Challenges in the clinical assessment of novel tuberculosis drugs

KE Dooley, PPJ Phillips, P Nahid… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
To tackle the global TB epidemic effectively, novel treatment strategies are critically needed
to shorten the duration of TB therapy and treat drug-resistant TB. Drug development for TB …

Advancing the development of new tuberculosis treatment regimens: the essential role of translational and clinical pharmacology and microbiology

KE Dooley, D Hanna, V Mave, K Eisenach… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Application of clinical pharmacology best practices is essential to the efficient and rational
development of drugs. In general, knowledge gained about exposure–response …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing tuberculosis drug regimen development through innovative quantitative translational pharmacology methods and approaches

D Hanna, K Romero, M Schito - International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017 - Elsevier
The development of novel tuberculosis (TB) multi-drug regimens that are more efficacious
and of shorter duration requires a robust drug development pipeline. Advances in …

Anti-tuberculosis treatment strategies and drug development: challenges and priorities

VA Dartois, EJ Rubin - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Despite two decades of intensified research to understand and cure tuberculosis disease,
biological uncertainties remain and hamper progress. However, owing to collaborative …

Understanding pharmacokinetics to improve tuberculosis treatment outcome

J Reynolds, SK Heysell - Expert opinion on drug metabolism & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a curable infectious
disease; drug-resistant TB threatens to dismantle all prior gains in global control. Suboptimal …

Toward an evidence-based nonclinical road map for evaluating the efficacy of new tuberculosis (TB) drug regimens: Proceedings of a critical path to TB drug regimens …

E Nuermberger, C Sizemore, K Romero… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Novel tuberculosis (TB) drug regimens are urgently needed, and their development will be
enabled by improved preclinical approaches that more effectively inform and ensure safe …

The present state of the tuberculosis drug development pipeline

MDJ Libardo, HIM Boshoff, CE Barry III - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis now ranks as the leading cause of death in the world due to a single infectious
agent. Current standard of care treatment can achieve very high cure rates for drug-sensitive …

Development of new tuberculosis drugs: translation to regimen composition for drug-sensitive and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

JP Ernest, N Strydom, Q Wang, N Zhang… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other infectious disease. Challenges for
developing better treatments include the complex pathology due to within-host immune …

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 …

Challenges associated with current and future TB treatment

M Laurenzi, A Ginsberg… - Infectious Disorders-Drug …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Current tuberculosis (TB) treatment is based on a combination of drugs that were developed
mostly in the central decades of the last century. Cure rates are high for drug sensitive …