[HTML][HTML] Analysis of combination drug therapy to develop regimens with shortened duration of treatment for tuberculosis

GL Drusano, M Neely, M Van Guilder, A Schumitzky… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Rationale Tuberculosis remains a worldwide problem, particularly with the advent of multi-
drug resistance. Shortening therapy duration for Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major goal …

Transformation morphisms and time-to-extinction analysis that map therapy duration from preclinical models to patients with tuberculosis: translating from apples to …

G Magombedze, JG Pasipanodya… - Clinical Infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background A major challenge in medicine is translation of preclinical model findings to
humans, especially therapy duration. One major example is recent shorter-duration therapy …

Building optimal three-drug combination chemotherapy regimens to eradicate mycobacterium tuberculosis in its slow-growth acid phase

S Kim, WM Yamada, B Duncanson, J Nole… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolic state affects the response to therapy. Quantifying the
effect of antimicrobials in the acid and nonreplicating metabolic phases of M. tuberculosis …

New initiative speeds tuberculosis drug development: novel drug regimens become possible in years, not decades

M Spigelman, R Woosley… - The international journal …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
NEW TOOLS to improve the treatment and control of tuberculosis (TB) are a critical
component of any comprehensive strategy to eradicate the global TB epidemic. In particular …

Tuberculosis: an overview of the immunogenic response, disease progression, and medicinal chemistry efforts in the last decade toward the development of potential …

A Sharma, M De Rosa, N Singla, G Singh… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis (TB) is a slow growing, potentially debilitating disease that has plagued
humanity for centuries and has claimed numerous lives across the globe. Concerted efforts …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in diagnostics and drug discovery against resistant and latent tuberculosis infection

C Shleider Carnero Canales, J Marquez Cazorla… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) represents a subclinical, asymptomatic mycobacterial
state affecting approximately 25% of the global population. The substantial prevalence of …

[HTML][HTML] Combining Metabolite-Based Pharmacophores with Bayesian Machine Learning Models for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Discovery

S Ekins, PB Madrid, M Sarker, SG Li, N Mittal, P Kumar… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Integrated computational approaches for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are useful to
identify new molecules that could lead to future tuberculosis (TB) drugs. Our approach uses …

Tuberculosis—advances in development of new drugs, treatment regimens, host-directed therapies, and biomarkers

RS Wallis, M Maeurer, P Mwaba, J Chakaya… - The Lancet infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide, with 9· 6 million cases and
1· 5 million deaths reported in 2014. WHO estimates 480 000 cases of these were multidrug …

TB drug development: immunology at the table

C Nathan, CE Barry III - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the host‐pathogen relationship in tuberculosis (TB) can help guide
drug discovery in at least two ways. First, the recognition that host immunopathology affects …

Pharmacokinetic evaluation of the penetration of antituberculosis agents in rabbit pulmonary lesions

MC Kjellsson, LE Via, A Goh, D Weiner… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Standard antituberculosis (anti-TB) therapy requires the use of multiple drugs for a minimum
of 6 months, with variable outcomes that are influenced by a number of microbiological …