In vitro antifungal activity of nikkomycin Z in combination with fluconazole or itraconazole.

abstract：:Drug exposure or pharmacodynamic breakpoints refer to a magnitude of drug exposure which separates a population into groups with high and low probabilities of attaining a desired outcome. We used a pharmacodynamic model of disseminated candidiasis to define an in vivo drug exposure breakpoint for flucytosine (5FC) aga...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hope WW,Warn PA,Sharp A,Howard S,Kasai M,Louie A,Walsh TJ,Drusano GL,Denning DW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian serum amyloid A (SAA) is a major acute phase protein that shows a massive increase in plasma concentration during inflammation. In the present study, we demonstrate that the expression of mouse SAA1 in serum was increased when infected with Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen, in a systemic infec...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gong J,Wu J,Ikeh M,Tao L,Zhang Y,Bing J,Nobile CJ,Huang G

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Compound G2 isolated from alfalfa roots was applied topically to skin lesions of guinea pigs experimentally infected with the dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. granulare. After 12 to 15 applications, 80% of the infected lesions were cured, as judged by clinical and microbial criteria, compared with 20% of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Evron R,Guizie M,Zehavi U,Polacheck I

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MICs for 90% of the organisms tested (MIC90S) of 11 antibiotics against 24 clinical isolates of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans were determined by the MIC 2000 system. The lowest MIC90S (16 micrograms/ml) were observed with ceftriaxone and rifampin. The next lowest MIC90S were found with cephapirin, tetracycl...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yogev R,Shulman D,Shulman ST,Glogowski WG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten (0.05%) of 18,628 strains of Streptococcus pyogenes isolated from clinical specimens in the 3 years 1968 to 1970 were resistant to lincomycin and erythromycin. All 10 strains were highly resistant to lincomycin, having minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of 200 mug/ml. There were two degrees of resistanc...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Dixon JM,Lipinski AE

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using measured free fraction and 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) values for the human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitors lopinavir (LPV) and ritonavir (RTV) in tissue culture media with various protein concentrations ranging from 5 to 50%, we estimated serum-free IC50 values for each drug. The range of ser...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hickman D,Vasavanonda S,Nequist G,Colletti L,Kati WM,Bertz R,Hsu A,Kempf DJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of DU-6859a, levofloxacin, ofloxacin, sparfloxacin, and ciprofloxacin against bite wound isolates were determined by the agar dilution method. DU-6859a was the most active compound (MICs, < or = 0.125 microg/ml) against all Pasteurella species, Staphylococcus aureus, and streptococci; anaerobes were sus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM,Hunt Gerardo S,Hudspeth M,Merriam CV

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida infections frequently involve drug-resistant biofilm growth on device surfaces. Glucan synthase gene FKS1 has been linked to triazole resistance in Candida biofilms. We tested the impact of FKS1 modulation on susceptibility to additional antifungal classes. Reduction of FKS1 expression rendered biofilms more s...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nett JE,Crawford K,Marchillo K,Andes DR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The creation of new chemotherapeutic regimens that permit shortening the duration of treatment is a major priority for antituberculosis drug development. In this study, we used the murine model of experimental tuberculosis therapy to determine whether incorporation of the investigational new nitroimidazopyran PA-824 i...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nuermberger E,Rosenthal I,Tyagi S,Williams KN,Almeida D,Peloquin CA,Bishai WR,Grosset JH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alalevonadifloxacin (WCK 2349) is a novel l-alanine ester prodrug of levonadifloxacin that is being developed as an oral fluoroquinolone antibiotic. The primary objective of this study was to determine and compare plasma, epithelial lining fluid (ELF), and alveolar macrophage (AM) concentrations of levonadifloxacin fo...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Rodvold KA,Gotfried MH,Chugh R,Gupta M,Yeole R,Patel A,Bhatia A

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung infections caused by Mycobacterium abscessus are emerging as a global threat to individuals with cystic fibrosis and to other patient groups. Recent evidence for human-to-human transmission worsens the situation. M. abscessus is an intrinsically multidrug-resistant pathogen showing resistance to even standard ant...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Aziz DB,Low JL,Wu ML,Gengenbacher M,Teo JWP,Dartois V,Dick T

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the in vitro activity of piperacillin alone or in combination with the beta-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam against clinical isolates of Legionella species. At an inoculum of approximately 10(4) CFU, tazobactam, piperacillin, and the 8:1 combination had equivalent activities against Legionella spp. At an a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Collins LA,Wennersten CB,Ferraro MJ,Moellering RC Jr,Eliopoulos GM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both primary rabbit kidney cells and human skin fibroblasts, 5-propyl-2'-deoxyuridine proved inhibitory to herpes simplex virus at a concentration as low as 1 micrograms/ml, whereas concentrations higher than 200 micrograms/ml were required to inhibit vaccinia virus replication or normal cell metabolism. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： De Clercq E,Descamps J,Shugar D

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the influence of the lipid/amphotericin B (AMB) ratio and the phospholipid type on the in vitro renal cell toxicity and antifungal efficacy of lipid-associated AMB (L-AMB). L-AMB was prepared at one of two different lipid/AMB ratios (1 and 40) by incubating AMB with empty small unilamellar vesicles, made fr...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Joly V,Bolard J,Saint-Julien L,Carbon C,Yeni P

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 47-kbp plasmid pGFT1 from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Dublin mediated tetracycline resistance via a tet(A) gene located on an integrated copy of a Tn1721-analogous transposon. The integration site of the transposon was located within the reading frame of a fip gene. Plasmid pGFT1 was shown to be co...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Frech G,Schwarz S

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Atazanavir (Reyataz; ATV) is a well-tolerated protease inhibitor (PI) that is indicated as a once-daily treatment for HIV infections. These features of ATV, combined with its virologic potency, make it particularly desirable for the treatment of HIV-infected pediatric patients. The objective of this study was to use a...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hong Y,Kowalski KG,Zhang J,Zhu L,Horga M,Bertz R,Pfister M,Roy A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halocidin is an antimicrobial peptide found in the tunicate. A series of experiments were previously conducted in an attempt to develop a novel antibiotic derived from halocidin, as the peptide was determined to evidence profound antimicrobial activity against a variety of antibiotic-resistant microbes, with significa...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Jang WS,Lee SC,Lee YS,Shin YP,Shin KH,Sung BH,Kim BS,Lee SH,Lee IH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxins are increasingly used as a last-resort class of antibiotics against extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Gram-negative bacteria. However, resistance to polymyxins can emerge with monotherapy. As nephrotoxicity is the major dose-limiting factor for polymyxin monotherapy, dose escalation to suppress the emergence...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Lin YW,Yu HH,Zhao J,Han ML,Zhu Y,Akter J,Wickremasinghe H,Walpola H,Wirth V,Rao GG,Forrest A,Velkov T,Li J

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:P128 is an antistaphylococcal protein, comprising a cell wall-degrading enzymatic region and a Staphylococcus-specific binding region, which possesses specific and potent bactericidal activity against sensitive and drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus To explore P128's ability to kill S. aureus in a range o...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Nair S,Desai S,Poonacha N,Vipra A,Sharma U

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of measles virus (MV) infection has been significantly reduced in many nations through extensive vaccination; however, the virus still causes significant morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Measles outbreaks also occur in some developed countries that have failed to maintain high vaccine cov...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Plemper RK,Doyle J,Sun A,Prussia A,Cheng LT,Rota PA,Liotta DC,Snyder JP,Compans RW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusidic acid (FA), which was approved in the 1960s in many European and Asian countries, has gained renewed interest due to its continued effectiveness against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus As rhabdomyolysis has been reported upon coadministration of FA with statins, we aimed to elucidate the underlying ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gupta A,Harris JJ,Lin J,Bulgarelli JP,Birmingham BK,Grimm SW

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthetic gene cluster of lankamycin (LM), a 14-member macrolide antibiotic, is encoded on the 210-kb linear plasmid pSLA2-L in Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4. LM contains a 3-hydroxy-2-butyl group at the C-13 position, which is different from an ethyl group in erythromycin. The following two possibilities could b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Arakawa K,Kodama K,Tatsuno S,Ide S,Kinashi H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[14C]aztreonam was administered intramuscularly (50 mg/kg) to male and female rats. Groups of 10 rats (five male and five female) were sacrificed at 0.25, 2, 6, and 24 h after dosing. Blood and various tissues were removed from six rats (three male and three female) in each group for determination of total radioactivi...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Singhvi SM,Ita CE,Shaw JM,Migdalof BH

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous mutants of susceptible clinical and laboratory isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae exhibiting reduced susceptibility to evernimicin (SCH27899; MIC, 0.5 to 4.0 mg/liter) were selected on plates containing evernimicin. Four isolates that did not harbor mutations in rplP (which encodes ribosomal protein L16)...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Adrian PV,Mendrick C,Loebenberg D,McNicholas P,Shaw KJ,Klugman KP,Hare RS,Black TA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoprinosine has been reported to decrease progression to AIDS, primarily by preventing Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients, but the mechanism of action is unknown. para-Acetamidobenzoic acid (PAcBA), one component of isoprinosine, is structurally related to para-ami...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kovacs JA,Powell F,Voeller D,Allegra CJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are sensitive to antibiotics in susceptibility testing, but eradication of the infection is difficult. The main reason is the biofilm formation in the airways of patients with CF. The pharmacokinetics (PKs) and pharmacodynamics...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hengzhuang W,Wu H,Ciofu O,Song Z,Høiby N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV), a flavivirus transmitted by mosquitoes, was an almost neglected pathogen until its introduction in the Americas in 2015 and its subsequent explosive spread throughout the continent, where it has infected millions of people. The virus has caused social and sanitary alarm, mainly due to its associatio...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Saiz JC,Martín-Acebes MA

更新日期：2017-05-24 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：:Concomitant treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV is recommended and improves outcomes. Bedaquiline is a novel drug for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB; combined use with antiretroviral drugs, nevirapine, or ritonavir-boosted lopinavir (LPV/r) is anticipated, but no clinical data from coinfected patient...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Svensson EM,Dooley KE,Karlsson MO

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00