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 …

Strategies to combat multi-drug resistance in tuberculosis

V Singh, K Chibale - Accounts of chemical research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus “Drug resistance is an unavoidable consequence of the use of drugs; however,
the emergence of multi-drug resistance can be managed by accurate diagnosis and tailor …

Biology of antimicrobial resistance and approaches to combat it

SM Schrader, J Vaubourgeix, C Nathan - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Insufficient development of new antibiotics and the rising resistance of bacteria to those that
we have are putting the world at risk of losing the most widely curative class of medicines …

Implications of COVID-19 in high burden countries for HIV/TB: A systematic review of evidence

JL Tamuzi, BT Ayele, CS Shumba… - BMC infectious …, 2020 - Springer
Background The triple burden of COVID-19, tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency
virus is one of the major global health challenges of the twenty-first century. In high burden …

Optimizing hydroxychloroquine dosing for patients with COVID‐19: an integrative modeling approach for effective drug repurposing

M Garcia‐Cremades, BP Solans… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a promising candidate for Coronavirus disease of 2019
(COVID‐19) treatment. The optimal dosing of HCQ is unknown. Our goal was to integrate …

The treatment of tuberculosis

CA Peloquin, GR Davies - Clinical Pharmacology & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of infectious death worldwide, and poverty is a
major driver. Clinically, TB presents as “latent” TB and active TB disease, and the treatment …

Emergence of bedaquiline resistance in a high tuberculosis burden country

E Chesov, D Chesov, FP Maurer… - European …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Rationale Bedaquiline has been classified as a group A drug for the treatment of multidrug-
resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) by the World Health Organization; however, globally …

CinA mediates multidrug tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

KM Kreutzfeldt, RS Jansen, TE Hartman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) to resist and tolerate antibiotics complicates
the development of improved tuberculosis (TB) chemotherapies. Here we define the Mtb …

Population pharmacokinetics and Bayesian dose adjustment to advance TDM of anti-TB drugs

MGG Sturkenboom, AG Märtson, EM Svensson… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Tuberculosis (TB) is still the number one cause of death due to an infectious disease.
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-TB drugs are key in the optimization of TB …

Tuberculosis treatment failure associated with evolution of antibiotic resilience

Q Liu, J Zhu, CL Dulberger, S Stanley, S Wilson… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The widespread use of antibiotics has placed bacterial pathogens under intense pressure to
evolve new survival mechanisms. Genomic analysis of 51,229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis …