AAC -- Table of Contents (May 1 2008, 52 [5])

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Contents: May 2008, Volume 52, Issue 5

       Experimental Therapeutics

       Susceptibility

       Antiviral Agents

       Mechanisms of Resistance

       Pharmacology

       Clinical Therapeutics

       Chemistry; Biosynthesis

       Mechanisms of Action

       Letters

       Errata

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Experimental Therapeutics:

Pharmacokinetic Determinants of the Window of Selection for Antimalarial Drug Resistance
K. Stepniewska and N. J. White
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1589-1596; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00903-07
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Efficacies of Ceftobiprole Medocaril and Comparators in a Rabbit Model of Osteomyelitis Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Li-Yan Yin, Jason H. Calhoun, Jacob K. Thomas, Stuart Shapiro, and Anne Schmitt-Hoffmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1618-1622; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00638-07
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Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi following Antibiotic Treatment in Mice
Emir Hodzic, Sunlian Feng, Kevin Holden, Kimberly J. Freet, and Stephen W. Barthold
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1728-1736; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01050-07
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Buthionine Sulfoximine Has Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Activity in a Murine Model of Acute Chagas' Disease and Enhances the Efficacy of Nifurtimox
Mario Faúndez, Rodrigo López-Muñoz, Gloria Torres, Antonio Morello, Jorge Ferreira, Ulrike Kemmerling, Myriam Orellana, and Juan D. Maya
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1837-1839; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01454-07
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Efficacy of Benzoxazinorifamycins in a Mouse Model of Chlamydia pneumoniae Lung Infection
Lee Ann Campbell, Cho-Chou Kuo, Robert J. Suchland, and David M. Rothstein
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1855-1858; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01567-07
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Efficacy of SPK-843, a Novel Polyene Antifungal, in Comparison with Amphotericin B, Liposomal Amphotericin B, and Micafungin against Murine Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Hiroshi Kakeya, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Hisato Senda, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Masafumi Seki, Koichi Izumikawa, Kazunori Yanagihara, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Takayoshi Tashiro, and Shigeru Kohno
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1868-1870; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01369-07
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Efficacy of SPK-843, a Novel Polyene Antifungal, in a Murine Model of Systemic Cryptococcosis
Hiroshi Kakeya, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Hisato Senda, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Masafumi Seki, Koichi Izumikawa, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Kazunori Yanagihara, Takayoshi Tashiro, and Shigeru Kohno
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1871-1872; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01370-07
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Susceptibility:

Effect of Polysorbate 80 on Oritavancin Binding to Plastic Surfaces: Implications for Susceptibility Testing
Francis F. Arhin, Ingrid Sarmiento, Adam Belley, Geoffrey A. McKay, Deborah C. Draghi, Parveen Grover, Daniel F. Sahm, Thomas R. Parr, Jr., and Gregory Moeck
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1597-1603; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01513-07
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Synergy between Polyethylenimine and Different Families of Antibiotics against a Resistant Clinical Isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Hayssam Khalil, Tao Chen, Renée Riffon, Rutao Wang, and Zhao Wang
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1635-1641; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01071-07
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In Vitro Activities of the Rx-01 Oxazolidinones against Hospital and Community Pathogens
Laura Lawrence, Paul Danese, Joe DeVito, Francois Franceschi, and Joyce Sutcliffe
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1653-1662; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01383-07
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Comparison of the In Vitro Efficacies of Moxifloxacin and Amoxicillin against Listeria monocytogenes
S. Grayo, O. Join-Lambert, M. C. Desroches, and A. Le Monnier
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1697-1702; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01211-07
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Activities of Daptomycin and Comparative Antimicrobials, Singly and in Combination, against Extracellular and Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus and Its Stable Small-Colony Variant in Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages and in Broth
Aldona L. Baltch, William J. Ritz, Lawrence H. Bopp, Phyllis Michelsen, and Raymond P. Smith
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1829-1833; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01480-07
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A Peptide with a ProGln C Terminus in the Human Saliva Peptidome Exerts Bactericidal Activity against Propionibacterium acnes
Chun-Ming Huang, Justin W. Torpey, Yu-Tseung Liu, Yun-Ru Chen, Katherine E. Williams, Elizabeth A. Komives, and Richard L. Gallo
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1834-1836; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01347-07
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Comparison of Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles among Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing and Acquired AmpC β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates from Canadian Intensive Care Units
Patricia J. Baudry, Kim Nichol, Melanie DeCorby, Laura Mataseje, Michael R. Mulvey, Daryl J. Hoban, and George G. Zhanel
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1846-1849; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01176-07
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Activity of Daptomycin against Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Cerebrospinal Fluid
Lodewijk Spanjaard and Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1850-1851; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01139-07
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Susceptibility Testing of Anidulafungin and Voriconazole Alone and in Combination against Conidia and Hyphae of Aspergillus spp. under Hypoxic Conditions
Susanne Perkhofer, Daniel Jost, Manfred P. Dierich, and Cornelia Lass-Flörl
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1873-1875; published ahead of print March 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01572-07
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Mouse Beta-Defensin-14, an Antimicrobial Ortholog of Human Beta-Defensin-3
Kerstin Hinrichsen, Rainer Podschun, Sabine Schubert, Jens M. Schröder, Jürgen Harder, and Ehrhardt Proksch
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1876-1879; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01308-07
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Antiviral Agents:

The Hepatitis C Virus Replicon Presents a Higher Barrier to Resistance to Nucleoside Analogs than to Nonnucleoside Polymerase or Protease Inhibitors
Matthew F. McCown, Sonal Rajyaguru, Sophie Le Pogam, Samir Ali, Wen-Rong Jiang, Hyunsoon Kang, Julian Symons, Nick Cammack, and Isabel Najera
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1604-1612; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01317-07
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Predictive Values of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Phenotype and Genotype and of Amprenavir and Lopinavir Inhibitory Quotients in Heavily Pretreated Patients on a Ritonavir-Boosted Dual-Protease-Inhibitor Regimen
Aurélie Barrail-Tran, Laurence Morand-Joubert, Gwendoline Poizat, Gilles Raguin, Clotilde Le Tiec, François Clavel, Elisabeth Dam, Geneviève Chêne, Pierre-Marie Girard, Anne-Marie Taburet and the Puzzle-1 (ANRS 104) Study Group
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1642-1646; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01314-07
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Rapid Clinical Induction of Hepatic Cytochrome P4502B6 Activity by Ritonavir
Evan D. Kharasch, Darain Mitchell, Rebecka Coles, and Roberto Blanco
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1663-1669; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01600-07
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Mitochondrial DNA Content, an Inaccurate Biomarker of Mitochondrial Alteration in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Lipodystrophy
Min Ji Kim, Claude Jardel, Cyrille Barthélémy, Véronique Jan, Jean Philippe Bastard, Sandrine Fillaut-Chapin, Sydney Houry, Jacqueline Capeau, and Anne Lombès
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1670-1676; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01449-07
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Single-Dose Safety and Pharmacokinetics of ST-246, a Novel Orthopoxvirus Egress Inhibitor
Robert Jordan, Deborah Tien, Tove' C. Bolken, Kevin F. Jones, Shanthakumar R. Tyavanagimatt, Josef Strasser, Annie Frimm, Michael L. Corrado, Phoebe G. Strome, and Dennis E. Hruby
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1721-1727; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01303-07
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Inhibitory Effect of PRO 2000, a Candidate Microbicide, on Dendritic Cell-Mediated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transfer
Natalia Teleshova, Theresa Chang, Albert Profy, and Mary E. Klotman
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1751-1758; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00707-07
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Entecavir Exhibits Inhibitory Activity against Human Immunodeficiency Virus under Conditions of Reduced Viral Challenge
Pin-Fang Lin, Beata Nowicka-Sans, Brian Terry, Sharon Zhang, Chunfu Wang, Li Fan, Ira Dicker, Volodymyr Gali, Helen Higley, Neil Parkin, Daniel Tenney, Mark Krystal, and Richard Colonno
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1759-1767; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01313-07
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Development of a Comprehensive Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Screening Algorithm for Discovery and Preclinical Testing of Topical Microbicides
Carol Lackman-Smith, Clay Osterling, Katherine Luckenbaugh, Marie Mankowski, Beth Snyder, Gareth Lewis, Jeremy Paull, Albert Profy, Roger G. Ptak, Robert W. Buckheit, Jr., Karen M. Watson, James E. Cummins, Jr., and Brigitte E. Sanders-Beer
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1768-1781; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01328-07
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Effect of Ketoconazole on the Pharmacokinetics of Maribavir in Healthy Adults
D. Ronald Goldwater, Carolyn Dougherty, Mary Schumacher, and Stephen A. Villano
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1794-1798; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00951-07
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Iminosugars in Combination with Interferon and Ribavirin Permanently Eradicate Noncytopathic Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus from Persistently Infected Cells
Stephen D. Woodhouse, Caroline Smith, Maud Michelet, Norica Branza-Nichita, Mark Hussey, Raymond A. Dwek, and Nicole Zitzmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1820-1828; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01181-07
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Synergy of a Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) NS4A Antagonist in Combination with HCV Protease and Polymerase Inhibitors
David L. Wyles, Kelly A. Kaihara, and Robert T. Schooley
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1862-1864; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01208-07
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Mechanisms of Resistance:

Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Tunisia Producing the OXA-58-Like Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Oxacillinase OXA-97
Laurent Poirel, Wejdene Mansour, Olfa Bouallegue, and Patrice Nordmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1613-1617; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00978-07
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A Chemical Genomic Screen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Reveals a Role for Diphthamidation of Translation Elongation Factor 2 in Inhibition of Protein Synthesis by Sordarin
Javier Botet, María Rodríguez-Mateos, Juan P. G. Ballesta, José Luis Revuelta, and Miguel Remacha
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1623-1629; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01603-07
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The Efflux Pump Inhibitor Reserpine Selects Multidrug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains That Overexpress the ABC Transporters PatA and PatB
Mark I. Garvey and Laura J. V. Piddock
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1677-1685; published ahead of print March 24, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01644-07
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Transcriptional and Translational Control of the mlr Operon, Which Confers Resistance to Seven Classes of Protein Synthesis Inhibitors
Lisa K. Smith and Alexander S. Mankin
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1703-1712; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01583-07
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Linezolid and Tiamulin Cross-Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Mediated by Point Mutations in the Peptidyl Transferase Center
Keith Miller, Colin J. Dunsmore, Colin W. G. Fishwick, and Ian Chopra
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1737-1742; published ahead of print January 7, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01015-07
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Translational Attenuation and mRNA Stabilization as Mechanisms of erm(B) Induction by Erythromycin
Yu-Hong Min, Ae-Ran Kwon, Eun-Jeong Yoon, Mi-Ja Shim, and Eung-Chil Choi
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1782-1789; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01376-07
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Multiclonal Outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae Producing Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase CTX-M-2 and Novel Variant CTX-M-59 in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Brazil
Doroti de Oliveira Garcia, Yohei Doi, Dora Szabo, Jennifer M. Adams-Haduch, Tânia M. I. Vaz, Daniela Leite, Maria Clara Padoveze, Maristela P. Freire, Fernanda P. Silveira, and David L. Paterson
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1790-1793; published ahead of print March 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01440-07
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The Lys234Arg Substitution in the Enzyme SHV-72 Is a Determinant for Resistance to Clavulanic Acid Inhibition
Nuno Mendonça, Vera Manageiro, Frédéric Robin, M. José Salgado, Eugénia Ferreira, Manuela Caniça, and Richard Bonnet
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1806-1811; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01381-07
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Detection of Methyltransferases Conferring High-Level Resistance to Aminoglycosides in Enterobacteriaceae from Europe, North America, and Latin America
Thomas R. Fritsche, Mariana Castanheira, George H. Miller, Ronald N. Jones, and Eliana S. Armstrong
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1843-1845; published ahead of print March 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01477-07
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Pyrazinamide Resistance and pncA Gene Mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Pontus Juréen, Jim Werngren, Juan-Carlos Toro, and Sven Hoffner
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1852-1854; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00110-08
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Secretion of E,E-Farnesol and Biofilm Formation in Eight Different Candida Species
K. Weber, R. Sohr, B. Schulz, M. Fleischhacker, and M. Ruhnke
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1859-1861; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01646-07
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Detection of New arr-4 and arr-5 Gene Cassettes in Clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains from Brazil
Érica Lourenço da Fonseca, Fernanda dos Santos Freitas, José Carlos de Amorim, and Ana Carolina Paulo Vicente
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1865-1867; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00017-08
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Comparison of the Efficacies of Oral β-Lactams in Selection of Haemophilus influenzae Transformants with Mutated ftsI Genes
Sho Takahata, Yoshihisa Kato, Yumiko Sanbongi, Kazunori Maebashi, and Takashi Ida
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1880-1883; published ahead of print March 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00936-07
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Absence of Amphotericin B-Tolerant Persister Cells in Biofilms of Some Candida Species
Rawya S. Al-Dhaheri and L. Julia Douglas
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1884-1887; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01473-07
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Emergence of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Group B Streptococcal Isolates in Taiwan
Hsiu-Mei Wu, Rajendra Prasad Janapatla, Yueh-Ren Ho, Kuei-Hsiang Hung, Chi-Wen Wu, Jing-Jou Yan, and Jiunn-Jong Wu
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1888-1890; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00035-08
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Pharmacology:

Effect of Low-Dose Ritonavir on the Pharmacokinetics of the CXCR4 Antagonist AMD070 in Healthy Volunteers
Ying Jun Cao, Charles W. Flexner, Shelia Dunaway, Jeong-Gun Park, Karin Klingman, Ilene Wiggins, Jeanne Conley, Christine Radebaugh, Angela D. Kashuba, Ron MacFarland, Stephen Becker, and Craig W. Hendrix
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1630-1634; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01460-07
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Clinical Therapeutics:

Antibacterial Efficacy of R-Type Pyocins towards Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Murine Peritonitis Model
Dean Scholl and David W. Martin, Jr.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1647-1652; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01479-07
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Treatment of Scedosporiosis with Voriconazole: Clinical Experience with 107 Patients
Peter Troke, Koldo Aguirrebengoa, Carmen Arteaga, David Ellis, Christopher H. Heath, Irja Lutsar, Montserrat Rovira, Quoc Nguyen, Monica Slavin, Sharon C. A. Chen on behalf of the Global Scedosporium Study Group
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1743-1750; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01388-07
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Effects of Plasmodium falciparum Parasite Population Size and Patient Age on Early and Late Parasitological Outcomes of Antimalarial Treatment in Children
Steffen Borrmann, Pierre-Blaise Matsiegui, Michel Anoumou Missinou, and Peter G. Kremsner
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1799-1805; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00755-07
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Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of Single-Dose Intravenous Daptomycin in Patients with Thermal Burn Injury
John F. Mohr, III, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, David J. Wainright, Donald H. Parks, Timothy C. Hollenbeck, and Charles D. Ericsson
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1891-1893; published ahead of print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01321-07
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Chemistry; Biosynthesis:

Three Thioesterases Are Involved in the Biosynthesis of Phosphinothricin Tripeptide in Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494
S. Eys, D. Schwartz, W. Wohlleben, and E. Schinko
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1686-1696; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01053-07
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Mechanisms of Action:

The Antimicrobial Peptide NK-2, the Core Region of Mammalian NK-Lysin, Kills Intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum
Christoph Gelhaus, Thomas Jacobs, Jörg Andrä, and Matthias Leippe
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1713-1720; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01342-07
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Enhanced Resistance to Bacterial Infection in Protegrin-1 Transgenic Mice
Queenie C. K. Cheung, Patricia V. Turner, Cheng Song, De Wu, Hugh Y. Cai, Janet I. MacInnes, and Julang Li
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1812-1819; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01530-07
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Differential Effects of Quinoline Antimalarials on Endocytosis in Plasmodium falciparum
Lindi Roberts, Timothy J. Egan, Keith A. Joiner, and Heinrich C. Hoppe
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1840-1842; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01478-07
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Letters:

Outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii with Chromosomally Encoded VIM-1 Undetectable by Imipenem-EDTA Synergy Tests
Alexandra Loli, Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis, Dimitra Gianneli, Eva Tzelepi, and Vivi Miriagou
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1894-1896; published ahead of print February 19, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01414-07
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Biochemical Characterization of SHV-55, an Extended-Spectrum Class A β-Lactamase from Klebsiella pneumoniae
Nuno Mendonça, Vera Manageiro, Richard Bonnet, and Manuela Caniça
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1897-1898; published ahead of print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01525-07
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Errata:

The Naphthyridinone GSK364735 Is a Novel, Potent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Integrase Inhibitor and Antiretroviral
Edward P. Garvey, Brian A. Johns, Margaret J. Gartland, Scott A. Foster, Wayne H. Miller, Robert G. Ferris, Richard J. Hazen, Mark R. Underwood, Eric E. Boros, James B. Thompson, Jason G. Weatherhead, Cecilia S. Koble, Scott H. Allen, Lee T. Schaller, Ronald G. Sherrill, Tomokazu Yoshinaga, Masanori Kobayashi, Chiaki Wakasa-Morimoto, Shigeru Miki, Koichiro Nakahara, Takeshi Noshi, Akihiko Sato, and Tamio Fujiwara
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1899
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Decline in Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine-Resistant Alleles after Change in Drug Policy in the Amazon Region of Peru
Zhiyong Zhou, Sean M. Griffing, Alexandre Macedo de Oliveira, Andrea M. McCollum, Wilmer Marquino Quezada, Nancy Arrospide, Ananias A. Escalante, and Venkatachalam Udhayakumar
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. May 2008 52: 1900
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