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Contents: January 2009, Volume 53, Issue 1

       Instructions To Authors

       Minireviews

       Mechanisms of Action

       Experimental Therapeutics

       Mechanisms of Resistance

       Analytical Procedures

       Antiviral Agents

       Susceptibility

       Pharmacology

       Clinical Therapeutics

       Letters

       Errata

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Instructions To Authors:

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY: 2009 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 1-23;
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Minireviews:

Antifungal Therapeutic Drug Monitoring: Established and Emerging Indications
David Andes, Andres Pascual, and Oscar Marchetti
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 24-34; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00705-08
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Mechanisms of Action:

Effect of Electrical Current on the Activities of Antimicrobial Agents against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilms
Jose L. del Pozo, Mark S. Rouse, Jayawant N. Mandrekar, Marta Fernandez Sampedro, James M. Steckelberg, and Robin Patel
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 35-40; published ahead of print August 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00237-08
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The Electricidal Effect: Reduction of Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas Biofilms by Prolonged Exposure to Low-Intensity Electrical Current
Jose L. del Pozo, Mark S. Rouse, Jayawant N. Mandrekar, James M. Steckelberg, and Robin Patel
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 41-45; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00680-08
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Structure-Activity Relationships of Antimicrobial and Lipoteichoic Acid-Sequestering Properties in Polyamine Sulfonamides
Hemamali J. Warshakoon, Mark R. Burns, and Sunil A. David
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 57-62; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00812-08
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Rapid Depletion of Free Vancomycin in Medium in the Presence of β-Lactam Antibiotics and Growth Restoration in Staphylococcus aureus Strains with β-Lactam-Induced Vancomycin Resistance
Chie Yanagisawa, Hideaki Hanaki, Hidehito Matsui, Shinsuke Ikeda, Taiji Nakae, and Keisuke Sunakawa
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 63-68; published ahead of print October 20, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00762-08
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Inhibition of Methionyl-tRNA Synthetase by REP8839 and Effects of Resistance Mutations on Enzyme Activity
Louis S. Green, James M. Bullard, Wendy Ribble, Frank Dean, David F. Ayers, Urs A. Ochsner, Nebojsa Janjic, and Thale C. Jarvis
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 86-94; published ahead of print November 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00275-08
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Evaluation of the Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Hydroxychavicol for Its Potential Use as an Oral Care Agent
Sandeep Sharma, Inshad Ali Khan, Intzar Ali, Furqan Ali, Manoj Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Rakesh Kamal Johri, Sheikh Tasduq Abdullah, Sarang Bani, Anjali Pandey, Krishan Avtar Suri, Bishan Datt Gupta, Naresh Kumar Satti, Prabhu Dutt, and Ghulam Nabi Qazi
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 216-222; published ahead of print June 23, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00045-08
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Experimental Therapeutics:

Development and Qualification of a Pharmacodynamic Model for the Pronounced Inoculum Effect of Ceftazidime against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Jürgen B. Bulitta, Neang S. Ly, Jenny C. Yang, Alan Forrest, William J. Jusko, and Brian T. Tsuji
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 46-56; published ahead of print October 13, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00489-08
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Polysorbate 80 Inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation and Its Cleavage by the Secreted Lipase LipA
Christine M. Toutain-Kidd, Samoneh C. Kadivar, Carolyn T. Bramante, Stephen A. Bobin, and Michael E. Zegans
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 136-145; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00500-08
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Absence of CD4⁺ T Lymphocytes, CD8⁺ T Lymphocytes, or B Lymphocytes Has Different Effects on the Efficacy of Posaconazole and Benznidazole in Treatment of Experimental Acute Trypanosoma cruzi Infection
Marcela L. Ferraz, Ricardo T. Gazzinelli, Rosana O. Alves, Julio A. Urbina, and Alvaro J. Romanha
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 174-179; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00779-08
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Efficacy of Ciprofloxacin and Moxifloxacin against Nocardia brasiliensis In Vitro and in an Experimental Model of Actinomycetoma in BALB/c Mice
Brenda Edith Chacon-Moreno, Oliverio Welsh, Norma Cavazos-Rocha, Maria de la Luz Salazar-Cavazos, Hector Gerardo Garza-Lozano, Salvador Said-Fernandez, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani, and Lucio Vera-Cabrera
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 295-297; published ahead of print October 13, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01023-08
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Testing of Experimental Compounds in a Relapse Model of Tuberculosis Using Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Gene-Disrupted Mice
Lisa K. Woolhiser, Donald R. Hoff, Karen S. Marietta, Ian M. Orme, and Anne J. Lenaerts
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 306-308; published ahead of print October 13, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01346-07
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Mechanisms of Resistance:

Novel Chimeric β-Lactamase CTX-M-64, a Hybrid of CTX-M-15-Like and CTX-M-14 β-Lactamases, Found in a Shigella sonnei Strain Resistant to Various Oxyimino-Cephalosporins, Including Ceftazidime
Yukiko Nagano, Noriyuki Nagano, Jun-ichi Wachino, Keiko Ishikawa, and Yoshichika Arakawa
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 69-74; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00227-08
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Widespread Dissemination of Aminoglycoside Resistance Genes armA and rmtB in Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates in Taiwan Producing CTX-M-Type Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases
Ling Ma, Chi-Jan Lin, Jiun-Han Chen, Chang-Phone Fung, Feng-Yee Chang, Yiu-Kay Lai, Jung-Chung Lin, L. K. Siu and the Taiwan Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance Project
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 104-111; published ahead of print October 20, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00852-08
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Correlating Echinocandin MIC and Kinetic Inhibition of fks1 Mutant Glucan Synthases for Candida albicans: Implications for Interpretive Breakpoints
Guillermo Garcia-Effron, Steven Park, and David S. Perlin
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 112-122; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01162-08
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Inactivation of KsgA, a 16S rRNA Methyltransferase, Causes Vigorous Emergence of Mutants with High-Level Kasugamycin Resistance
Kozo Ochi, Ji-Yun Kim, Yukinori Tanaka, Guojun Wang, Kenta Masuda, Hideaki Nanamiya, Susumu Okamoto, Shinji Tokuyama, Yoshikazu Adachi, and Fujio Kawamura
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 193-201; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00873-08
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Relationships among Ciprofloxacin, Gatifloxacin, Levofloxacin, and Norfloxacin MICs for Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Escherichia coli Clinical Isolates
Lauren Becnel Boyd, Merry J. Maynard, Sonia K. Morgan-Linnell, Lori Banks Horton, Richard Sucgang, Richard J. Hamill, Javier Rojo Jimenez, James Versalovic, David Steffen, and Lynn Zechiedrich
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 229-234; published ahead of print October 6, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00722-08
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Mechanisms Accounting for Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Escherichia coli Clinical Isolates
Sonia K. Morgan-Linnell, Lauren Becnel Boyd, David Steffen, and Lynn Zechiedrich
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 235-241; published ahead of print October 6, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00665-08
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Sec- and Tat-Dependent Translocation of β-Lactamases across the Escherichia coli Inner Membrane
N. Pradel, J. Delmas, L. F. Wu, C. L. Santini, and R. Bonnet
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 242-248; published ahead of print November 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00642-08
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Plasmid-Mediated 16S rRNA Methylases in Aminoglycoside-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Isolates in Shanghai, China
Qiong Wu, Yibo Zhang, Lizhong Han, Jingyong Sun, and Yuxing Ni
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 271-272; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00748-08
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Characterization of tet(32) Genes from the Oral Metagenome
Philip Warburton, Adam P. Roberts, Elaine Allan, Lorna Seville, Holli Lancaster, and Peter Mullany
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 273-276; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00788-08
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Relative Strengths of the Class 1 Integron Promoter Hybrid 2 and the Combinations of Strong and Hybrid 1 with an Active P2 Promoter
Costas C. Papagiannitsis, Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis, and Vivi Miriagou
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 277-280; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00912-08
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Nationwide Survey of CTX-M-Type Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases among Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates in Slovenian Hospitals
K. Mesko Meglic, S. Koren, M. F. I. Palepou, E. Karisik, D. M. Livermore, R. Pike, A. Andlovic, S. Jeverica, V. Krizan-Hergouth, M. Müller-Premru, K. Seme, the Slovenian ESBL Study Group, and N. Woodford
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 287-291; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00746-08
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KPC-2-Producing Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas putida Coinfection in a Liver Transplant Recipient
Jason W. Bennett, Monica L. Herrera, James S. Lewis, II, Brian W. Wickes, and James H. Jorgensen
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 292-294; published ahead of print October 13, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00931-08
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Klebsiella pneumoniae OmpA Confers Resistance to Antimicrobial Peptides
Enrique Llobet, Catalina March, Paloma Giménez, and José A. Bengoechea
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 298-302; published ahead of print November 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00657-08
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Role of the Ser-287-Asn Replacement in the Hydrolysis Spectrum Extension of AmpC β-Lactamases in Escherichia coli
Hedi Mammeri, Moreno Galleni, and Patrice Nordmann
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 323-326; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00608-08
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Analytical Procedures:

Microanalysis of β-Lactam Antibiotics and Vancomycin in Plasma for Pharmacokinetic Studies in Neonates
Maurice J. Ahsman, Enno D. Wildschut, Dick Tibboel, and Ron A. Mathot
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 75-80; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00636-08
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International Interlaboratory Proficiency Testing Program for Measurement of Azole Antifungal Plasma Concentrations
Roger J. M. Brüggemann, Daan J. Touw, Rob E. Aarnoutse, Paul E. Verweij, and David M. Burger
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 303-305; published ahead of print November 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00901-08
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Antiviral Agents:

Diverse Cytomegalovirus UL27 Mutations Adapt to Loss of Viral UL97 Kinase Activity under Maribavir
Sunwen Chou
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 81-85; published ahead of print November 3, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01177-08
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Pharmacokinetics of BILR 355 after Multiple Oral Doses Coadministered with a Low Dose of Ritonavir
Fenglei Huang, Kristin Drda, Thomas R. MacGregor, Joseph Scherer, Lois Rowland, Thuy Nguyen, Charles Ballow, Mark Castles, and Patrick Robinson
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 95-103; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00752-08
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Pharmacodynamics of Cidofovir for Vaccinia Virus Infection in an In Vitro Hollow-Fiber Infection Model System
James J. McSharry, Mark R. Deziel, Kris Zager, Qingmei Weng, and George L. Drusano
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 129-135; published ahead of print October 13, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00708-08
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Novel Nucleotide Human Immunodeficiency Virus Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor GS-9148 with a Low Nephrotoxic Potential: Characterization of Renal Transport and Accumulation
Tomas Cihlar, Genevieve LaFlamme, Robyn Fisher, Anne C. Carey, Jennifer E. Vela, Richard Mackman, and Adrian S. Ray
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 150-156; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01183-08
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CS-8958, a Prodrug of the New Neuraminidase Inhibitor R-125489, Shows Long-Acting Anti-Influenza Virus Activity
Makoto Yamashita, Takanori Tomozawa, Masayo Kakuta, Akane Tokumitsu, Hatsumi Nasu, and Shuku Kubo
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 186-192; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00333-08
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Activity of T-705 in a Hamster Model of Yellow Fever Virus Infection in Comparison with That of a Chemically Related Compound, T-1106
Justin G. Julander, Kristiina Shafer, Donald F. Smee, John D. Morrey, and Yousuke Furuta
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 202-209; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01074-08
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A 6-Aminoquinolone Compound, WC5, with Potent and Selective Anti-Human Cytomegalovirus Activity
Beatrice Mercorelli, Giulia Muratore, Elisa Sinigalia, Oriana Tabarrini, Maria Angela Biasolo, Violetta Cecchetti, Giorgio Palù, and Arianna Loregian
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 312-315; published ahead of print November 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00988-08
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Susceptibility:

Activity of Indenoisoquinolines against African Trypanosomes
Rahul P. Bakshi, Dongpei Sang, Andrew Morrell, Mark Cushman, and Theresa A. Shapiro
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 123-128; published ahead of print September 29, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00650-07
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Evaluation of Screening Methods To Detect Plasmid-Mediated AmpC in Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Proteus mirabilis
Thean Yen Tan, Lily Siew Yong Ng, Jie He, Tse Hsien Koh, and Li Yang Hsu
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 146-149; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00862-08
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In Vitro Model of Mycobacterial Growth Arrest Using Nitric Oxide with Limited Air
Syed Hussain, Muhammad Malik, Lanbo Shi, Maria Laura Gennaro, and Karl Drlica
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 157-161; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00442-08
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In Vitro Activities of a Novel Nanoemulsion against Burkholderia and Other Multidrug-Resistant Cystic Fibrosis-Associated Bacterial Species
John J. LiPuma, Sivaprakash Rathinavelu, Bridget K. Foster, Jordan C. Keoleian, Paul E. Makidon, Linda M. Kalikin, and James R. Baker, Jr.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 249-255; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00691-08
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Antifungal Activities of Human Beta-Defensins HBD-1 to HBD-3 and Their C-Terminal Analogs Phd1 to Phd3
Viswanatha Krishnakumari, Nandini Rangaraj, and Ramakrishnan Nagaraj
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 256-260; published ahead of print September 22, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00470-08
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Genotypic versus Phenotypic Characterization, with Respect to β-Lactam Susceptibility, of Haemophilus influenzae Isolates Exhibiting Decreased Susceptibility to β-Lactam Resistance Markers
David Sevillano, María-José Giménez, Emilia Cercenado, Fabio Cafini, Amadeo Gené, Luis Alou, Francesc Marco, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Pilar Coronel, and Lorenzo Aguilar
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 267-270; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00402-08
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Study of the In Vitro Activities of Rifaximin and Comparator Agents against 536 Anaerobic Intestinal Bacteria from the Perspective of Potential Utility in Pathology Involving Bowel Flora
S. M. Finegold, D. Molitoris, and M.-L. Väisänen
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 281-286; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00441-08
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Antifungal Susceptibilities among Different Serotypes of Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans
George R. Thompson, III, Nathan P. Wiederhold, Annette W. Fothergill, Ana C. Vallor, Brian L. Wickes, and Thomas F. Patterson
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 309-311; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01216-08
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Susceptibility of Mycobacterium bovis BCG Vaccine Strains to Antituberculous Antibiotics
Nicole Ritz, Marc Tebruegge, Tom G. Connell, Aina Sievers, Roy Robins-Browne, and Nigel Curtis
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 316-318; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01302-08
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In Vitro Activity of Tomopenem (CS-023/RO4908463) against Anaerobic Bacteria
Kaori Tanaka, Hiroshige Mikamo, Kenichi Nakao, Taku Ichiishi, Takatsugu Goto, Yuka Yamagishi, and Kunitomo Watanabe
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 319-322; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00595-08
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Pharmacology:

Interaction Studies of Tipranavir-Ritonavir with Clarithromycin, Fluconazole, and Rifabutin in Healthy Volunteers
Charles J. L. la Porte, John P. Sabo, Mabrouk Elgadi, and D. William Cameron
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 162-173; published ahead of print November 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00534-08
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Tissue Accumulation of Cephalothin in Burns: a Comparative Study by Microdialysis of Subcutaneous Interstitial Fluid Cephalothin Concentrations in Burn Patients and Healthy Volunteers
Andrew J. Dalley, Jeffrey Lipman, Renae Deans, Bala Venkatesh, Michael Rudd, Michael S. Roberts, and Sheree E. Cross
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 210-215; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00718-08
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Optimized Elution of Daptomycin from Polymethylmethacrylate Beads
Brian D. Weiss, Elizabeth C. Weiss, Warren O. Haggard, Richard P. Evans, Sandra G. McLaren, and Mark S. Smeltzer
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 264-266; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00258-08
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Clinical Therapeutics:

Chloroquine Is Grossly Overdosed and Overused but Well Tolerated in Guinea-Bissau
Johan Ursing, Poul-Erik Kofoed, Amabelia Rodrigues, Yngve Bergqvist, and Lars Rombo
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 180-185; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01111-08
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Clinical Outcomes, Safety, and Pharmacokinetics of OPT-80 in a Phase 2 Trial with Patients with Clostridium difficile Infection
T. Louie, M. Miller, C. Donskey, K. Mullane, and E. J. C. Goldstein
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 223-228; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01442-07
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OPT-80 Eliminates Clostridium difficile and Is Sparing of Bacteroides Species during Treatment of C. difficile Infection
Thomas J. Louie, Judy Emery, Walter Krulicki, Brendan Byrne, and Manuel Mah
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 261-263; published ahead of print October 27, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.01443-07
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Letters:

Detection of the Pandemic O25-ST131 Human Virulent Escherichia coli CTX-M-15-Producing Clone Harboring the qnrB2 and aac(6')-Ib-cr Genes in a Dog
Constança Pomba, Joana Diniz da Fonseca, Bruno Coelho Baptista, José Duarte Correia, and Luis Martínez-Martínez
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 327-328; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00896-08
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Site-Directed Mutagenesis Reveals Amino Acid Residues in the Escherichia coli RND Efflux Pump AcrB That Confer Macrolide Resistance
Caroline Wehmeier, Sabine Schuster, Eva Fähnrich, Winfried V. Kern, and Jürgen A. Bohnert
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 329-330; published ahead of print October 20, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00921-08
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The First Metallo-β-Lactamase Identified in Norway Is Associated with a TniC-Like Transposon in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolate of Sequence Type 233 Imported from Ghana
Ørjan Samuelsen, Liselotte Buarø, Mark A. Toleman, Christian G. Giske, Nils O. Hermansen, Timothy R. Walsh, and Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 331-332; published ahead of print November 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00785-08
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First Report of KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains in Brazil
Jussimara Monteiro, Anderson Fernandes Santos, Marise Dutra Asensi, Gisele Peirano, and Ana Cristina Gales
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 333-334; published ahead of print November 17, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00736-08
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High Prevalence of the aac(6')-Ib-cr Gene and Its Dissemination among Enterobacteriaceae Isolates by CTX-M-15 Plasmids in Bulgaria
Stefana Sabtcheva, Mitsuo Kaku, Tomoo Saga, Yoshikazu Ishii, and Todor Kantardjiev
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 335-336; published ahead of print November 10, 2008, doi:10.1128/AAC.00584-08
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Cefepime MIC Breakpoint Resettlement in Gram-Negative Bacteria
Bum Sik Chin, Won Youl Seo, David L. Paterson, Brian A. Potoski, and Anton Y. Peleg
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 337-338;
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Errata:

A Practical Guide to Measuring Mutation Rates in Antibiotic Resistance
Cassie F. Pope, Denise M. O'Sullivan, Timothy D. McHugh, and Stephen H. Gillespie
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 339
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Prevalence and Mechanisms of Broad-Spectrum β-Lactam Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: a Children's Hospital Experience
Xuan Qin, Danielle M. Zerr, Scott J. Weissman, Janet A. Englund, Donna M. Denno, Eileen J. Klein, Phillip I. Tarr, Justin Kwong, Jennifer R. Stapp, Luis G. Tulloch, and Emmanouil Galanakis
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. January 2009 53: 340
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Identification and Biochemical Characterization of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of West Nile Virus Serine Protease by a High-Throughput Screen
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