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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] New agents for the treatment of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

DT Hoagland, J Liu, RB Lee, RE Lee - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Inadequate dosing and incomplete treatment regimens, coupled with the ability of the
tuberculosis bacilli to cause latent infections that are tolerant of currently used drugs, have …

Drug Resistance Mechanisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

JC Palomino, A Martin - Antibiotics, 2014 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious public health problem worldwide. Its situation is worsened by
the presence of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the …

Narrow-spectrum antibacterial agents

RJ Melander, DV Zurawski, C Melander - Medchemcomm, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
While broad spectrum antibiotics play an invaluable role in the treatment of bacterial
infections, there are some drawbacks to their use, namely selection for and spread of …

An overview of new antitubercular drugs, drug candidates, and their targets

A Bahuguna, DS Rawat - Medicinal research reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis and more recently
totally drug‐resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, display unique mechanisms to survive in the …

Cross-resistance between clofazimine and bedaquiline through upregulation of MmpL5 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

RC Hartkoorn, S Uplekar, ST Cole - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2014 - journals.asm.org
The antileprosy drug clofazimine is also of interest for the treatment of multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis. To understand possible resistance mechanisms, clofazimine-resistant …

Pyrimidine derivatives with antitubercular activity

V Finger, M Kufa, O Soukup, D Castagnolo… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Small molecules with antitubercular activity containing the pyrimidine motif in their structure
have gained more attention after three drugs, namely GSK 2556286 (GSK-286), TBA-7371 …

Mycobacterial cell wall biosynthesis: a multifaceted antibiotic target

KA Abrahams, GS Besra - Parasitology, 2018 - cambridge.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB), is recognized
as a global health emergency as promoted by the World Health Organization. Over 1 million …