Advancing host-directed therapy for tuberculosis

RS Wallis, R Hafner - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Improved treatments are needed for nearly all forms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
Adjunctive host-directed therapies have the potential to shorten tuberculosis treatment …

Host-directed therapies for tuberculosis

DM Tobin - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2015 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Host-directed therapies are a relatively new and promising approach to treatment of
tuberculosis. Modulation of specific host immune pathways, including those that impact …

Towards host-directed therapies for tuberculosis

A Zumla, J Chakaya, M Hoelscher, F Ntoumi… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
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Host-directed therapeutics for tuberculosis: can we harness the host?

TR Hawn, AI Matheson, SN Maley… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remains challenging, with lengthy treatment durations and
complex drug regimens that are toxic and difficult to administer. Similar to the vast majority of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic host-directed strategies to improve outcome in tuberculosis

C Young, G Walzl, N Du Plessis - Mucosal immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only licenced tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, but
has limited efficacy against pulmonary TB disease development and modest protection …

[HTML][HTML] Host-directed therapies: modulating inflammation to treat tuberculosis

S Krug, S Parveen, WR Bishai - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Following infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis
(TB), most human hosts are able to contain the infection and avoid progression to active TB …

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 therapeutic strategies for tuberculosis

A Kolloli, S Subbian - Frontiers in medicine, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains a leading cause of
morbidity and mortality in humans worldwide. Currently, the standard treatment for TB …

Effects of host‐directed therapies on the pathology of tuberculosis

L Tsenova, A Singhal - The Journal of pathology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), has co‐evolved with
the human immune system and utilizes multiple strategies to persist within infected cells, to …