Issues in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Anti-Infective Agents: Distribution in Tissue Markus Müller, Amparo dela Peña, and Hartmut Derendorf* Health Science Center, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and Vienna General Hospital, Division of Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, V...

We describe a rapid, precise, and reliable procedure for assay of trimethoprim in serum and urine by ion-pair chromatography. Trimethoprim concentrations in urine are determined by an externally standardized, direct-injection procedure; assay in serum involves a simple preliminary extraction and internal standardization. The assays are suitable for pharmacokinetic studies and have been applied ...

To the Editor, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sib,?Writing last month a surgeon?Mr. Tertius Clarke disputes the power of carbolic acid in Surg.-Lt.-Col. Quill's " antiseptic" prescription for enteric fever. He believes that l'5'5% in 36 cases in India" (I presume among young soldiers), "is better than the 4% of Dr. Barr, Liverpool," and yet he is " not inclined to accept Dr. Quill's conclusions as ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in water used for irrigation in the Werribee River Basin, Australia, including river water and reclaimed effluent water (reclaimed water). Samples of reclaimed water, collected over a one-year period, were screened for the occurrence of ARGs using PCR detection assays. The presence of ARGs in the r...

In the title compound, C(14)H(20)N(2)O(2)S, the sulfonamide O atoms lie to one side of the benzene ring and the amino-bicyclo-hepta-nyl to the other side [C(ar)-S-N-C torsion angle = -57.93 (11)°; ar = aromatic]. An intra-molecular N-H⋯N hydrogen bond is formed. In the crystal, a supra-molecular chain is formed along the b axis via N-H⋯O and N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds.

To assess the presence and distribution of the sul genes (sul1, sul2, and sul3) and plasmids in human-mediated environments of north Vietnam, we examined a total of 127 sulfonamide-resistant (SR) bacterial isolates from four shrimp ponds (HNAQs), a city canal (HNCs) and three fish ponds that received wastewater directly from swine farms (HNPs). Results from the SR isolates revealed that sul gen...

deaths continue in their present ratio to be, as they are, the reproach of our art. Attempts more or less successful to prevent them by means of antiseptics are not new. Already the literature on antiseptics in midwifery, although not so bulky as in surgery, is yet by no means inconsiderable. Antiseptics and disinfectants have long been employed in obstetric practice; but of recent years, since...

Factors other than antimicrobial activity of soaps and antiseptic agents used for hand hygiene by health personnel play a role in compliance with recommendations. Hand hygiene products differ considerably in acceptance by hospital personnel. If switching from a nonmedicated soap to an antiseptic agent or increased use of an existing antiseptic agent for hand hygiene prevented a few more infecti...

Joseph S. Solomkin, John E. Mazuski, Ellen J. Baron, Robert G. Sawyer, Avery B. Nathens, Joseph T. DiPiro, Timothy Buchman, E. Patchen Dellinger, John Jernigan, Sherwood Gorbach, Anthony W. Chow, and John Bartlett Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Department...

An attempt has been made to study the action of antiseptics on artificial streptococcal ;wounds' in mice by a published technique (Martin, 1959). The results were not in agreement with those of Martin and the possible reasons for this are discussed. Suggestions are made for modifying the original method to increase its scope and precision. The production and treatment of Ps. pyocyanea and Kl. a...