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 …

Incipient and subclinical tuberculosis: a clinical review of early stages and progression of infection

PK Drain, KL Bajema, D Dowdy, K Dheda… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide, due in part to a
limited understanding of its clinical pathogenic spectrum of infection and disease …

Heterogeneity in tuberculosis

AM Cadena, SM Fortune, JAL Flynn - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2017 - nature.com
Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), results
in a range of clinical presentations in humans. Most infections manifest as a clinically …

Drug resistant tuberculosis: Implications for transmission, diagnosis, and disease management

D Liebenberg, BG Gordhan, BD Kana - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Drug resistant tuberculosis contributes significantly to the global burden of antimicrobial
resistance, often consuming a large proportion of the healthcare budget and associated …

Metabolic principles of persistence and pathogenicity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Ehrt, D Schnappinger, KY Rhee - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Metabolism was once relegated to the supply of energy and biosynthetic precursors, but it
has now become clear that it is a specific mediator of nearly all physiological processes. In …

Biology of antimicrobial resistance and approaches to combat it

SM Schrader, J Vaubourgeix, C Nathan - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Insufficient development of new antibiotics and the rising resistance of bacteria to those that
we have are putting the world at risk of losing the most widely curative class of medicines …

Drivers of tuberculosis transmission

B Mathema, JR Andrews, T Cohen… - The Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Measuring tuberculosis transmission is exceedingly difficult, given the remarkable variability
in the timing of clinical disease after Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; incident disease …

Tuberculosis treatment monitoring and outcome measures: new interest and new strategies

J Heyckendorf, SB Georghiou, N Frahm… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite the advent of new diagnostics, drugs and regimens, tuberculosis (TB) remains a
global public health threat. A significant challenge for TB control efforts has been the …

Update on tuberculosis biomarkers: from correlates of risk, to correlates of active disease and of cure from disease

D Goletti, MR Lee, JY Wang, N Walter… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a devastating disease, yet despite its enormous toll on global
health, tools to control TB are insufficient and often outdated. TB Biomarkers (TB‐BM) would …

[HTML][HTML] Is cough really necessary for TB transmission?

B Patterson, R Wood - Tuberculosis, 2019 - Elsevier
Cough has long been implicated in the production of infectious aerosol leading to
transmission of tuberculosis (TB). However, prevalence studies frequently identify …