Cell wall: A versatile fountain of drug targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

ZS Bhat, MA Rather, M Maqbool, HUL Lah… - Biomedicine & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease responsible for an estimated one and a half
million human deaths each year around the globe. HIV-TB coinfection and rapid increase in …

Presence of multiple lesion types with vastly different microenvironments in C3HeB/FeJ mice following aerosol infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

SM Irwin, E Driver, E Lyon, C Schrupp… - Disease models & …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Cost-effective animal models that accurately reflect the pathological progression of
pulmonary tuberculosis are needed to screen and evaluate novel tuberculosis drugs and …

Comprehensive review on mechanism of action, resistance and evolution of antimycobacterial drugs

A Chauhan, M Kumar, A Kumar, K Kanchan - Life sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases existing in the world since ancient
times and still possesses serious threat across the globe. Each year the number of cases …

Drug resistance mechanisms and novel drug targets for tuberculosis therapy

MM Islam, HMA Hameed, J Mugweru… - Journal of genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) poses a significant challenge to the successful treatment
and control of TB worldwide. Resistance to anti-TB drugs has existed since the beginning of …

Safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of PA-824 in healthy subjects

AM Ginsberg, MW Laurenzi, DJ Rouse… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT PA-824 is a novel antibacterial agent that has shown in vitro activity against
both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The compound's MIC is …

Discovery of novel oral protein synthesis inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that target leucyl-tRNA synthetase

A Palencia, X Li, W Bu, W Choi, CZ Ding… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The recent development and spread of extensively drug-resistant and totally drug-resistant
resistant (TDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis highlight the need for new …

Preliminary structure–activity relationships and biological evaluation of novel antitubercular indolecarboxamide derivatives against drug-susceptible and drug …

OK Onajole, M Pieroni, SK Tipparaju… - Journal of medicinal …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide,
with approximately one-third of the world's population infected with latent TB. This is further …

Inhaled drug delivery for tuberculosis therapy

P Muttil, C Wang, AJ Hickey - Pharmaceutical research, 2009 - Springer
One third of the world population is infected with tuberculosis (TB), and new infections occur
at a rate of one per second. The recent increase in the emergence of drug-resistant strains of …

Advances in diagnostics and drug discovery against resistant and latent tuberculosis infection

C Shleider Carnero Canales, J Marquez Cazorla… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) represents a subclinical, asymptomatic mycobacterial
state affecting approximately 25% of the global population. The substantial prevalence of …

New anti-tuberculosis drugs in clinical trials with novel mechanisms of action

EC Rivers, RL Mancera - Drug Discovery Today, 2008 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is a major health problem worldwide, with approximately 1.7 million people
dying annually from the disease. The long current drug regimen, the emergence of drug …