AAC -- Table of Contents (October 1 2005, 49 [10])

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Contents: October 2005, Volume 49, Issue 10

       Minireviews

       Antiviral Agents

       Clinical Therapeutics

       Experimental Therapeutics

       Susceptibility

       Mechanisms of Action

       Mechanisms of Resistance

       Pharmacology

       Letters

       Errata

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Minireviews:

From the Th1/Th2 Paradigm towards a Toll-Like Receptor/T-Helper Bias
Mihai G. Netea, Jos W. M. Van der Meer, Roger P. Sutmuller, Gosse J. Adema, and Bart-Jan Kullberg
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 3991-3996;
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Antiviral Agents:

Effect of Ribavirin on Intracellular and Plasma Pharmacokinetics of Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection: Results of a Randomized Clinical Study
M. Rodriguez-Torres, F. J. Torriani, V. Soriano, M. J. Borucki, E. Lissen, M. Sulkowski, D. Dieterich, K. Wang, J.-M. Gries, P. G. Hoggard, D. Back for the APRICOT Study Group
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 3997-4008;
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Antiviral Activity of GW678248, a Novel Benzophenone Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
Robert G. Ferris, Richard J. Hazen, Grace B. Roberts, Marty H. St. Clair, Joseph H. Chan, Karen R. Romines, George A. Freeman, Jeffrey H. Tidwell, Lee T. Schaller, Jill R. Cowan, Steven A. Short, Kurt L. Weaver, Dean W. Selleseth, Kelly R. Moniri, and Lawrence R. Boone
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4046-4051;
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Neuraminidase Inhibitor-Resistant Influenza Viruses May Differ Substantially in Fitness and Transmissibility
Hui-Ling Yen, Louise M. Herlocher, Erich Hoffmann, Mikhail N. Matrosovich, Arnold S. Monto, Robert G. Webster, and Elena A. Govorkova
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4075-4084;
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Sophorolipids, Microbial Glycolipids with Anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Sperm-Immobilizing Activities
Vishal Shah, Gustavo F. Doncel, Theodoros Seyoum, Kristin M. Eaton, Irina Zalenskaya, Rena Hagver, Abul Azim, and Richard Gross
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4093-4100;
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Newly Designed Six-Membered Azasugar Nucleotide-Containing Phosphorothioate Oligonucleotides as Potent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Inhibitors
Dong-Seong Lee, Kyeong-Eun Jung, Cheol-Hee Yoon, Hong Lim, and Yong-Soo Bae
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4110-4120;
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Inhibition of Hepatitis C Virus Replication by Antimonial Compounds
Der-Ren Hwang, Ren-Kuo Lin, Guang-Zhou Leu, Tiao-Yin Lin, Tzu-Wen Lien, Ming-Chen Yu, Chau-Ting Yeh, and John T.-A. Hsu
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4197-4202;
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Inhibition of Coreceptor-Independent Cell-to-Cell Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Transmission by a CD4-Immunoglobulin G2 Fusion Protein
Berta Bosch, Julià Blanco, Eduardo Pauls, Imma Clotet-Codina, Mercedes Armand-Ugón, Boyan Grigorov, Delphine Muriaux, Bonaventura Clotet, Jean-Luc Darlix, and José A. Esté
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4296-4304;
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Mutations Conferring Resistance to a Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Inhibitor Alone or in Combination with an HCV Serine Protease Inhibitor In Vitro
Hongmei Mo, Liangjun Lu, Tami Pilot-Matias, Ron Pithawalla, Rubina Mondal, Sherie Masse, Tatyana Dekhtyar, Teresa Ng, Gennadiy Koev, Vincent Stoll, Kent D. Stewart, John Pratt, Pam Donner, Todd Rockway, Clarence Maring, and Akhteruzzaman Molla
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4305-4314;
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Clevudine Inhibits Hepatitis Delta Virus Viremia: a Pilot Study of Chronically Infected Woodchucks
John Casey, Paul J. Cote, Illia A. Toshkov, Chung K. Chu, John L. Gerin, William E. Hornbuckle, Bud C. Tennant, and Brent E. Korba
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4396-4399;
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Clinical Therapeutics:

Evaluating Ciprofloxacin Dosing for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection by Using Clinical Outcome-Based Monte Carlo Simulations
Sheryl Zelenitsky, Robert Ariano, Godfrey Harding, and Alan Forrest
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4009-4014;
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Open-Label Randomized Trial of Oral Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole, Doxycycline, and Chloramphenicol Compared with Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole and Doxycycline for Maintenance Therapy of Melioidosis
Wipada Chaowagul, Wirongrong Chierakul, Andrew J. Simpson, Jennifer M. Short, Kasia Stepniewska, Bina Maharjan, Adul Rajchanuvong, Duangkaew Busarawong, Direk Limmathurotsakul, Allen C. Cheng, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Paul N. Newton, Nicholas J. White, Nicholas P. J. Day, and Sharon J. Peacock
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4020-4025;
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Novel, Single-Dose Microsphere Formulation of Azithromycin versus 7-Day Levofloxacin Therapy for Treatment of Mild to Moderate Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults
Joseph D'Ignazio, Marco A. Camere, Drew E. Lewis, Daniel Jorgensen, and Jeanne D. Breen
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4035-4041;
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Efficacy and Safety of a Novel Once-Daily Extended-Release Ciprofloxacin Tablet Formulation for Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in Women
Jean L. Fourcroy, Bret Berner, Yu-Kun Chiang, Marilou Cramer, Lynne Rowe, and Neal Shore
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4137-4143;
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Low Rates of Cutaneous Adverse Reactions to Alcohol-Based Hand Hygiene Solution during Prolonged Use in a Large Teaching Hospital
M. Graham, R. Nixon, L. J. Burrell, C. Bolger, P. D. R. Johnson, and M. L. Grayson
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4404-4405;
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Experimental Therapeutics:

Efficient Intermittent Rifapentine-Moxifloxacin-Containing Short-Course Regimen for Treatment of Tuberculosis in Mice
N. Veziris, N. Lounis, A. Chauffour, C. Truffot-Pernot, and V. Jarlier
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4015-4019;
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Comparative Efficacies of Quinupristin-Dalfopristin, Linezolid, Vancomycin, and Ciprofloxacin in Treatment, Using the Antibiotic-Lock Technique, of Experimental Catheter-Related Infection Due to Staphylococcus aureus
Andrea Giacometti, Oscar Cirioni, Roberto Ghiselli, Fiorenza Orlando, Federico Mocchegiani, Carmela Silvestri, Alberto Licci, Matteo De Fusco, Mauro Provinciali, Vittorio Saba, and Giorgio Scalise
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4042-4045;
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Evaluation of LBM415 (NVP PDF-713), a Novel Peptide Deformylase Inhibitor, for Treatment of Experimental Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia
Monica Fonseca-Aten, Christine M. Salvatore, Asunción Mejías, Ana M. Ríos, Susana Chávez-Bueno, Kathy Katz, Ana M. Gómez, George H. McCracken, Jr, and R. Doug Hardy
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4128-4136;
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Relationship between the Level of Acquired Resistance to Gentamicin and Synergism with Amoxicillin in Enterococcus faecalis
Elisabeth Aslangul, Raymond Ruimy, Françoise Chau, Louis Garry, Antoine Andremont, and Bruno Fantin
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4144-4148;
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Efficacy and Pharmacodynamics of Flucytosine Monotherapy in a Nonneutropenic Murine Model of Invasive Aspergillosis
D. T. A. te Dorsthorst, P. E. Verweij, J. F. G. M. Meis, and J. W. Mouton
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4220-4226;
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Pharmacodynamics of Moxifloxacin against Anaerobes Studied in an In Vitro Pharmacokinetic Model
Alan R. Noel, Karen E. Bowker, and Alasdair P. MacGowan
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4234-4239;
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Ultrasonically Controlled Release of Ciprofloxacin from Self-Assembled Coatings on Poly(2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate) Hydrogels for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Prevention
P. Norris, M. Noble, I. Francolini, A. M. Vinogradov, P. S. Stewart, B. D. Ratner, J. W. Costerton, and P. Stoodley
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4272-4279;
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Sensitivity of Candida albicans Germ Tubes and Biofilms to Photofrin-Mediated Phototoxicity
Yeissa Chabrier-Roselló, Thomas H. Foster, Nelissa Pérez-Nazario, Soumya Mitra, and Constantine G. Haidaris
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4288-4295;
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Oral Therapy Using Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Antituberculosis Drugs in Guinea Pigs Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Christine M. Johnson, Rajesh Pandey, Sadhna Sharma, G. K. Khuller, Randall J. Basaraba, Ian M. Orme, and Anne J. Lenaerts
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4335-4338;
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Efficacy of Telavancin (TD-6424), a Rapidly Bactericidal Lipoglycopeptide with Multiple Mechanisms of Action, in a Murine Model of Pneumonia Induced by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Noe Reyes, Robert Skinner, Koné Kaniga, Kevin M. Krause, Josephine Shelton, Glenmar P. Obedencio, Alexander Gough, Michael Conner, and Sharath S. Hegde
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4344-4346;
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Efficacy of 2-(3,4-Dimethyl-2,5-Dihydro-1H-Pyrrole-2-yl)-1-Methylethyl Pentanoate in a Murine Model of Invasive Aspergillosis
Rajesh Dabur, S. K. Diwedi, V. Yadav, V. Mishra, Rambir Singh, H. Singh, and G. L. Sharma
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4365-4367;
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Susceptibility:

Susceptibility Patterns and Molecular Identification of Trichosporon Species
Juan L. Rodriguez-Tudela, Teresa M. Diaz-Guerra, Emilia Mellado, Virginia Cano, Cecilia Tapia, Alexander Perkins, Alicia Gomez-Lopez, Laura Rodero, and Manuel Cuenca-Estrella
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4026-4034;
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Comparative Mutant Prevention Concentrations of Pradofloxacin and Other Veterinary Fluoroquinolones Indicate Differing Potentials in Preventing Selection of Resistance
H.-G. Wetzstein
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4166-4173;
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In Vitro and In Vivo Antibacterial Activities of SM-216601, a New Broad-Spectrum Parenteral Carbapenem
Yutaka Ueda, Katsunori Kanazawa, Ken Eguchi, Koji Takemoto, Yoshiro Eriguchi, and Makoto Sunagawa
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4185-4196;
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Antistaphylococcal Activity of Ceftobiprole, a New Broad-Spectrum Cephalosporin
Tatiana Bogdanovich, Lois M. Ednie, Stuart Shapiro, and Peter C. Appelbaum
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4210-4219;
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Antibacterial Activity of REP8839, a New Antibiotic for Topical Use
Ian A. Critchley, Casey L. Young, Kimberley C. Stone, Urs A. Ochsner, Joseph Guiles, Ted Tarasow, and Nebojsa Janjic
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4247-4252;
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In Vitro Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates to Garenoxacin and DA-7867
Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Jorge Castro-Garza, Adrian Rendon, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani, Oliverio Welsh, Sung Hak Choi, Kym Blackwood, and Carmen Molina-Torres
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4351-4353;
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Comparative In Vitro Activity of Ceftobiprole against Staphylococci Displaying Normal and Small-Colony Variant Phenotypes
Christof von Eiff, Alexander W. Friedrich, Karsten Becker, and Georg Peters
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4372-4374;
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In Vitro Activities of Doripenem and Comparator Agents against 364 Anaerobic Clinical Isolates
Hannah M. Wexler, Adrian E. Engel, Daniel Glass, and Calida Li
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4413-4417;
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Mechanisms of Action:

Aptamers That Preferentially Bind Type IVB Pili and Inhibit Human Monocytic-Cell Invasion by Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi
Qin Pan, Xiao-Lian Zhang, Hong-Yan Wu, Pan-Wen He, Fubin Wang, Ming-Sheng Zhang, Jian-Ming Hu, Bing Xia, and Jianguo Wu
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4052-4060;
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Atomic Force Microscopy Study of the Effect of Antimicrobial Peptides on the Cell Envelope of Escherichia coli
M. Meincken, D. L. Holroyd, and M. Rautenbach
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4085-4092;
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Transcriptional Inhibitor of Virulence Factors in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Annick Gauthier, Marilyn L. Robertson, Michael Lowden, J. Antonio Ibarra, José Luis Puente, and B. Brett Finlay
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4101-4109;
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Mode of Action and Biochemical Characterization of REP8839, a Novel Inhibitor of Methionyl-tRNA Synthetase
Urs A. Ochsner, Casey L. Young, Kimberley C. Stone, Frank B. Dean, Nebojsa Janjic, and Ian A. Critchley
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4253-4262;
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Epigallocatechin Gallate Inhibits Biofilm Formation by Ocular Staphylococcal Isolates
Anna Rita Blanco, Andrea Sudano-Roccaro, Giovanna Carmela Spoto, Antonia Nostro, and Dario Rusciano
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4339-4343;
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Effect of Amphotericin B on Capsule and Cell Size in Cryptococcus neoformans during Murine Infection
Oscar Zaragoza, Coralia Mihu, Arturo Casadevall, and Joshua D. Nosanchuk
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4358-4361;
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Mechanisms of Resistance:

Ceftiofur-Resistant Salmonella Strains Isolated from Dairy Farms Represent Multiple Widely Distributed Subtypes That Evolved by Independent Horizontal Gene Transfer
S. D. Alcaine, S. S. Sukhnanand, L. D. Warnick, W.-L. Su, P. McGann, P. McDonough, and M. Wiedmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4061-4067;
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Molecular Characterization of Isoniazid-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Collected in Australia
Caroline Lavender, Maria Globan, Aina Sievers, Helen Billman-Jacobe, and Janet Fyfe
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4068-4074;
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Resistance to Antimicrobial Peptides and Stress Response in Mycoplasma pulmonis
Lina Fassi Fehri, Pascal Sirand-Pugnet, Géraldine Gourgues, Gwenaël Jan, Henri Wróblewski, and Alain Blanchard
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4154-4165;
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Characterization of the Naturally Occurring Oxacillinase of Acinetobacter baumannii
Claire Héritier, Laurent Poirel, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult, and Patrice Nordmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4174-4179;
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Prevalence and Molecular Genetics of Macrolide Resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates Collected in Finland in 2002
M. Rantala, S. Huikko, P. Huovinen, J. Jalava the Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4180-4184;
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Macrolide Efflux in Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Mediated by a Dual Efflux Pump (mel and mef) and Is Erythromycin Inducible
Karita D. Ambrose, Rebecca Nisbet, and David S. Stephens
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4203-4209;
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Glycopeptide Resistance vanA Operons in Paenibacillus Strains Isolated from Soil
Luca Guardabassi, Bruno Perichon, Jean van Heijenoort, Didier Blanot, and Patrice Courvalin
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4227-4233;
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Kinetic Properties of Four Plasmid-Mediated AmpC ß-Lactamases
Cédric Bauvois, Akiko Shimizu Ibuka, Almeida Celso, Jimena Alba, Yoshikazu Ishii, Jean-Marie Frère, and Moreno Galleni
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4240-4246;
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Different Clonal Complexes of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Are Disseminated in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine Region
Ruud H. Deurenberg, Cornelis Vink, Guy J. Oudhuis, Jascha E. Mooij, Christel Driessen, Guy Coppens, Jos Craeghs, Els De Brauwer, Sebastian Lemmen, Hans Wagenvoort, Alexander W. Friedrich, Jacques Scheres, and Ellen E. Stobberingh
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4263-4271;
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Unexpected Enzyme TEM-126: Role of Mutation Asp179Glu
J. Delmas, F. Robin, F. Bittar, C. Chanal, and R. Bonnet
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4280-4287;
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Molecular Evolution Perspectives on Intraspecific Lateral DNA Transfer of Topoisomerase and Gyrase Loci in Streptococcus pneumoniae, with Implications for Fluoroquinolone Resistance Development and Spread
Michael J. Stanhope, Stacey L. Walsh, Julie A. Becker, Michael J. Italia, Karen A. Ingraham, Michael N. Gwynn, Tom Mathie, James A. Poupard, Linda A. Miller, James R. Brown, and Heather Amrine-Madsen
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4315-4326;
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High-Level Chromosomally Mediated Tetracycline Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Results from a Point Mutation in the rpsJ Gene Encoding Ribosomal Protein S10 in Combination with the mtrR and penB Resistance Determinants
Mei Hu, Sobhan Nandi, Christopher Davies, and Robert A. Nicholas
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4327-4334;
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The erm(T) Gene Is Flanked by IS1216V in Inducible Erythromycin-Resistant Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus
Jui-Chang Tsai, Po-Ren Hsueh, Hsiao-Jan Chen, Sung-Pin Tseng, Pei-Yu Chen, and Lee-Jene Teng
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4347-4350;
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parC Mutations in Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Borrelia burgdorferi
Kendal M. Galbraith, Amanda C. Ng, Betsy J. Eggers, Craig R. Kuchel, Christian H. Eggers, and D. Scott Samuels
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4354-4357;
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AbeM, an H⁺-Coupled Acinetobacter baumannii Multidrug Efflux Pump Belonging to the MATE Family of Transporters
Xian-Zhong Su, Jing Chen, Tohru Mizushima, Teruo Kuroda, and Tomofusa Tsuchiya
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4362-4364;
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Interaction of the MexA and MexB Components of the MexAB-OprM Multidrug Efflux System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Identification of MexA Extragenic Suppressors of a T578I Mutation in MexB
Dominic Nehme and Keith Poole
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4375-4378;
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Macrolide Resistance Mediated by a Bifidobacterium breve Membrane Protein
Abelardo Margolles, José Antonio Moreno, Douwe van Sinderen, and Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4379-4381;
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Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Strains Isolated from Community Wastewater from a Semiclosed Agri-Food System in Texas
T. L. Poole, M. E. Hume, L. D. Campbell, H. M. Scott, W. Q. Alali, and R. B. Harvey
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4382-4385;
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Contribution of Mutation at Amino Acid 45 of AcrR to acrB Expression and Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Clinical and Veterinary Escherichia coli Isolates
Mark A. Webber, Ashraf Talukder, and Laura J. V. Piddock
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4390-4392;
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Limited Polymorphism in the Dihydropteroate Synthetase Gene (dhps) of Plasmodium vivax Isolates from Thailand
Mallika Imwong, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Qin Cheng, Catrin Moore, Sornchai Looareesuwan, Georges Snounou, Nicholas J. White, and Nicholas P. J. Day
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4393-4395;
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Genetic and Enzymatic Properties of Metallo-ß-Lactamase VIM-5 from a Clinical Isolate of Enterobacter cloacae
Gulcin G. Gacar, Kenan Midilli, Fetiye Kolayli, Kivanc Ergen, Sibel Gundes, Salih Hosoglu, Aynur Karadenizli, and Haluk Vahaboglu
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4400-4403;
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Lower Nitric Oxide Susceptibility of Trivalent Antimony-Resistant Amastigotes of Leishmania infantum
P. Holzmuller, D. Sereno, and J.-L. Lemesre
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4406-4409;
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Inhibition of Class D ß-Lactamases by Acyl Phosphates and Phosphonates
S. A. Adediran, Michiyoshi Nukaga, Stéphane Baurin, J.-M. Frère, and R. F. Pratt
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4410-4412;
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Pharmacology:

Multicenter Study To Determine Antibody Concentrations and Assess the Safety of Administration of INH-A21, a Donor-Selected Human Staphylococcal Immune Globulin, in Low-Birth-Weight Infants
Edmund V. Capparelli, Barry T. Bloom, Tom J. Kueser, David G. Oelberg, Ellen M. Bifano, Robert D. White, Robert L. Schelonka, Stephen A. Pearlman, Joseph Patti, and Seth V. Hetherington
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4121-4127;
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Increase of Microcirculatory Blood Flow Enhances Penetration of Ciprofloxacin into Soft Tissue
Christian Joukhadar, Pejman Dehghanyar, Friederike Traunmüller, Robert Sauermann, Bernhard Mayer-Helm, Apostolos Georgopoulos, and Markus Müller
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4149-4153;
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Penetration of Piperacillin and Tazobactam into Inflamed Soft Tissue of Patients with Diabetic Foot Infection
F. J. Legat, R. Krause, P. Zenahlik, C. Hoffmann, S. Scholz, W. Salmhofer, J. Tscherpel, T. Tscherpel, H. Kerl, and P. Dittrich
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4368-4371;
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Lack of Pharmacokinetic Drug Interaction between Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate and Nelfinavir Mesylate
Marta Boffito, Anton Pozniak, Brian P. Kearney, Christopher Higgs, Anita Mathias, Lijie Zhong, and Jaymin Shah
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. October 2005 49: 4386-4389;
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Letters:

Class 2 Integron with a Novel Cassette Array in a Burkholderia cenocepacia Isolate
María Soledad Ramírez, Liliana Jordá Vargas, Viviana Cagnoni, Marta Tokumoto, and Daniela Centrón
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Assessment of Effective Renal Plasma Flow, Enzymuria, and Cytokine Release in Healthy Volunteers Receiving a Single Dose of Amphotericin B Desoxycholate
Manjunath P. Pai, Jeffrey P. Norenberg, Robert A. Telepak, David S. Sidney, and Shu Yang
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