Daptomycin

M Heidary, AD Khosravi, S Khoshnood… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic used for the treatment of Gram-positive
infections including complicated skin and skin structure infections, right-sided infective …

The role of antibiotics in modulating virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

E Hodille, W Rose, BA Diep, S Goutelle… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus aureus is often involved in severe infections, in which the effects of bacterial
virulence factors have great importance. Antistaphylococcal regimens should take into …

Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin induces an inflammatory response in human phagocytes via the NLRP3 inflammasome

D Holzinger, L Gieldon, V Mysore… - Journal of leukocyte …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Activation of the NLRP3-inflammasome contributes to Staphylococcus aureus PVL-
associated diseases, such as necrotizing pneumonia. The Staphylococcus aureus pore …

Blood, tissue, and intracellular concentrations of azithromycin during and after end of therapy

P Matzneller, S Krasniqi, M Kinzig… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although azithromycin is extensively used in the treatment of respiratory tract infections as
well as skin and skin-related infections, pharmacokinetics of azithromycin in extracellular …

Repurposing immunomodulatory drugs to combat tuberculosis

S Fatima, A Bhaskar, VP Dwivedi - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by an obligate intracellular pathogen,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) and is responsible for the maximum number of deaths …

Do antibiotics cause mitochondrial and immune cell dysfunction? A literature review

M Miller, M Singer - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2022 - academic.oup.com
While antibiotics are clearly important treatments for infection, antibiotic-induced modulation
of the immune system can have detrimental effects on pathogen clearance and immune …

Risk factors for tigecycline-associated hypofibrinogenemia

J Liu, Y Yan, F Zhang - Therapeutics and Clinical Risk …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background With the widespread use of tigecycline, especially in elderly people infected
with multidrug-resistant bacteria, the associated coagulation disorders are attracting the …

Update on staphylococcal superantigen-induced signaling pathways and therapeutic interventions

T Krakauer - Toxins, 2013 - mdpi.com
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) and related bacterial toxins cause diseases in humans
and laboratory animals ranging from food poisoning, acute lung injury to toxic shock. These …

Surviving sepsis in the era of antibiotic resistance: are there any alternative approaches to antibiotic therapy?

DSSM Uppu, C Ghosh, J Haldar - Microbial pathogenesis, 2015 - Elsevier
Sepsis, a serious cause of morbidity in humans, has no proper single medication dedicated
to it. In this review, we look at the current treatment modalities, the different approaches …

Adjunctive protein synthesis inhibitor antibiotics for toxin suppression in Staphylococcus aureus infections: a systematic appraisal

AJ Campbell, R Dotel, CC Blyth… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Protein synthesis inhibitor antibiotics inhibit synthesis of new proteins, including exotoxins
and other important virulence determinants in Staphylococcus aureus. A summary of the …