Virulence factors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

MA Forrellad, LI Klepp, A Gioffré, J Sabio y Garcia… - Virulence, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) consists of closely related species that
cause tuberculosis in both humans and animals. This illness, still today, remains to be one of …

Molecular basis and mechanisms of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: classical and new drugs

PE Almeida Da Silva… - Journal of antimicrobial …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading public health problems worldwide. Declared
as a global emergency in 1993 by the WHO, its control is hampered by the emergence of …

Resistance to Isoniazid and Ethionamide in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Genes, Mutations, and Causalities

C Vilchèze, WR Jacobs Jr - Molecular genetics of Mycobacteria, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) chemotherapy started in the 1930s with the discovery by Domagk and
colleagues of the anti‐TB activity of sulfonamides. Since these compounds were very toxic …

Methodological and clinical aspects of the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacteria

T Jagielski, A Minias, J van Ingen… - Clinical microbiology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular typing has revolutionized epidemiological studies of infectious diseases,
including those of a mycobacterial etiology. With the advent of fingerprinting techniques …

The mechanism of isoniazid killing: clarity through the scope of genetics

C Vilchèze, WR Jacobs, Jr - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Isoniazid (INH) is one of the most efficient drugs for the treatment of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis infections. Despite its rather simple chemical structure, the mechanism by which …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

S Ahmad, E Mokaddas - Respiratory medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major infectious disease killing nearly two million people, mostly in
developing countries, every year. The increasing incidence of resistance of Mycobacterium …

Phylogeography and transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis spanning prisons and surrounding communities in Paraguay

GE Sanabria, G Sequera, S Aguirre, J Méndez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent rises in incident tuberculosis (TB) cases in Paraguay and the increasing
concentration of TB within prisons highlight the urgency of targeting strategies to interrupt …

Isoniazid bactericidal activity and resistance emergence: integrating pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics to predict efficacy in different ethnic populations

T Gumbo, A Louie, W Liu, D Brown… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Isoniazid, administered as part of combination antituberculosis therapy, is responsible for
most of the early bactericidal activity (EBA) of the regimen. However, the emergence of …

Mutations Prevalent among Rifampin- and Isoniazid-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from a Hospital in Vietnam

M Caws, PM Duy, DQ Tho, NTN Lan… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Vietnam is ranked 13th among the WHO list of 22 high-burden countries, based upon
estimated total number of tuberculosis cases. Despite having a model national tuberculosis …

Novel 4-aminoquinolines: Synthesis, inhibition of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase, antitubercular activity, SAR, and preclinical …

JD Paz, ND de Moura Sperotto, AS Ramos… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein a series of 4-aminoquinolines were synthesized in an attempt to optimize and study
the structural features related to LABIO-17 biological activity, a Mycobacterium tuberculosis …