The antibiotic resistance of 16 Aeromonas (A.) salmonicida strains isolated from diseased fish and environmental samples in Korea from 2006 to 2009 were investigated in this study. Tetracycline or quinolone resistance was observed in eight and 16 of the isolates, respectively, based on the measured minimal inhibitory concentrations. Among the tetracycline-resistant strains, seven of the isolate...

INTRODUCTION Rapid dissemination of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) has been reported in clinical isolates. METHODOLOGY A total of 149 clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae were collected in Beijing and screened for PMQR genes using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Real-time quantitative PCR was used to study the expression of qnrS. RESULTS The rates of qnr and aac(6')-Ib-cr ...

We investigated the antibacterial activity of four newly developed quinolone agents, temafloxacin (TMFX, TA-167), sparfloxacin (SPFX , AT -4140) , OPC -17116 and Y 26611 against Legionella was investigated both in vitro and in vivo and compared them with those of other quinolone agents and with erythromycin. In vitro strength of the antibacterial activity was found to be in the order of stronge...

Turtle-borne Salmonella enterica owns significance as a leading cause in human salmonellosis. The current study aimed to determine the quinolone susceptibility and the genetic characteristics of 21 strains of S. enterica subsp. enterica isolated from pet turtles. Susceptibility of four antimicrobials including nalidixic acid, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin was examined in disk diffu...

Antimicrobial-resistant pathogenic members of the Enterobacteriaceae are a well-defined global problem. We hypothesized that one of the main reservoirs of dissemination of antimicrobial resistance genes in Vietnam is non-pathogenic intestinal flora, and sought to isolate antimicrobial-resistant organisms from hospitalized patients and non-hospitalized healthy individuals in Ho Chi Minh City. Th...

Eight hundred and eighty-three strains of Campylobacter spp. isolated between 1982 and 1989 from human stools and poultry products were screened for quinolone resistance. In this period the prevalence of resistant strains isolated from poultry products increased from 0% to 14%. During the same period the prevalence in man increased from 0% to 11%. The emergence of quinolone resistance has impli...

Reaction of 4-hydroxy-7-methoxy-2(lH)-quinolone (1) with iodosobenzenes, prepared in situ from the dichloroiodo compounds 2a,b, afforded the iodoniumylides 3a,b in good yields. Their thermal rearrangement produced the 3-iodo-4-aryloxy-quinolones 4a,b. Reductive -deiodinatton of 4a,b gave the corresponding arylethers 5a,b. By photocyclization 4a as well as 5a yielded the benzofuro-quinolone 6a (...

OBJECTIVES To investigate how the SOS response, an error-prone DNA repair pathway, is expressed following subinhibitory quinolone treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. METHODS Genome-wide expression profiling followed by quantitative RT (qRT)-PCR was used to study the effect of ciprofloxacin on M. tuberculosis gene expression. RESULTS Microarray analysis showed that 16/110 genes involved...

Six 4-substituted quinolones 6-8, which bear an ω-iodoalkyl chain, were prepared and subjected to reductive radical cyclisation conditions employing BEt(3)/O(2) as the initiator and either Bu(3)SnH or TMS(3)SiH as hydride source. 4-(4-Iodobutyl)-quinolone (6a) and 4-(3-iodopropylthio)-quinolone (8a) gave the respective 6-endo-cyclisation products in good yields. 4-(3,3-Dimethyl-4-iodobutyl)-qui...

Quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli (QREC) strains are being isolated with increasing frequency. From 1993 to 1998, 40 cases of QREC bacteremia were observed in a teaching hospital; 25 episodes (63.5%) were community-acquired. The incidence of QREC bacteremia increased steadily, from 6.7% to 24.6% during 5 years, and correlated with the significantly increased use of fluoroquinolones (P = .003...