AAC -- Table of Contents (June 1 2007, 51 [6])

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Contents: June 2007, Volume 51, Issue 6

       Antiviral Agents

       Mechanisms of Resistance

       Clinical Therapeutics

       Pharmacology

       Mechanisms of Action

       Analytical Procedures

       Experimental Therapeutics

       Susceptibility

       Letters

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Antiviral Agents:

Evolution of Resistant M414T Mutants among Hepatitis C Virus Replicon Cells Treated with Polymerase Inhibitor A-782759
Liangjun Lu, Hongmei Mo, Tami J. Pilot-Matias, and Akhteruzzaman Molla
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1889-1896; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01004-06
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Activity of T-1106 in a Hamster Model of Yellow Fever Virus Infection
Justin G. Julander, Yousuke Furuta, Kristiina Shafer, and Robert W. Sidwell
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1962-1966; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01494-06
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Effect of Topical Microbicides on Infectious Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Binding to Epithelial Cells
Susan Roth, Michael Monsour, Amanda Dowland, Patricia C. Guenthner, Kelly Hancock, Chin-Yi Ou, and Charlene S. Dezzutti
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1972-1978; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01358-06
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Comprehensive Analysis of the Effects of Ordinary Nutrients on Hepatitis C Virus RNA Replication in Cell Culture
Masahiko Yano, Masanori Ikeda, Ken-ichi Abe, Hiromichi Dansako, Shogo Ohkoshi, Yutaka Aoyagi, and Nobuyuki Kato
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2016-2027; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01426-06
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Sensitivity of Monkey B Virus (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1) to Antiviral Drugs: Role of Thymidine Kinase in Antiviral Activities of Substrate Analogs and Acyclonucleosides
Federico Focher, Andrea Lossani, Annalisa Verri, Silvio Spadari, Andrew Maioli, Joseph J. Gambino, George E. Wright, Richard Eberle, Darla H. Black, Peter Medveczky, Maria Medveczky, and David Shugar
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2028-2034; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01284-06
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Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Data Support Once-Daily Low-Dose Boosted Saquinavir (1,200 Milligrams Saquinavir with 100 Milligrams Ritonavir) in Treatment-Naive or Limited Protease Inhibitor-Experienced Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients
Ana Marin-Niebla, Luis Fernando Lopez-Cortes, Rosa Ruiz-Valderas, Pompeyo Viciana, Rosario Mata, Alicia Gutierrez, Rosario Pascual, and Magdalena Rodriguez
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2035-2042; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01136-06
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Biochemical Studies on the Mechanism of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Reverse Transcriptase Resistance to 1-(ß-D-Dioxolane)Thymine Triphosphate
Johan Lennerstrand, Chung K. Chu, and Raymond F. Schinazi
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2078-2084; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00119-07
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Antiviral and Cellular Metabolism Interactions between Dexelvucitabine and Lamivudine
Brenda I. Hernandez-Santiago, Judy S. Mathew, Kim L. Rapp, Jason P. Grier, and Raymond F. Schinazi
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2130-2135; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01543-06
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A Novel Bis-Tetrahydrofuranylurethane-Containing Nonpeptidic Protease Inhibitor (PI), GRL-98065, Is Potent against Multiple-PI-Resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus In Vitro
Masayuki Amano, Yasuhiro Koh, Debananda Das, Jianfeng Li, Sofiya Leschenko, Yuan-Fang Wang, Peter I. Boross, Irene T. Weber, Arun K. Ghosh, and Hiroaki Mitsuya
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2143-2155; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01413-06
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Clinical Response and Tolerability to and Safety of Saquinavir with Low-Dose Ritonavir in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Infected Mothers and Their Infants
Carmen D. Zorrilla, Russell Van Dyke, Arlene Bardeguez, Edward P. Acosta, Betsy Smith, Michael D. Hughes, Sharon Huang, D. Heather Watts, Barbara Heckman, Eleanor Jiménez, George McSherry, Lynne Mofenson and the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group 386 Protocol Team
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2208-2210; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00871-06
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Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Activity of Small Interfering RNA Targeting the Conserved RNA Termini of Lassa Virus
Stefanie Müller and Stephan Günther
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2215-2218; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01368-06
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In Vitro Activity of 2,4-Diamino-6-[2-(Phosphonomethoxy)Ethoxy]-Pyrimidine against Multidrug-Resistant Hepatitis B Virus Mutants
M. N. Brunelle, J. Lucifora, J. Neyts, S. Villet, A. Holy, C. Trepo, and F. Zoulim
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2240-2243; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01440-06
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Inhibitory Activities of Three Classes of Acyclic Nucleoside Phosphonates against Murine Polyomavirus and Primate Simian Virus 40 Strains
Ilya Lebeau, Graciela Andrei, Marcela Krecmerová, Erik De Clercq, Antonin Holy, and Robert Snoeck
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2268-2273; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01422-06
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Prophylactic Effect of Dietary Seaweed Fucoidan against Enteral Prion Infection
Katsumi Doh-ura, Tomoko Kuge, Miyuki Uomoto, Keiko Nishizawa, Yuri Kawasaki, and Masahiko Iha
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2274-2277; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00917-06
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Mechanisms of Resistance:

A New Aspergillus fumigatus Resistance Mechanism Conferring In Vitro Cross-Resistance to Azole Antifungals Involves a Combination of cyp51A Alterations
E. Mellado, G. Garcia-Effron, L. Alcázar-Fuoli, W. J. G. Melchers, P. E. Verweij, M. Cuenca-Estrella, and J. L. Rodríguez-Tudela
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1897-1904; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01092-06
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Dissemination of Acinetobacter baumannii Clones with OXA-23 Carbapenemase in Colombian Hospitals
Maria Virginia Villegas, Juan Nicolas Kattan, Adriana Correa, Karen Lolans, Ana Maria Guzman, Neil Woodford, David Livermore, John P. Quinn and the Colombian Nosocomial Bacterial Resistance Study Group
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2001-2004; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00226-07
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Stepwise Exposure of Staphylococcus aureus to Pleuromutilins Is Associated with Stepwise Acquisition of Mutations in rplC and Minimally Affects Susceptibility to Retapamulin
Daniel R. Gentry, Stephen F. Rittenhouse, Lynn McCloskey, and David J. Holmes
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2048-2052; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01066-06
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Tigecycline Efflux as a Mechanism for Nonsusceptibility in Acinetobacter baumannii
Anton Y. Peleg, Jennifer Adams, and David L. Paterson
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2065-2069; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01198-06
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Common Origin and Fixation of Plasmodium falciparum dhfr and dhps Mutations Associated with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Resistance in a Low-Transmission Area in South America
Andrea M. McCollum, Kristen Mueller, Leopoldo Villegas, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, and Ananias A. Escalante
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2085-2091; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01228-06
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PhoU Is a Persistence Switch Involved in Persister Formation and Tolerance to Multiple Antibiotics and Stresses in Escherichia coli
Yongfang Li and Ying Zhang
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2092-2099; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00052-07
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Isoniazid Induces Its Own Resistance in Nonreplicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Salman Siddiqi, Param Takhar, Christian Baldeviano, William Glover, and Ying Zhang
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2100-2104; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00086-07
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates with Reduced Susceptibility to Cefixime and Ceftriaxone: Association with Genetic Polymorphisms in penA, mtrR, porB1b, and ponA
Robert Lindberg, Hans Fredlund, Robert Nicholas, and Magnus Unemo
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2117-2122; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01604-06
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Competitive Inhibitors of the CphA Metallo-ß-Lactamase from Aeromonas hydrophila
L. E. Horsfall, G. Garau, B. M. R. Liénard, O. Dideberg, C. J. Schofield, J. M. Frère, and M. Galleni
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2136-2142; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00866-06
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Identification of the Novel Narrow-Spectrum ß-Lactamase SCO-1 in Acinetobacter spp. from Argentina
Laurent Poirel, Stéphane Corvec, Melina Rapoport, Pauline Mugnier, Alejandro Petroni, Fernando Pasteran, Diego Faccone, Marcelo Galas, Henri Drugeon, Vincent Cattoir, and Patrice Nordmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2179-2184; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01600-06
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SCO-1, a Novel Plasmid-Mediated Class A ß-Lactamase with Carbenicillinase Characteristics from Escherichia coli
C. C. Papagiannitsis, A. Loli, L. S. Tzouvelekis, E. Tzelepi, G. Arlet, and V. Miriagou
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2185-2188; published ahead of print March 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01439-06
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Staphylococcus aureus Strains That are Hypersusceptible to Resistance Gene Transfer from Enterococci
Julia M.-L. Sung and Jodi A. Lindsay
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2189-2191; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01442-06
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Longitudinally Tracking Fluoroquinolone Resistance and Its Determinants in Penicillin-Susceptible and -Nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Hong Kong, 2000 to 2005
Margaret Ip, Shirley S. L. Chau, Fang Chi, Edmund S. C. Cheuk, Helen Ma, Raymond W. M. Lai, and Paul K. Chan
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2192-2194; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00139-07
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Determination of the Genetic Support for tet(W) in Oral Bacteria
A. Villedieu, A. P. Roberts, E. Allan, H. Hussain, R. McNab, D. A. Spratt, M. Wilson, and P. Mullany
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2195-2197; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01587-06
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Preservation of Integron Types among Enterobacteriaceae Producing Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamases in a Spanish Hospital over a 15-Year Period (1988 to 2003)
Elisabete Machado, Joana Ferreira, Ângela Novais, Luísa Peixe, Rafael Cantón, Fernando Baquero, and Teresa M. Coque
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2201-2204; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01389-06
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Spread in an Italian Hospital of a Clonal Acinetobacter baumannii Strain Producing the TEM-92 Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase
Andrea Endimiani, Francesco Luzzaro, Roberta Migliavacca, Elisabetta Mantengoli, Andrea M. Hujer, Kristine M. Hujer, Laura Pagani, Robert A. Bonomo, Gian Maria Rossolini, and Antonio Toniolo
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2211-2214; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01139-06
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Daptomycin Nonsusceptibility in Staphylococcus aureus with Reduced Vancomycin Susceptibility Is Independent of Alterations in MprF
Satish K. Pillai, Howard S. Gold, George Sakoulas, Christine Wennersten, Robert C. Moellering, Jr., and George M. Eliopoulos
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2223-2225; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00202-07
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Mutant Prevention Concentrations of Fluoroquinolones for Enterobacteriaceae Expressing the Plasmid-Carried Quinolone Resistance Determinant qnrA1
J. M. Rodríguez-Martínez, C. Velasco, I. García, M. E. Cano, L. Martínez-Martínez, and A. Pascual
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2236-2239; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01444-06
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Mutations in 16S rRNA and Ribosomal Protein S5 Associated with High-Level Spectinomycin Resistance in Pasteurella multocida
Corinna Kehrenberg and Stefan Schwarz
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2244-2246; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00229-07
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Transient Loss of High-Level Mupirocin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Due to MupA Polymorphism
Daniel G. Driscoll, Casey L. Young, and Urs A. Ochsner
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2247-2248; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00241-07
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ß-Lactam Resistance in Haemophilus parasuis Is Mediated by Plasmid pB1000 Bearing bla_ROB-1
Alvaro San Millan, Jose Antonio Escudero, Ana Catalan, Silvia Nieto, Fidel Farelo, Magdalena Gibert, Miguel Angel Moreno, Lucas Dominguez, and Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2260-2264; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00242-07
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Clinical Therapeutics:

Colistin Is Effective in Treatment of Infections Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cancer Patients
Ray Y. Hachem, Roy F. Chemaly, Corine A. Ahmar, Ying Jiang, Maha R. Boktour, Georges Abou Rjaili, Gerald P. Bodey, and Issam I. Raad
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1905-1911; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01015-06
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Exposure-Response Analyses of Tigecycline Efficacy in Patients with Complicated Skin and Skin-Structure Infections
A. K. Meagher, J. A. Passarell, B. B. Cirincione, S. A. Van Wart, K. Liolios, T. Babinchak, E. J. Ellis-Grosse, and P. G. Ambrose
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1939-1945; published ahead of print March 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01084-06
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Effects of Carbapenem Exposure on the Risk for Digestive Tract Carriage of Intensive Care Unit-Endemic Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains in Critically Ill Patients
C. Peña, A. Guzmán, C. Suarez, M. A. Dominguez, F. Tubau, M. Pujol, F. Gudiol, and J. Ariza
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1967-1971; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01483-06
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Predictors of Mortality in Patients with Bloodstream Infections Caused by Extended-Spectrum-ß-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae: Importance of Inadequate Initial Antimicrobial Treatment
Mario Tumbarello, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Eva Montuori, Enrico M. Trecarichi, Brunella Posteraro, Barbara Fiori, Rita Citton, Tiziana D'Inzeo, Giovanni Fadda, Roberto Cauda, and Teresa Spanu
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1987-1994; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01509-06
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Controlled Trial of a 5-Day Course of Telithromycin versus Doxycycline for Treatment of Mild to Moderate Scrub Typhus
Dong-Min Kim, Ki Dong Yu, Ji Hyun Lee, Hyun Kuk Kim, and Seung-Hyun Lee
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2011-2015; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01460-06
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Pharmacology:

Lack of Effect of DX-619, a Novel Des-Fluoro(6)-Quinolone, on Glomerular Filtration Rate Measured by Serum Clearance of Cold Iohexol
Nenad Sarapa, Prachi Wickremasingha, NanXiang Ge, Richard Weitzman, Merynda Fuellhart, Cindy Yen, and Julia Lloyd-Parks
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1912-1917; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01223-06
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Pharmacokinetics of Penicillin G in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Neonates
Tuuli Metsvaht, Kersti Oselin, Mari-Liis Ilmoja, Kaili Anier, and Irja Lutsar
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1995-2000; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01506-06
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Mechanisms of Action:

External Guide Sequences Targeting the aac(6')-Ib mRNA Induce Inhibition of Amikacin Resistance
Alfonso J. C. Soler Bistué, Hongphuc Ha, Renee Sarno, Michelle Don, Angeles Zorreguieta, and Marcelo E. Tolmasky
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1918-1925; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01500-06
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A Novel Giardia lamblia Nitroreductase, GlNR1, Interacts with Nitazoxanide and Other Thiazolides
Joachim Müller, Jonathan Wastling, Sanya Sanderson, Norbert Müller, and Andrew Hemphill
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1979-1986; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01548-06
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Polyamine Effects on Antibiotic Susceptibility in Bacteria
Dong-Hyeon Kwon and Chung-Dar Lu
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2070-2077; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01472-06
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Evidence and Possible Consequences of the Phosphorylation of Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in Human Red Blood Cells
Lucie Durand-Gasselin, David Da Silva, Henri Benech, Alain Pruvost, and Jacques Grassi
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2105-2111; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00831-06
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Kinetic Characterization of Squalene Synthase from Trypanosoma cruzi: Selective Inhibition by Quinuclidine Derivatives
Marco Sealey-Cardona, Simon Cammerer, Simon Jones, Luis M. Ruiz-Pérez, Reto Brun, Ian H. Gilbert, Julio A. Urbina, and Dolores González-Pacanowska
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2123-2129; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01454-06
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Analytical Procedures:

Assessment and Continued Validation of the Malaria SYBR Green I-Based Fluorescence Assay for Use in Malaria Drug Screening
Jacob D. Johnson, Richard A. Dennull, Lucia Gerena, Miriam Lopez-Sanchez, Norma E. Roncal, and Norman C. Waters
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1926-1933; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01607-06
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Concentration-Dependent Synergy and Antagonism within a Triple Antifungal Drug Combination against Aspergillus Species: Analysis by a New Response Surface Model
Joseph Meletiadis, Theodouli Stergiopoulou, Elizabeth M. O'Shaughnessy, Joanne Peter, and Thomas J. Walsh
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2053-2064; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00873-06
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Improved Assessment of Plasmodium vivax Response to Antimalarial Drugs by a Colorimetric Double-Site Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase Antigen Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Pierre Druilhe, Philippe Brasseur, Catherine Blanc, and Michael Makler
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2112-2116; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01385-06
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Experimental Therapeutics:

Phage Therapy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in a Mouse Burn Wound Model
Catherine S. McVay, Marisela Velásquez, and Joe A. Fralick
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1934-1938; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01028-06
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Prevention of Brain Injury by the Nonbacteriolytic Antibiotic Daptomycin in Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis
Denis Grandgirard, Christian Schürch, Philippe Cottagnoud, and Stephen L. Leib
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2173-2178; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01014-06
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Lysostaphin in Treatment of Neonatal Staphylococcus aureus Infection
Okunola Oluola, Lingkun Kong, Mindy Fein, and Leonard E. Weisman
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2198-2200; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00506-06
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Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Infection by the Quorum-Sensing Inhibitor RIP
Naomi Balaban, Oscar Cirioni, Andrea Giacometti, Roberto Ghiselli, Joel B. Braunstein, Carmela Silvestri, Federico Mocchegiani, Vittorio Saba, and Giorgio Scalise
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2226-2229; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01097-06
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Daptomycin Produces an Enhanced Bactericidal Activity Compared to Ceftriaxone, Measured by [³H]Choline Release in the Cerebrospinal Fluid, in Experimental Meningitis Due to a Penicillin-Resistant Pneumococcal Strain without Lysing Its Cell Wall
A. Stucki, M. Cottagnoud, V. Winkelmann, T. Schaffner, and P. Cottagnoud
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2249-2252; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01000-06
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Susceptibility:

Spread of Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase CTX-M-Producing Escherichia coli Clinical Isolates in Community and Nosocomial Environments in Portugal
Nuno Mendonça, Joana Leitão, Vera Manageiro, Eugénia Ferreira, the Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Program in Portugal, and Manuela Caniça
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1946-1955; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01412-06
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Antipropionibacterial Activity of BAL19403, a Novel Macrolide Antibiotic
Stefanie Heller, Laurenz Kellenberger, and Stuart Shapiro
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 1956-1961; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00062-07
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Efficacy of Tachyplesin III, Colistin, and Imipenem against a Multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain
Oscar Cirioni, Roberto Ghiselli, Carmela Silvestri, Wojciech Kamysz, Fiorenza Orlando, Federico Mocchegiani, Fabio Di Matteo, Alessandra Riva, Jerzy Lukasiak, Giorgio Scalise, Vittorio Saba, and Andrea Giacometti
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2005-2010; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01576-06
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Time-Kill and Synergism Studies of Ceftobiprole against Enterococcus faecalis, Including ß-Lactamase-Producing and Vancomycin-Resistant Isolates
Cesar A. Arias, Kavindra V. Singh, Diana Panesso, and Barbara E. Murray
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2043-2047; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00131-07
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Targeted Drug-Carrying Bacteriophages as Antibacterial Nanomedicines
Iftach Yacoby, Hagit Bar, and Itai Benhar
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2156-2163; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00163-07
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Bis-Acridines as Lead Antiparasitic Agents: Structure-Activity Analysis of a Discrete Compound Library In Vitro
Conor R. Caffrey, Dietmar Steverding, Ryan K. Swenerton, Ben Kelly, Deirdre Walshe, Anjan Debnath, Yuan-Min Zhou, Patricia S. Doyle, Aaron T. Fafarman, Julie A. Zorn, Kirkwood M. Land, Jessica Beauchene, Kimberly Schreiber, Heidrun Moll, Alicia Ponte-Sucre, Tanja Schirmeister, Ahilan Saravanamuthu, Alan H. Fairlamb, Fred E. Cohen, James H. McKerrow, Jennifer L. Weisman, and Barnaby C. H. May
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2164-2172; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01418-06
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Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Peptostreptococcus anaerobius and the Newly Described Peptostreptococcus stomatis Isolated from Various Human Sources
Eija Könönen, Anne Bryk, Päivi Niemi, and Arja Kanervo-Nordström
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2205-2207; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00056-07
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In Vitro Activities of Miltefosine and Two Novel Antifungal Biscationic Salts against a Panel of 77 Dermatophytes
Zhongsheng Tong, Fred Widmer, Tania C. Sorrell, Zofia Guse, Katrina A. Jolliffe, Catriona Halliday, Ok Cha Lee, Fanrong Kong, Lesley C. Wright, and Sharon C. A. Chen
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2219-2222; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01382-06
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Activity of Faropenem against Middle Ear Fluid Pathogens from Children with Acute Otitis Media in Costa Rica and Israel
Kimberley Clawson Stone, Ron Dagan, Adriano Arguedas, Eugene Leibovitz, Elaine Wang, Roger M. Echols, Nebojsa Janjic, and Ian A. Critchley
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2230-2235; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00049-07
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Serum Differentially Alters the Antifungal Properties of Echinocandin Drugs
Padmaja Paderu, Guillermo Garcia-Effron, Sergey Balashov, Guillaume Delmas, Steven Park, and David S. Perlin
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2253-2256; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01536-06
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Paradoxical Effect of Echinocandins across Candida Species In Vitro: Evidence for Echinocandin-Specific and Candida Species-Related Differences
Georgios Chamilos, Russell E. Lewis, Nathaniel Albert, and Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2257-2259; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00095-07
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Effects of Piperaquine, Chloroquine, and Amodiaquine on Drug Uptake and of These in Combination with Dihydroartemisinin against Drug-Sensitive and -Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Strains
Quinton L. Fivelman, Ipemida S. Adagu, and David C. Warhurst
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2265-2267; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01479-06
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Activity of Garenoxacin against Macrolide-Susceptible and -Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Tsuguo Sasaki, and Masahiro Takahata
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2278-2279; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01561-06
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First Case of Emergence of Atovaquone Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum during Second-Line Atovaquone-Proguanil Treatment in South America
Eric Legrand, Magalie Demar, Béatrice Volney, Marie-Thérèse Ekala, Marc Quinternet, Christiane Bouchier, Thierry Fandeur, Christophe Rogier, Bernard Carme, Odile Mercereau Puijalon, and Philippe Esterre
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2280-2281; published ahead of print April 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.01532-06
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SME-2-Producing Serratia marcescens Isolate from Switzerland
Laurent Poirel, Aline Wenger, Jacques Bille, Sandrine Bernabeu, Thierry Naas, and Patrice Nordmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. June 2007 51: 2282-2283; published ahead of print April 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AAC.00309-07
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