Food for thought: addressing undernutrition to end tuberculosis

P Sinha, K Lönnroth, A Bhargava… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of deaths from an infectious disease worldwide. WHO's
End TB Strategy is falling short of several 2020 targets. Undernutrition is the leading …

New old challenges in tuberculosis: potentially effective nanotechnologies in drug delivery

A Sosnik, ÁM Carcaboso, RJ Glisoni… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2010 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most deadly infectious disease. Despite potentially curative
pharmacotherapies being available for over 50years, the length of the treatment and the pill …

Efficacy and safety of high-dose rifampin in pulmonary tuberculosis. A randomized controlled trial

GE Velásquez, MB Brooks, JM Coit… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: We examined whether increased rifampin doses could shorten standard therapy
for tuberculosis without increased toxicity. Objectives: To assess the differences across three …

Clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of rifampicin in human tuberculosis

AA Abulfathi, EH Decloedt, EM Svensson… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
The introduction of rifampicin (rifampin) into tuberculosis (TB) treatment five decades ago
was critical for shortening the treatment duration for patients with pulmonary TB to 6 months …

Microbiome-immune interactions in tuberculosis

G Mori, M Morrison, A Blumenthal - PLoS pathogens, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Tuberculosis (TB) remains an infectious disease of global significance and a leading cause
of death in low-and middle-income countries. Significant effort has been directed towards …

Rifampicin and rifapentine significantly reduce concentrations of bedaquiline, a new anti-TB drug

EM Svensson, S Murray, MO Karlsson… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Bedaquiline is the first drug of a new class approved for the treatment of TB in
decades. Bedaquiline is metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 to a less-active M2 …

Effects of Tuberculosis, Race, and Human Gene SLCO1B1 Polymorphisms on Rifampin Concentrations

M Weiner, C Peloquin, W Burman, CC Luo… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Rifampin has concentration-dependent activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
However, marked intersubject variation of rifampin concentrations occurs. In this study, we …

Pharmacokinetics of isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide in children younger than two years of age with tuberculosis: evidence for implementation of revised World …

S Thee, JA Seddon, PR Donald, HI Seifart… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued revised first-line
antituberculosis (anti-TB) drug dosage recommendations for children. No pharmacokinetic …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of undernutrition on sputum culture conversion and treatment outcomes among people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review …

F Wagnew, KA Alene, M Kelly, D Gray - International Journal of Infectious …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives We aimed to evaluate the effect of undernutrition on sputum culture conversion
and treatment outcomes among people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) …

[HTML][HTML] Tuberculosis of the gastrointestinal tract and associated viscera

T Malikowski, M Mahmood, T Smyrk, L Raffals… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis involvement of the gastrointestinal tract, peritoneum, and associated viscera is
an uncommon but well described entity. While peritoneal tuberculosis and tuberculous …