The Johns Hopkins investigators caution, however, that the short - term treatment's impact is dependent on several assumptions, including that no more than 10 percent of possible patients are excluded from treatment by
additional drug resistance and that using the new regimen actually increases the number of MDR - TB patients treated.
Not exact matches
The researchers also plan to use this technology to study
drug resistance and are developing
additional platforms to guide decision making in the clinic.
Marcus stresses that SaGA can be applied to
additional cell types or environments, or other types of cancer cell behavior such as
drug resistance.
Additional uses include precise diagnosis of microbial infection, describing transmission patterns, understanding the genomics of emerging
drug resistance and identifying targets for new therapeutics and vaccines.
Additional goals of the platform include determining biologically relevant doses, identifying biomarkers of sensitivity and
resistance, and characterizing adaptive responses as we pursue the potential of combining
drug targets.