Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Pathogenesis and therapeutic targets

J Yang, L Zhang, W Qiao, Y Luo - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health concern in the 21st century, especially
due to drug resistance, coinfection with diseases like immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) …

Optimizing tuberculosis treatment efficacy: Comparing the standard regimen with Moxifloxacin-containing regimens

M Budak, JM Cicchese, P Maiello… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world,
causing~ 1.5 million deaths every year. The World Health Organization initiated an End TB …

Combining Cheminformatics Methods and Pathway Analysis to Identify Molecules with Whole-Cell Activity Against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

M Sarker, C Talcott, P Madrid, S Chopra… - Pharmaceutical …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose New strategies for developing inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are
required in order to identify the next generation of tuberculosis (TB) drugs. Our approach …

In vitro model of mycobacteria and HIV-1 co-infection for drug discovery

S Vijayakumar, SF John, RJ Nusbaum, MR Ferguson… - Tuberculosis, 2013 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) has become a global health threat in the wake of the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) pandemic and is the leading cause of death in people with …

Drug regimens identified and optimized by output-driven platform markedly reduce tuberculosis treatment time

BY Lee, DL Clemens, A Silva, BJ Dillon… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The current drug regimens for treating tuberculosis are lengthy and onerous, and hence
complicated by poor adherence leading to drug resistance and disease relapse. Previously …

Challenges and advances in TB drug discovery

G Khare, P Nangpal, AK Tyagi - Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
In this chapter, we provide a comprehensive review of the recent developments and
challenges associated with tuberculosis drug discovery. The chapter begins with an …

Reprogramming the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptome during pathogenesis

SJ Waddell - Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms, 2010 - Elsevier
Transcriptional profiling has revealed that Mycobacterium tuberculosis adapts both its
metabolic and respiratory states during infection, utilising lipids as a carbon source and …

Transcriptional adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that survives prolonged multi-drug treatment in mice

EA Wynn, C Dide-Agossou, M Reichlen… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
To address the ongoing global tuberculosis crisis, there is a need for shorter, more effective
treatments. A major reason why tuberculosis requires prolonged treatment is that, following …

Rising standards for tuberculosis drug development

TS Balganesh, PM Alzari, ST Cole - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Development of new drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB) faces even more constraints than the
development of therapeutic agents for other diseases. This is due, in part, to intrinsic …

Pathology of tuberculosis: how the pathology of human tuberculosis informs and directs animal models

RJ Basaraba, RL Hunter - Tuberculosis and the Tubercle …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Progress toward developing new strategies to control the spread of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis is limited by a poor understanding of the basic pathogenesis of post‐primary …