Anti-tuberculosis treatment strategies and drug development: challenges and priorities

VA Dartois, EJ Rubin - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Despite two decades of intensified research to understand and cure tuberculosis disease,
biological uncertainties remain and hamper progress. However, owing to collaborative …

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: a persistent global health concern

M Farhat, H Cox, M Ghanem, CM Denkinger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to cause 13% of all antimicrobial resistance-
attributable deaths worldwide and is driven by both ongoing resistance acquisition and …

A 24-week, all-oral regimen for rifampin-resistant tuberculosis

BT Nyang'wa, C Berry, E Kazounis… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In patients with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis, all-oral treatment regimens that
are more effective, shorter, and have a more acceptable side-effect profile than current …

Bedaquiline–pretomanid–linezolid regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis

F Conradie, TR Bagdasaryan, S Borisov… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The bedaquiline–pretomanid–linezolid regimen has been reported to have
90% efficacy against highly drug-resistant tuberculosis, but the incidence of adverse events …

[KIRJA][B] WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 4: treatment-drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment, 2022 update

World Health Organization - 2022 - books.google.com
The WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Tuberculosis (TB), Module 4: Treatment-Drug-
Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment 2022 update informs health care professionals in Member …

Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

KC Rahlwes, BRS Dias, PC Campos… - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of tuberculosis, an infectious
disease with one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Leveraging its …

Therapeutic developments for tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease

V Dartois, T Dick - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) drug discovery and development has undergone nothing short of a
revolution over the past 20 years. Successful public–private partnerships and sustained …

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 …

World Health Organization recommendations on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis, 2020 update

F Mirzayev, K Viney, NN Linh… - European …, 2021 - publications.ersnet.org
Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health problem globally. Likewise, forms of
tuberculosis (TB) resistant to first-and second-line TB medicines present a major challenge …

Evaluation of two short standardised regimens for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM stage 2): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, non …

RL Goodall, SK Meredith, AJ Nunn, A Bayissa… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The STREAM stage 1 trial showed that a 9-month regimen for the treatment of
rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis was non-inferior to the 20-month 2011 WHO-recommended …