar configuration, has been demonstrated by our group and others to exhibit highly selective in vitro activity against human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 and hepatitis B virus. This encouraging in vitro anti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martin LT,Cretton-Scott E,Schinazi RF,Zhou XJ,McClure HM,Mathe C,Gosselin G,Imbach JL,Sommadossi JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 158 Candida glabrata bloodstream isolates collected from numerous centers in China, a resistance to fluconazole was seen in 8.9%. Three isolates (1.9%) were resistant to all echinocandins. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) revealed that sequence type 7 ([ST7] 65.8%) was the most common type, followed by ST3 (7.6...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hou X,Xiao M,Wang H,Yu SY,Zhang G,Zhao Y,Xu YC

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with AIDS and chronic diarrhea caused by Enterocytozoon bieneusi was successfully treated with nitazoxanide, producing a complete clinical and parasitological response, while off of antiviral therapy. This suggests that nitazoxanide may be effective in treating microsporidiosis caused by E. bieneusi, a disea...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bicart-Sée A,Massip P,Linas MD,Datry A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguably, one of the most common and consequential laboratory tests performed in the world is Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility testing. M. tuberculosis resistance is defined by growth of > or =1% of a bacillary inoculum on the critical concentration of an antibiotic. The critical concentration was chosen base...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gumbo T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenem pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles are significantly different in critically ill patients because of the drastic variability of the patients' physiological parameters. Published population PK studies have mainly focused on specific diseases, and the majority of these studies had small sample sizes. The aim of th...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chen W,Zhang D,Lian W,Wang X,Du W,Zhang Z,Guo D,Zhang X,Zhan Q,Li P

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal elimination of ciprofloxacin in the large bowel was studied in a rabbit model. Segments from the cecum, colon, and sigmoid colon along with their intact blood vessels were isolated and perfused, and their contents were collected over a 90-min period following the administration of a single parenteral do...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Ramon J,Dautrey S,Farinoti R,Carbon C,Rubinstein E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorhexidine (Hibiscrub; ICI) is generally accepted to be effective as an antiseptic hand wash for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), but there is dispute whether the chlorhexidine MIC for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains is higher than that for MSSA strains and, indeed, whether it is...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Cookson BD,Bolton MC,Platt JH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small-colony-variant (SCV) phenotype of Staphylococcus aureus has been associated with difficult-to-treat infections, reduced antimicrobial susceptibility, and intracellular persistence. This study represents a detailed intra- and extracellular investigation of a clinical wild-type (WT) S. aureus strain and its co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sandberg A,Lemaire S,Van Bambeke F,Tulkens PM,Hughes D,von Eiff C,Frimodt-Møller N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty group G streptococcal stains were collected from Chinese children. Susceptibility testing was done by a double-dilution and a disk diffusion method. PCR was used to test drug-resistant genes, and the χ(2) test and definite probability methods were used to test for statistically significant differences among the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yin J,Yu S,Liu X,Li Y,Gao W,Ma X,Yang Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide antibiotics are used as anti-inflammatory agents, e.g., for prevention of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis. Several studies have shown improved outcomes after the addition of macrolides to β-lactam antibiotics for treatment of severe community-acquired pneumonia. How...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kasetty G,Bhongir RKV,Papareddy P,Herwald H,Egesten A

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the lethal action of metronidazole and the formation of acetamide have been studied in a strain of Bacteroides fragilis which is relatively resistant to metronidazole. As with a susceptible strain of B. fragilis, the data are consistent with a model in which a labile intermediate in metronidazole metab...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： McLafferty MA,Koch RL,Goldman P

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyclovir-resistant clinical isolates of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) were analyzed in vitro for their susceptibilities to essential oils of ginger, thyme, hyssop, and sandalwood. All essential oils exhibited high levels of virucidal activity against acyclovir-sensitive strain KOS and acyclovir-resistant HSV-1 ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schnitzler P,Koch C,Reichling J

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Concentration-QTc modeling was applied to pretomanid, a new nitroimidazooxazine antituberculosis drug. Data came from eight phase 2 and phase 3 studies. Besides pretomanid alone, various combinations with bedaquiline, linezolid, moxifloxacin, and pyrazinamide were considered; special attention was given to the bedaqui...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Li H,Salinger DH,Everitt D,Li M,Del Parigi A,Mendel C,Nedelman JR

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical and nutritional requirements of the antibiotic-producing slime mold Physarum gyrosum were examined to develop a liquid medium for this myxomycete. Liquid culture is desired to expedite a useful scale of production of antibiotic materials for ease of isolation and structure study. Culture conditions were s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Taylor RL,Mallette MF

更新日期：1976-10-01 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：:Rifapentine is highly protein bound in blood, but the free, unbound drug is the microbiologically active fraction. In this exploratory study, we characterized the free plasma fraction of rifapentine in 41 patients with tuberculosis. We found a lower total rifapentine concentration but significantly higher free rifapen...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Egelund EF,Weiner M,Singh RP,Prihoda TJ,Gelfond JA,Derendorf H,Mac Kenzie WR,Peloquin CA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albendazole is an anthelmintic drug widely used in the treatment of neurocysticercosis (NCC), an infection of the brain with Taenia solium cysts. However, drug levels of its active metabolite, albendazole sulfoxide (ABZSO), are erratic, likely resulting in decreased efficacy and suboptimal cure rates in NCC. Racemic a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Paredes A,de Campos Lourenço T,Marzal M,Rivera A,Dorny P,Mahanty S,Guerra-Giraldez C,García HH,Nash TE,Cass QB,Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru.

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wastewater is considered a major source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria released into the environment. Here, we characterized carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in wastewater by whole-genome analysis. Wastewater samples (n = 40) were collected from municipal wastewater treatment plants and hospital wast...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gomi R,Matsuda T,Yamamoto M,Chou PH,Tanaka M,Ichiyama S,Yoneda M,Matsumura Y

更新日期：2018-04-26 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：:Using an isogenic system, we have determined the impact that the four promoters known to control bla(TEM) gene expression have on beta-lactamase activity. For both TEM-1 and TEM-30, this activity gradually increased in relation to the presence of promoters P3, Pa/Pb, and P4 upstream of the corresponding gene. Promoter...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lartigue MF,Leflon-Guibout V,Poirel L,Nordmann P,Nicolas-Chanoine MH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibility to linezolid shown by nine Greek isolates of Coxiella burnetii derived from patients with acute Q fever was investigated. MICs of linezolid were compared with those of pefloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, trovafloxacin, doxycycline, and clarithromycin using the shell vial assay. MICs of li...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gikas A,Spyridaki I,Scoulica E,Psaroulaki A,Tselentis Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Using J774 macrophages, the intracellular activities of gentamicin, azithromycin, telithromycin, ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and oritavancin (LY333328) against Staphylococcus aureus (strain ATCC 25923) have been quantitatively assessed in a 24-h model. S. aureus was positively localized in phagolysosomes by confocal ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Seral C,Van Bambeke F,Tulkens PM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevailing resistance mechanism against glycopeptides in Gram-positive pathogens involves reprogramming the biosynthesis of peptidoglycan precursors, resulting in d-alanyl-d-lactate depsipeptide termini. Amycolatopsis balhimycina produces the vancomycin-like glycopeptide balhimycin and therefore has to protect its...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Schäberle TF,Vollmer W,Frasch HJ,Hüttel S,Kulik A,Röttgen M,von Thaler AK,Wohlleben W,Stegmann E

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketoconazole, an oral antimycotic imidazole drug, blocked the transport of electrons in the respiratory chain of Candida albicans under aerobic conditions with different substrates, such as NADH and succinate. This effect was a nonspecific inhibition of NADH oxidases and succinate oxidases. The addition of ketoconazol...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Shigematsu ML,Uno J,Arai T

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desferrioxamine, a safe and effective iron chelator, was evaluated for its antibacterial and antifungal activity. The susceptibilities of 124 urinary tract isolates and 28 clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to desferrioxamine concentrations that are readily achievable in urine were determined. Of all isolates,...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lowy FD,Pollack S,Fadl-Allah N,Steigbigel NH

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic susceptibilities of 43 strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 identified in the summer of 1996 in Japan were investigated. Growth of 90% of O157 strains was inhibited at a concentration of < or = 0.5 micro/ml by several agents including fosfomycin with glucose-6-phosphate. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tsuboi I,Ida H,Yoshikawa E,Hiyoshi S,Yamaji E,Nakayama I,Nonomiya T,Shigenobu F,Shimizu M,O'Hara K,Sawai T,Mizuoka K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of acidification and alkalinization of the urine on the pharmacokinetics of cinoxacin was examined after single 500-mg oral doses were administered to nine healthy male volunteers. Acidic and alkaline conditions were achieved by repeated oral doses of ammonium chloride or sodium bicarbonate, respectively. P...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Barbhaiya RH,Gerber AU,Craig WA,Welling PG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00