New tricks for old dogs: countering antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis with host‐directed therapeutics

TR Hawn, JA Shah, D Kalman - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the availability of M ycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) drugs for over 50 years,
tuberculosis (TB) remains at pandemic levels. New drugs are urgently needed for resistant …

Host directed therapies for tuberculosis: futures strategies for an ancient disease

I Palucci, G Delogu - Chemotherapy, 2018 - karger.com
The emergence and spread of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is
worsening the global threat of tuberculosis (TB). There is a need and urgency for the …

Understanding the reciprocal interplay between antibiotics and host immune system: how can we improve the anti-mycobacterial activity of current drugs to better …

HE Park, W Lee, MK Shin, SJ Shin - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, remains a global
health threat despite recent advances and insights into host-pathogen interactions and the …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in immunomodulatory strategies for host-directed therapies in combating tuberculosis

S Ayodele, P Kumar, A van Eyk… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) maintains its infamous status regarding its detrimental effect on global
health, causing the highest mortality by a single infectious agent. The presence of resistance …

Host-directed therapies to combat tuberculosis and associated non-communicable diseases

P Baindara - Microbial pathogenesis, 2019 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has coevolved with a human host to evade and exploit the
immune system in multiple ways. Mtb is an enormously successful human pathogen that can …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing Host-Pathogen Interactions for Innovative Drug Discovery and Host-Directed Therapeutics to tackle tuberculosis.

S Saini, A Gangwar, R Sharma - Microbiological research, 2023 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly contagious bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb), which has been ranked as the second leading cause of death worldwide …

Potential of immunomodulatory agents as adjunct host-directed therapies for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

A Zumla, M Rao, E Dodoo, M Maeurer - BMC medicine, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is extremely challenging
due to the virulence of the etiologic strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the …

Host-directed therapy as a novel treatment strategy to overcome tuberculosis: targeting immune modulation

S Ahmed, R Raqib, GH Guðmundsson, P Bergman… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity, particularly in
developing countries, presenting a major threat to the public health. The currently …

Host-directed therapies for tuberculosis

EK Jeong, HJ Lee, YJ Jung - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, consistently threatening
public health. Conventional tuberculosis treatment requires a long-term treatment regimen …

Remembering the host in tuberculosis drug development

DJ Frank, DJ Horne, NK Dutta, MT Shaku… - The Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
New therapeutics to augment current approaches and shorten treatment duration are of
critical importance for combating tuberculosis (TB), especially those with novel mechanisms …