Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Review

Get checked abstract Clare L. Booth and Anna Maria Geretti

Prevalence and determinants of transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance in HIV-1 infection
JAC Advance Access published on April 19, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1047-1056; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm082 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original articles

Get checked abstract Maxim V. Afanas'ev, Larisa N. Ikryannikova, Elena N. Il'ina, Sergey V. Sidorenko, Aleksey V. Kuz'min, Elena E. Larionova, Tat'yana G. Smirnova, Larisa N. Chernousova, Eugeny Yu. Kamaev, Sergey N. Skorniakov, Vladimir N. Kinsht, Andrey G. Cherednichenko, and Vadim M. Govorun

Molecular characteristics of rifampicin- and isoniazid-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from the Russian Federation
JAC Advance Access published on April 18, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1057-1064; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm086 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Silpak Biswas, Didier Raoult, and Jean-Marc Rolain

Molecular mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics in Bartonella bacilliformis
JAC Advance Access published on April 21, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1065-1070; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Katie L. Hopkins, Lara Wootton, Martin R. Day, and E. John Threlfall

Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinant qnrS1 found in Salmonella enterica strains isolated in the UK
JAC Advance Access published on April 12, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1071-1075; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm081 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marie-Thérèse Baixench, Naji Aoun, Marie Desnos-Ollivier, Dea Garcia-Hermoso, Stéphane Bretagne, Sandrine Ramires, Christophe Piketty, and Eric Dannaoui

Acquired resistance to echinocandins in Candida albicans: case report and review
JAC Advance Access published on April 27, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1076-1083; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm095 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Masaharu Shinkai, Yolanda S. López-Boado, and Bruce K. Rubin

Clarithromycin has an immunomodulatory effect on ERK-mediated inflammation induced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa flagellin
JAC Advance Access published on April 5, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1096-1101; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Emiliano Salvucci, Lucila Saavedra, and Fernando Sesma

Short peptides derived from the NH₂-terminus of subclass IIa bacteriocin enterocin CRL35 show antimicrobial activity
JAC Advance Access published on April 21, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1102-1108; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm096 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Asmaa Tazi, Hélène Réglier-Poupet, Josette Raymond, Jean-Marie Adam, Patrick Trieu-Cuot, and Claire Poyart

Comparative evaluation of VITEK 2^® for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of group B Streptococcus
JAC Advance Access published on April 17, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1109-1113; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm098 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tigran K. Davtyan, Isabelle S. Hakobyan, Rafael E. Muradyan, Hrachya G. Hovhannisyan, and Emil S. Gabrielyan

Evaluation of amino acids as mediators for the antibacterial activity of iodine-lithium--dextrin in vitro and in vivo
JAC Advance Access published on April 17, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1114-1122; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Paola Andrea Barroso, Jorge Diego Marco, Manuel Calvopina, Hirotomo Kato, Masataka Korenaga, and Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

A trial of immunotherapy against Leishmania amazonensis infection in vitro and in vivo with Z-100, a polysaccharide obtained from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, alone or combined with meglumine antimoniate
JAC Advance Access published on April 16, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1123-1129; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm079 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alexander G. Chiu, Marcelo B. Antunes, James N. Palmer, and Noam A. Cohen

Evaluation of the in vivo efficacy of topical tobramycin against Pseudomonas sinonasal biofilms
JAC Advance Access published on April 3, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1130-1134; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm087 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wallace Lam, James Tjon, Winnie Seto, Allison Dekker, Cecile Wong, Eshetu Atenafu, Ari Bitnun, Valerie Waters, Yvonne Yau, Melinda Solomon, and Felix Ratjen

Pharmacokinetic modelling of a once-daily dosing regimen for intravenous tobramycin in paediatric cystic fibrosis patients
JAC Advance Access published on April 19, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1135-1140; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm097 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Carlo Torti, Giuseppe Lapadula, Pablo Barreiro, Vicente Soriano, Sundhiya Mandalia, Annalisa De Silvestri, Fredy Suter, Franco Maggiolo, Andrea Antinori, Francesco Antonucci, Renato Maserati, Issa El Hamad, Piera Pierotti, Laura Sighinolfi, Guglielmo Migliorino, Nicoletta Ladisa, and Giampiero Carosi on behalf of the Italian MASTER Cohort

CD4+ T cell evolution and predictors of its trend before and after tenofovir/didanosine backbone in the presence of sustained undetectable HIV plasma viral load
JAC Advance Access published on April 13, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1141-1147; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm100 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elisabeth Meyer, Juergen Buttler, Christian Schneider, Egid Strehl, Barbara Schroeren-Boersch, Petra Gastmeier, Henning Ruden, Josef Zentner, Franz D. Daschner, and Frank Schwab

Modified guidelines impact on antibiotic use and costs: duration of treatment for pneumonia in a neurosurgical ICU is reduced
JAC Advance Access published on April 13, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1148-1154; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm088 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nancy J. Hawkings, Fiona Wood, and Christopher C. Butler

Public attitudes towards bacterial resistance: a qualitative study
JAC Advance Access published on April 21, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1155-1160; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antimicrobial practice

Get checked abstract Mohammed Al-Haroni and Nils Skaug

Incidence of antibiotic prescribing in dental practice in Norway and its contribution to national consumption
JAC Advance Access published on April 19, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1161-1166; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm090 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief reports

Get checked abstract Yi-Fang Liu, Chih-Hung Wang, Rajendra Prasad Janapatla, Hsiu-Mei Fu, Hsiu-Mei Wu, and Jiunn-Jong Wu

Presence of plasmid pA15 correlates with prevalence of constitutive MLS_B resistance in group A streptococcal isolates at a university hospital in southern Taiwan
JAC Advance Access published on April 25, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1167-1170; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Annarita Mazzariol, Raffaella Koncan, Luca Agostino Vitali, and Giuseppe Cornaglia

Activities of 16-membered ring macrolides and telithromycin against different genotypes of erythromycin-susceptible and erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus pneumoniae
JAC Advance Access published on April 3, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1171-1176; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm089 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Aldona L. Baltch, Lawrence H. Bopp, William J. Ritz, Phyllis B. Michelsen, S. Betty Yan, Suzane Um, and Raymond P. Smith

Effect of recombinant human activated protein C on the bactericidal activity of human monocytes and modulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the presence of antimicrobial agents
JAC Advance Access published on April 11, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1177-1181; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm080 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract John J. Docherty, Heather A. McEwen, Thomas J. Sweet, Erin Bailey, and Tristan D. Booth

Resveratrol inhibition of Propionibacterium acnes
JAC Advance Access published on April 21, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1182-1184; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm099 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract F. Cafini, L. Aguilar, N. González, M. J. Giménez, M. Torrico, L. Alou, D. Sevillano, P. Vallejo, and J. Prieto

In vitro effect of the presence of human albumin or human serum on the bactericidal activity of daptomycin against strains with the main resistance phenotypes in Gram-positives
JAC Advance Access published on April 5, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1185-1189; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm078 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Warren E. Rose, Michael J. Rybak, Brian T. Tsuji, Glenn W. Kaatz, and George Sakoulas

Correlation of vancomycin and daptomycin susceptibility in Staphylococcus aureus in reference to accessory gene regulator (agr) polymorphism and function
JAC Advance Access published on April 13, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1190-1193; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm091 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Dharmarajan Sriram, Perumal Yogeeswari, Murugesan Dinakaran, and Rathinasababathy Thirumurugan

Antimycobacterial activity of novel 1-(5-cyclobutyl-1,3-oxazol-2-yl)-3-(sub)phenyl/pyridylthiourea compounds endowed with high activity toward multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
JAC Advance Access published on April 20, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1194-1196; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm085 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kathryn O'Brien, Sharon Hillier, Sharon Simpson, Kerenza Hood, and Christopher Butler

An observational study of empirical antibiotics for adult women with uncomplicated UTI in general practice
JAC Advance Access published on April 21, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1200-1203; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mical Paul, Anders D. Nielsen, Elad Goldberg, Steen Andreassen, Evelina Tacconelli, Nadja Almanasreh, Uwe Frank, Roberto Cauda, and Leonard Leibovici on behalf of the TREAT Study Group

Prediction of specific pathogens in patients with sepsis: evaluation of TREAT, a computerized decision support system
JAC Advance Access published on April 21, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1204-1207; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm107 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Special section: Efflux

Get checked abstract B. Rouveix

Clinical implications of multiple drug resistance efflux pumps of pathogenic bacteria
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1208-1209; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl564 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jordi Vila, Sara Martí, and Javier Sánchez-Céspedes

Porins, efflux pumps and multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii
JAC Advance Access published on February 26, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1210-1215; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl509 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jürgen A. Bohnert, Sabine Schuster, Eva Fähnrich, Rainer Trittler, and Winfried V. Kern

Altered spectrum of multidrug resistance associated with a single point mutation in the Escherichia coli RND-type MDR efflux pump YhiV (MdtF)
JAC Advance Access published on October 24, 2006
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1216-1222; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl426 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Abdallah Mahamoud, Jacqueline Chevalier, Sandrine Alibert-Franco, Winfried V. Kern, and Jean-Marie Pagès

Antibiotic efflux pumps in Gram-negative bacteria: the inhibitor response strategy
JAC Advance Access published on January 17, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1223-1229; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl493 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Teresa Quinn, Jean-Michel Bolla, Jean-Marie Pagès, and Séamus Fanning

Antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter: could efflux pump inhibitors control infection?
JAC Advance Access published on November 20, 2006
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1230-1236; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl470 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Leonard Amaral, Marta Martins, and Miguel Viveiros

Enhanced killing of intracellular multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by compounds that affect the activity of efflux pumps
JAC Advance Access published on January 11, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1237-1246; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl500 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael Stavri, Laura J. V. Piddock, and Simon Gibbons

Bacterial efflux pump inhibitors from natural sources
JAC Advance Access published on December 4, 2006
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1247-1260; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl460 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anja Schumacher, Rainer Trittler, Jürgen A. Bohnert, Klaus Kümmerer, Jean-Marie Pagès, and Winfried V. Kern

Intracellular accumulation of linezolid in Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Enterobacter aerogenes: role of enhanced efflux pump activity and inactivation
JAC Advance Access published on September 13, 2006
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1261-1264; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl380 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gerda Szakonyi, Dong Leng, Pikyee Ma, Kim E. Bettaney, Massoud Saidijam, Alison Ward, Saeid Zibaei, Alastair T. Gardiner, Richard J. Cogdell, Patrick Butaye, Anne-Brit Kolsto, John O'Reilly, Ryan J. Hope, Nicholas G. Rutherford, Christopher J. Hoyle, and Peter J. F. Henderson

A genomic strategy for cloning, expressing and purifying efflux proteins of the major facilitator superfamily
JAC Advance Access published on April 5, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1265-1270; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jette E. Kristiansen, Oliver Hendricks, Thomas Delvin, Trine S. Butterworth, Lone Aagaard, Jørn B. Christensen, Vivian C. Flores, and Hendrik Keyzer

Reversal of resistance in microorganisms by help of non-antibiotics
JAC Advance Access published on April 2, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1271-1279; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm071 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence

Z. Al-Doori, P. Goroncy-Bermes, C. G. Gemmell, and D. Morrison

Low-level exposure of MRSA to octenidine dihydrochloride does not select for resistance
JAC Advance Access published on April 17, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1280-1281; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm092 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Samantha Hayman, A. Peter R. Wilson, Mervyn Singer, and Geoffrey Bellingan

Effect of linezolid and teicoplanin on skin staphylococci
JAC Advance Access published on April 5, 2007
J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2007 59: 1281-1282; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm093 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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