Tuberculosis: pathogenesis, current treatment regimens and new drug targets

SSR Alsayed, H Gunosewoyo - International journal of molecular …, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the causative agent of TB, is a recalcitrant pathogen that
is rife around the world, latently infecting approximately a quarter of the worldwide …

Antibiotics in the clinical pipeline as of December 2022

MS Butler, IR Henderson, RJ Capon… - The Journal of …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The need for new antibacterial drugs to treat the increasing global prevalence of drug-
resistant bacterial infections has clearly attracted global attention, with a range of existing …

Analysis of the clinical pipeline of treatments for drug-resistant bacterial infections: despite progress, more action is needed

MS Butler, V Gigante, H Sati, S Paulin… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2022‏ - journals.asm.org
There is an urgent global need for new strategies and drugs to control and treat multidrug-
resistant bacterial infections. In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a list of …

Genome-wide gene expression tuning reveals diverse vulnerabilities of M. tuberculosis

B Bosch, MA DeJesus, NC Poulton, W Zhang… - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Antibacterial agents target the products of essential genes but rarely achieve complete
target inhibition. Thus, the all-or-none definition of essentiality afforded by traditional genetic …

Tuberculosis drug discovery: challenges and new horizons

GFS Fernandes, AM Thompson… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Over the past 2000 years, tuberculosis (TB) has claimed more lives than any other infectious
disease. In 2020 alone, TB was responsible for 1.5 million deaths worldwide, comparable to …

Antibiotics in the clinical pipeline in October 2019

MS Butler, DL Paterson - The Journal of antibiotics, 2020‏ - nature.com
The development of new and effective antibacterial drugs to treat multi-drug resistant (MDR)
bacteria, especially Gram-negative (G− ve) pathogens, is acknowledged as one of the …

Strategies to combat multi-drug resistance in tuberculosis

V Singh, K Chibale - Accounts of chemical research, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus “Drug resistance is an unavoidable consequence of the use of drugs; however,
the emergence of multi-drug resistance can be managed by accurate diagnosis and tailor …

Antibacterial drug discovery in the resistance era

ED Brown, GD Wright - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
The looming antibiotic-resistance crisis has penetrated the consciousness of clinicians,
researchers, policymakers, politicians and the public at large. The evolution and widespread …

Inhibition of M. tuberculosis and human ATP synthase by BDQ and TBAJ-587

Y Zhang, Y Lai, S Zhou, T Ran, Y Zhang, Z Zhao… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Bedaquiline (BDQ), a first-in-class diarylquinoline anti-tuberculosis drug, and its
analogue, TBAJ-587, prevent the growth and proliferation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by …

Hit and lead criteria in drug discovery for infectious diseases of the develo** world

K Katsuno, JN Burrows, K Duncan… - Nature Reviews drug …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Reducing the burden of infectious diseases that affect people in the develo** world
requires sustained collaborative drug discovery efforts. The quality of the chemical starting …