Anti-tuberculosis treatment strategies and drug development: challenges and priorities

VA Dartois, EJ Rubin - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Despite two decades of intensified research to understand and cure tuberculosis disease,
biological uncertainties remain and hamper progress. However, owing to collaborative …

The physiology and genetics of bacterial responses to antibiotic combinations

R Roemhild, T Bollenbach, DI Andersson - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Several promising strategies based on combining or cycling different antibiotics have been
proposed to increase efficacy and counteract resistance evolution, but we still lack a deep …

Advancement in leishmaniasis diagnosis and therapeutics: An update

D Kumari, S Perveen, R Sharma, K Singh - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is regarded as a neglected tropical disease by World Health Organization
(WHO) and is ranked next to malaria as the deadliest protozoan disease. The primary …

Types and functions of heterogeneity in mycobacteria

ES Chung, WC Johnson, BB Aldridge - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The remarkable ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to survive attacks from the host
immune response and drug treatment is due to the resilience of a few bacilli rather than a …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the mechanisms of intrinsic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

NC Poulton, JM Rock - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is among the most difficult infections to treat, requiring several months of
multidrug therapy to produce a durable cure. The reasons necessitating long treatment times …

A novel tool to identify bactericidal compounds against vulnerable targets in drug-tolerant M. tuberculosis found in caseum

JP Sarathy, M Xie, RM Jones, A Chang, P Osiecki… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Caseous necrosis is a hallmark of tuberculosis (TB) pathology and creates a niche for drug-
tolerant persisters within the host. Cavitary TB and high bacterial burden in caseum require …

An RNA-Based Vaccine Platform for Use against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

SE Larsen, JH Erasmus, VA Reese, T Pecor, J Archer… - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), a bacterial pathogen that causes tuberculosis disease
(TB), exerts an extensive burden on global health. The complex nature of M. tb, coupled with …

[PDF][PDF] Design principles to assemble drug combinations for effective tuberculosis therapy using interpretable pairwise drug response measurements

J Larkins-Ford, YN Degefu, N Van, A Sokolov… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
A challenge in tuberculosis treatment regimen design is the necessity to combine three or
more antibiotics. We narrow the prohibitively large search space by breaking down high …

Advances in the design of combination therapies for the treatment of tuberculosis

J Larkins-Ford, BB Aldridge - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Tuberculosis requires lengthy multi-drug therapy. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
occupies different tissue compartments during infection, making drug access and …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal perspectives on tuberculosis chemotherapy

J Zhu, YJ Liu, SM Fortune - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), accounts for
over ten million infections and over 1.5 million deaths every year [1]. Upon infection, the …