Drug resistance mechanisms and drug susceptibility testing for tuberculosis

P Miotto, Y Zhang, DM Cirillo, WC Yam - Respirology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… The majority of drug resistance in clinical MTB strains is attributed to chromosomal mutations…
resistance leading to drug resistance include drug target alteration, overexpression of drug

Drug resistance in human African trypanosomiasis

MP Barrett, IM Vincent, RJS Burchmore… - Future …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… This helped influence a decision to move to eflornithine as first line treatment at the Omugo
Treatment Center in Northern Uganda. Interestingly, when parasite genotypes were tested …

Drug resistance reversal—are we getting closer?

RD Baird, SB Kaye - European Journal of Cancer, 2003 - Elsevier
… , and may be due to inadequate drug exposure or alterations in the cancer … drug resistance,
focussing on work in our institution related to the treatment of ovarian cancer and resistance

… : A non-antibiotic drug highly effective, in combination with first line anti-tuberculosis drugs, against any form of antibiotic resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis due …

L Amaral, M Viveiros - Antibiotics, 2017 - mdpi.com
… phenotype, as well as in vivo as a therapy for mice infected with multi-drug resistant
strains of Mtb, or for human subjects infected with extensively drug resistant (XDR) Mtb. The …

[PDF][PDF] Drug resistance in malaria

U Farooq, RC Mahajan - Journal of vector borne diseases, 2004 - researchgate.net
… pyrimethamine (SP) as first line drug for the treatment of … first line drug to SP. In 1985,
eventually SP was replaced by mefloquine. The rapid development of resistance to this new drug

Mycobacterium tuberculosis population structure determines the outcome of genetics-based second-line drug resistance testing

EM Streicher, I Bergval, K Dheda… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
drug resistance tests in settings where drug resistance is … resistant to second-line anti-TB
drugs differs from what has been reported previously for resistance to first-line anti-TB drugs in …

[HTML][HTML] Anticancer drug resistance: An update and perspective

R Nussinov, CJ Tsai, H Jang - Drug Resistance Updates, 2021 - Elsevier
… In the current review we ask: Are drug resistance mechanisms that emerge following … lead
to the same drug resistance modality? This question portends critical drug treatment decisions (…

Initial drug resistance and tuberculosis treatment outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis

W Lew, M Pai, O Oxlade, D Martin… - Annals of internal …, 2008 - acpjournals.org
Resistance to antituberculosis drugs was first described soon after the introduction of … ), the
prevalence of drug resistance to any of the standard first-line tuberculosis drugs ranged from …

[HTML][HTML] Drug-resistant tuberculosis: challenges and opportunities for diagnosis and treatment

A Koch, H Cox, V Mizrahi - Current Opinion in pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
… , it is important to distinguish drug resistance — the heritable ability of an organism to resist
the effects of an antibiotic to which its parent was susceptible — from drug tolerance and …

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

NS Shah, A Wright, GH Bai, L Barrera… - Emerging infectious …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… such extensive drug resistance as to be nearly untreatable with currently available drugs,
according to international guidelines. We provide data on second-linedrug resistance for the …