Penicillin

About: Penicillin is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17916 publications have been published within this topic receiving 368480 citations. The topic is also known as: penicillin antibiotic & PCN.

The Combined Action of Penicillin with Streptomycin or Chloromycetin on Enterococci in Vitro.

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Penetration of brain abscess by systemically administered antibiotics

Abstract: ✓ In six consecutive patients treated with systemic antibiotics for brain abscess, chloramphenicol, methicillin, and penicillin were found capable of penetrating the abscess in therapeutic concentration. Nafcillin, a fourth antibiotic tested, failed to penetrate. While on antibiotics, all six patients continued to deteriorate neurologically until needle aspiration of the abscess was carried out, after which recovery began promptly. Organisms were found in the pus despite the presence of therapeutically effective antibiotic levels, and despite the fact that the organisms were sensitive, in vitro, to the antibiotics used. These observations confirm that antibiotics alone are insufficient and that surgical evacuation of the abscess is essential. The need for local instillation of antibiotics directly into abscesses is questionable since penetration following systemic administration of three antibiotics tested was adequate when blood levels were high. It is suggested that the instillation of penicillin or its...

Trends in antibiotic resistance of respiratory pathogens: an analysis and commentary on a collaborative surveillance study

Abstract: The evolution of antibiotic resistance was studied among common respiratory tract pathogens in five countries of the European Union and in the USA during 1992-1993. The data obtained from a collaborative surveillance study were submitted to population analysis, to detect possible shifts in antibiotic susceptibility and, therefore, associated mechanisms of resistance. Among the emerging haemophilus influenzae phenotypes were isolates that did not correspond to the beta-lactamase negative, amino-penicillin resistant (BLNAR) phenotype, but were beta-lactamase producers showing low level ceftriaxone resistance (early extended spectrum beta-lactamases?) amoxycillin susceptible strains with low level ceftriaxone resistance (PBP modification?) and isolates with high-level fluoroquinolone resistance. Moraxella catarrhalis resistance to ceftriaxone erythromycin or fluoroquinolones was noted. The quantitative evolution of antibiotic resistance may reach saturation in some countries with a very high proportion of resistant strains, for example, Spain and France. Qualitatively, resistant strains may be selected that have broader or more effective mechanisms of resistance, particularly under the recently introduced pressure of more active antibiotics of the same family. In countries with modest levels of antibiotic resistance (UK, Germany, Italy), attention should be paid to the misuse of antibiotics with a propensity to select low-level resistant strains. In this respect, the relative prescribing of aminopenicillins and oral cephalosporins in the UK (a high ratio and low prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae) and resistance to penicillin in the USA (a low ratio and high prevalence of resistance) is of potential importance.

Effect of various antibiotics on gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination by Candida albicans

Abstract: Mice were treated orally with various antibiotics to determine which members of the indigenous intestinal microflora normally suppress Candida albicans colonization and dissemination from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The mice were given penicillin, clindamycin, vancomycin, erythromycin, or gentamicin for 3 days, and then challenged orally with C. albicans. Penicillin, clindamycin, and vancomycin, but not gentamicin or erythromycin, decreased the total anaerobic bacterial populations in the animals ceca, and increased the enteric bacilli population levels. All three of the former antibiotics allowed C. albicans to proliferate in the gut and, subsequently, disseminate from the GI tract to visceral organs. The ability of C. albicans to associate with intestinal mucosal surfaces was also tested. It was found that antibiotics which reduced anaerobic population levels, but not enteric bacilli or aerobes, also predisposed animals to mucosal association by C. albicans. It is suggested that the strictly anaerobic bacterial populations which predominate in the gut ecosystem are responsible for the inhibition of C. albicans adhesion, colonization and dissemination from the GI tract.