Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Volume 56 No 2 February 2012

Efficacy of Daptomycin versus Vancomycin in an Experimental Model of Foreign-Body and Systemic Infection Caused by Biofilm Producers and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis

J. Domínguez-Herrera, F. Docobo-Pérez, R. López-Rojas, C. Pichardo, R. Ruiz-Valderas, J. A. Lepe, and J. Pachón

Evaluation of Once-Daily Vancomycin against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Hollow-Fiber Infection Model

Anthony M. Nicasio, Jürgen B. Bulitta, Thomas P. Lodise, Rebecca E. D'Hondt, Robert Kulawy, Arnold Louie, and George L. Drusano

Importance of Confirming Data on the In Vivo Efficacy of Novel Antibacterial Drug Regimens against Various Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mary A. De Groote, Veronica Gruppo, Lisa K. Woolhiser, Ian M. Orme, Janet C. Gilliland, and Anne J. Lenaerts

Aerosolized Gentamicin Reduces the Burden of Tuberculosis in a Murine Model

Chad J. Roy, Satheesh K. Sivasubramani, Noton K. Dutta, Smriti Mehra, Nadia A. Golden, Stephanie Killeen, James D. Talton, Badre E. Hammoud, Peter J. Didier, and Deepak Kaushal

Immobilization of Antibacterial Dihydropyrrol-2-ones on Functional Polymer Supports To Prevent Bacterial Infections In Vivo

Kitty Ka Kit Ho, Nerida Cole, Renxun Chen, Mark D. P. Willcox, Scott A. Rice, and Naresh Kumar

PD 404,182 Is a Virocidal Small Molecule That Disrupts Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Ana Maria Chamoun, Karuppiah Chockalingam, Michael Bobardt, Rudo Simeon, Jinhong Chang, Philippe Gallay, and Zhilei Chen

Inactivation of the Lipopeptide Antibiotic Daptomycin by Hydrolytic Mechanisms

Vanessa M. D'Costa, Tariq A. Mukhtar, Tejal Patel, Kalinka Koteva, Nicholas Waglechner, Donald W. Hughes, Gerard D. Wright, and Gianfranco De Pascale

Improved Antibiotic-Impregnated Catheters with Extended-Spectrum Activity against Resistant Bacteria and Fungi

Issam Raad, Jamal A. Mohamed, Ruth A. Reitzel, Ying Jiang, Sammy Raad, Munirah Al Shuaibi, Anne-Marie Chaftari, and Ray Y. Hachem

Decoding the Functional Roles of Cationic Side Chains of the Major Antimicrobial Region of Human Cathelicidin LL-37

Guangshun Wang, Raquel F. Epand, Biswajit Mishra, Tamara Lushnikova, Vinai Chittezham Thomas, Kenneth W. Bayles, and Richard M. Epand