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 …

Population pharmacokinetics and its role in anti-tuberculosis drug development and optimization of treatment

E Free Egelund, A Bergesch Barth… - Current …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Tuberculosis (TB) has survived for millennia due to its unique physiochemical properties
and its ability to persist in a “dormant” state. Because of these unique properties, the …

Current status and opportunities for therapeutic drug monitoring in the treatment of tuberculosis

MA Zuur, MS Bolhuis, R Anthony… - Expert opinion on …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Tuberculosis remains a global health problem and pharmacokinetic variability
has been postulated as one of the causes of treatment failure and acquired drug resistance …

The impact of first-line anti-tubercular drugs' pharmacokinetics on treatment outcome: a systematic review

T Sileshi, E Tadesse, E Makonnen… - Clinical pharmacology …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background Tuberculosis remains the major public health problem besides tremendous
efforts to combat it. Most tuberculosis patients are treated with a standard dose of first-line …

[HTML][HTML] Population pharmacokinetics and Bayesian dose adjustment to advance TDM of anti-TB drugs

MGG Sturkenboom, AG Märtson, EM Svensson… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Tuberculosis (TB) is still the number one cause of death due to an infectious disease.
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-TB drugs are key in the optimization of TB …

Biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antituberculosis drugs

NR Budha, RE Lee, B Meibohm - Current medicinal chemistry, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of mortality due to a single infectious agent. The
currently used combination drug regimens produce cure rates that exceed 95%, given good …

Optimizing treatment outcome of first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs: the role of therapeutic drug monitoring

RK Verbeeck, G Günther, D Kibuule, C Hunter… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world's deadliest communicable diseases.
Although cure rates of the standard four-drug (rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide …

[PDF][PDF] Technical report on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK

World Health Organization - 2018 - apps.who.int
With an estimated 1.7 million deaths attributed to it each year, tuberculosis (TB) is the single
leading infectious cause of death in the world. Combined chemotherapy has been the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …