Treatment of tuberculosis

CR Horsburgh Jr, CE Barry III… - New England Journal of …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
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The pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis

AG Davis, UK Rohlwink, A Proust… - Journal of leukocyte …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death globally. Dissemination of TB to the
brain results in the most severe form of extrapulmonary TB, tuberculous meningitis (TBM) …

High-dose rifampicin, moxifloxacin, and SQ109 for treating tuberculosis: a multi-arm, multi-stage randomised controlled trial

MJ Boeree, N Heinrich, R Aarnoutse… - The Lancet infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious disease killer. We aimed to
identify shorter, safer drug regimens for the treatment of tuberculosis. Methods We did a …

Intensified antituberculosis therapy in adults with tuberculous meningitis

AD Heemskerk, ND Bang, NTH Mai… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Tuberculous meningitis is often lethal. Early antituberculosis treatment and
adjunctive treatment with glucocorticoids improve survival, but nearly one third of patients …

[HTML][HTML] Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug-resistance testing: challenges, recent developments and perspectives

T Schön, P Miotto, CU Köser, M Viveiros… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Drug-resistance testing, or antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), is mandatory for
Mycobacterium tuberculosis in cases of failure on standard therapy. We reviewed the …

Recent advances in the treatment of tuberculosis

I Motta, M Boeree, D Chesov, K Dheda… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health challenge and one of the leading causes of
death worldwide. In the last decade, the TB treatment landscape has dramatically changed …

Tuberculosis treatment and management—an update on treatment regimens, trials, new drugs, and adjunct therapies

A Zumla, J Chakaya, R Centis, L D'Ambrosio… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
WHO estimates that 9 million people developed active tuberculosis in 2013 and 1· 5 million
people died from it. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) …

Population pharmacokinetics and Bayesian dose adjustment to advance TDM of anti-TB drugs

MGG Sturkenboom, AG Märtson, EM Svensson… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Tuberculosis (TB) is still the number one cause of death due to an infectious disease.
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-TB drugs are key in the optimization of TB …

Machine learning and pharmacometrics for prediction of pharmacokinetic data: differences, similarities and challenges illustrated with rifampicin

L Keutzer, H You, A Farnoud, J Nyberg, SG Wicha… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pharmacometrics (PM) and machine learning (ML) are both valuable for drug development
to characterize pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD). Pharmacokinetic …

Dynamic imaging in patients with tuberculosis reveals heterogeneous drug exposures in pulmonary lesions

AA Ordonez, H Wang, G Magombedze… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, requiring at
least 6 months of multidrug treatment to achieve cure. However, the lack of reliable data on …