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TB R&D Weekly Update: ICAAC and TB Drug Clinical Workshop
On September 16, the 4th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of Tuberculosis Drugs was held adjacent to the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) which was held from September 17 to 19. Between the two meetings, there were many updates related to TB drug development. Additional links to TB R&D are included.
TB R&D Weekly Update: Zinc Used by Host to Fight TB
This week, we provide an brief overview of research supported by CNRS, INSERM, Institut Pasteur and other donors providing new evidence of the role of Zinc in the body’s immune response to intracellular infection by M.tb. and the microbe’s strategy to subvert this defense. Additional links to TB R&D news are included.
TB R&D Weekly Update: TB Drug Updates in Future Medicinal Chemistry
Last week we posted information about two special issues of Future Medicinal Chemistry focused on neglected diseases. Future Medicinal Chemistry (September 2011, Volume 3, Number 11) have a few articles on tuberculosis drug development. Additional links to TB R&D news are included.
TB R&D Weekly Update: Future Medicinal Chemistry Features Neglected Diseases
The August and September issues of Future Medicinal Chemistry will focus on neglected diseases including tuberculosis. The issue includes articles from TB researchers including Ann Ginsberg and Takushi Kaneko. Additional links to TB R&D news are included
TB R&D Weekly Update: New Target Identified for Pyrazinamide
This week we highlight an article published out of Ying Zhang’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University that puts forth a new model for the mode of action of pyrazinamide (PZA) and as well as suggest trans-translation as a potential target to consider in the development of new drugs for TB. Additional links to TB R&D news are included.
Posted in Regulations and Guidelines, TB Prevention and Control Strategies, TB Treatment
Updated WHO guidelines on Drug-Resistant TB
The WHO issued updated guidelines on the programmatic management of drug-resistant TB on August 4, 2011 online in the European Respiratory Journal.
TB R&D Weekly Update: Some Multidrug-resistant Bacteria More Fit
This week we have an article by researchers from Portugal that suggests that in the case of resistance conferred by plasmids that in some cases resistant bacteria increases its ability to replicate and overall fitness compared to susceptible bacteria. This may complicate research and control efforts to address the rising problem of multi-drug resistance. Additional links to TB R&D News are included.
Posted in Early Drug Development, Front Lines of TB R&D, TB Drug Development, Uncategorized
TB R&D Weekly Update: Novel Compounds Screened for DS and MDR-TB
This week’s featured article from Bill Jacob’s lab looks at novel InhA (target of isoniazid (INH), a first-line TB drug) inhibitors and their ability to kill M. tuberculosis (M.tb) that is drug-sensitive, resistant and in dormant stage. Two compounds were identified that had significant bactericidal activity against M.tb: CD 39 and CD117. Additional links to TB R&D News are included.
TB R&D Weekly Update: P27-P55 Operon of Mtb and Drug Resistance
his week, we present an article from researchers from the Instituto de Biotecnologia and TB Control Program in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The article focuses on the P27-P55 operon which has been shown in mice to be essential for M. tuberculosis (M. tb) to survive in the host. Additional links to TB R&D news are included.
TB R&D Weekly Update: Early bactericidal activity of OPC-67683
This week, we review a recent article published in the July issue of IJTLD on the TB drug candidate OPC-67683 whose new generic name is delamanid. Diacon, et al., present data showing that delamanid is safe, well-tolerated with significant early bactericidal activity. Links to additional TB R&D news is included.
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Toppix TB News- Editorial: Lives at risk if the U.S. shortchanges Global Fund 4 Feb 2012
- Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Update 3 Feb 2012
- Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Update 3 Feb 2012
- WHO says TB in Russia displays highest known drug resistance 3 Feb 2012
- Media outlets examine Global Fund's future as it enters second decade 3 Feb 2012
