[HTML][HTML] Pharmacometrics in tuberculosis: progress and opportunities

JJ Wilkins, EM Svensson, JP Ernest, RM Savic… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of death by a communicable agent,
infecting up to one-quarter of the world's population, predominantly in disadvantaged …

Model-informed drug discovery and development strategy for the rapid development of anti-tuberculosis drug combinations

RC Van Wijk, R Ayoun Alsoud, H Lennernäs… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Model-informed drug discovery and development (MID3) is proposed
to be applied throughout the preclinical to clinical phases to provide an informative …

Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic modelling of intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth and kill rates is predictive of clinical treatment duration

G Aljayyoussi, VA Jenkins, R Sharma, A Ardrey… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment is long and complex, typically involving a combination of drugs
taken for 6 months. Improved drug regimens to shorten and simplify treatment are urgently …

Evaluation of pharmacokinetic‐pharmacodynamic relationships and selection of drug combinations for tuberculosis

M Muliaditan, O Della Pasqua - British Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Despite evidence of the efficacy of anti‐tubercular drug regimens in clinical practice,
the rationale underpinning the selection of doses and companion drugs for combination …

Mimicking in-vivo exposures to drug combinations in-vitro: anti-tuberculosis drugs in lung lesions and the hollow fiber model of infection

F Kloprogge, R Hammond, K Kipper, SH Gillespie… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Here, we evaluate protocol requirements to mimic therapeutically relevant drug
concentrations at the site of infection (ie lung lesion) in an in-vitro hollow fibre model of …

Bacterial growth dynamics and pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic relationships of rifampicin and bedaquiline in BALB/c mice

M Muliaditan, O Della Pasqua - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose Translational efforts in the evaluation of novel anti‐tubercular
drugs demand better integration of pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic data arising from …

Early drug development and evaluation of putative antitubercular compounds in the-omics era

A Minias, L Żukowska, E Lechowicz, F Gąsior… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. According to the WHO, the disease is one of the top 10 causes of death of …

PlatformTM, a standards-based data custodianship platform for translational medicine research

I Emam, V Elyasigomari, A Matthews, S Pavlidis… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Biomedical informatics has traditionally adopted a linear view of the informatics process
(collect, store and analyse) in translational medicine (TM) studies; focusing primarily on the …

How long will treatment guidelines for TB continue to overlook variability in drug exposure?

M Muliaditan, O Della Pasqua - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Despite wide clinical acceptance, the use of weight-banded dosing regimens
for the treatment of TB in adults has been defined on an empirical basis. The potential …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of lung exposure to anti-tubercular drugs using plasma pharmacokinetic data: implications for dose selection

M Muliaditan, D Teutonico, F Ortega-Muro… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of novel candidate molecules for tuberculosis remains challenging, as
drug distribution into the target tissue is not fully characterised in preclinical models of …