[HTML][HTML] Emergence and selection of isoniazid and rifampin resistance in tuberculosis granulomas

E Pienaar, JJ Linderman, DE Kirschner - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Drug resistant tuberculosis is increasing world-wide. Resistance against isoniazid (INH),
rifampicin (RIF), or both (multi-drug resistant TB, MDR-TB) is of particular concern, since INH …

A computational tool integrating host immunity with antibiotic dynamics to study tuberculosis treatment

E Pienaar, NA Cilfone, PL Lin, V Dartois… - Journal of theoretical …, 2015 - Elsevier
While active tuberculosis (TB) is a treatable disease, many complex factors prevent its global
elimination. Part of the difficulty in developing optimal therapies is the large design space of …

[HTML][HTML] In silico evaluation and exploration of antibiotic tuberculosis treatment regimens

E Pienaar, V Dartois, JJ Linderman, DE Kirschner - BMC systems biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Improvement in tuberculosis treatment regimens requires selection of
antibiotics and dosing schedules from a large design space of possibilities. Incomplete …

[HTML][HTML] Both pharmacokinetic variability and granuloma heterogeneity impact the ability of the first-line antibiotics to sterilize tuberculosis granulomas

JM Cicchese, V Dartois, DE Kirschner… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) remains as one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases despite the
use of standardized antibiotic therapies. Recommended therapy for drug-susceptible TB is …

[HTML][HTML] A population model capturing dynamics of tuberculosis granulomas predicts host infection outcomes

C Gong, JJ Linderman, D Kirschner - … biosciences and engineering …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Granulomas play a centric role in tuberculosis (TB) infection progression. Multiple
granulomas usually develop within a single host. These granulomas are not synchronized in …

[HTML][HTML] The Role of Adherence and Retreatment in De Novo Emergence of MDR-TB

D Cadosch, P Abel zur Wiesch, R Kouyos… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Treatment failure after therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) infections is an important
challenge, especially when it coincides with de novo emergence of multi-drug-resistant TB …

[HTML][HTML] Bifurcation analysis of a tuberculosis progression model for drug target identification

E Flores-Garza, R Hernández-Pando… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The emergence
and rapid spread of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains urge us to develop novel …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing efficacies of moxifloxacin, levofloxacin and gatifloxacin in tuberculosis granulomas using a multi-scale systems pharmacology approach

E Pienaar, J Sarathy, B Prideaux… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Granulomas are complex lung lesions that are the hallmark of tuberculosis (TB).
Understanding antibiotic dynamics within lung granulomas will be vital to improving and …

A multifaceted approach to modeling the immune response in tuberculosis

S Marino, JJ Linderman… - … : Systems Biology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) is a deadly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Mtb). No available vaccine is reliable and, although treatment exists, approximately 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Oxygen Modulates the Effectiveness of Granuloma Mediated Host Response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A Multiscale Computational Biology Approach

CL Sershen, SJ Plimpton, EE May - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated granuloma formation can be viewed as a structural
immune response that can contain and halt the spread of the pathogen. In several …