MDR tuberculosis treatment

J Espinosa-Pereiro, A Sánchez-Montalvá, ML Aznar… - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB), resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, continues
to be one of the most important threats to controlling the TB epidemic. Over the last few …

Linezolid in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: the challenge of its narrow therapeutic index

S Wasserman, G Meintjes… - Expert review of anti …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Linezolid is an oxazolidinone with potent activity against M tuberculosis, and
improves culture conversion and cure rates when added to treatment regimens for drug …

Therapeutic drug monitoring may improve safety outcomes of long-term treatment with linezolid in adult patients

F Pea, P Viale, P Cojutti, B Del Pin… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Prolonged treatment with linezolid may cause toxicity. The purpose of this study
was to define pharmacodynamic thresholds for improving safety outcomes of linezolid …

[PDF][PDF] Guía de tratamiento antimicrobiano de la infección por Staphylococcus aureus

P Llinares, J Barberán, M Montejo, M Salavert… - Rev Esp …, 2013 - researchgate.net
La creciente tasa de resistencia de Staphylococcus aureus a meticilina (SARM) observada
en la década de los años 90, generó importantes lineas de estudio de nuevos antibióticos …

Drug–drug interactions and safety of linezolid, tedizolid, and other oxazolidinones

A Douros, K Grabowski… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Oxazolidinones are synthetic antimicrobials with strong bacteriostatic activity
against Gram-positive organisms. Recently, tedizolid phosphate was approved for clinical …

Clarithromycin increases linezolid exposure in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients

MS Bolhuis, R van Altena… - European …, 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The use of linezolid for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is limited by dose-
and time-dependent toxicity. Recently, we reported a case of pharmacokinetic drug–drug …

Dried blood spot analysis for therapeutic drug monitoring of linezolid in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

DH Vu, MS Bolhuis, RA Koster… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Linezolid is a promising antimicrobial agent for the treatment of multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis (MDR-TB), but its use is limited by toxicity. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) …

Pharmacokinetic drug interactions of antimicrobial drugs: a systematic review on oxazolidinones, rifamycines, macrolides, fluoroquinolones, and beta-lactams

MS Bolhuis, PN Panday, AD Pranger, JGW Kosterink… - Pharmaceutics, 2011 - mdpi.com
Like any other drug, antimicrobial drugs are prone to pharmacokinetic drug interactions.
These drug interactions are a major concern in clinical practice as they may have an effect …

Simple strategy to assess linezolid exposure in patients with multi-drug-resistant and extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis

J Kamp, MS Bolhuis, S Tiberi, OW Akkerman… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Linezolid is used increasingly for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) and extensively-
drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). However, linezolid can cause severe adverse …

[HTML][HTML] Does the conventional dosage of linezolid necessitate therapeutic drug monitoring?—Experience from a prospective observational study

J Fang, C Chen, Y Wu, M Zhang, Y Zhang… - Annals of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The objectives of the present prospective observational study conducted in
patients receiving conventional dosage of linezolid was to define the pharmacodynamic …