"Tuberculosis drugs" refers to medications specifically designed to treat tuberculosis, a highly contagious bacterial infection that mainly affects the lungs. These drugs are used to kill the bacteria causing the disease and help the patient recover from tuberculosis.
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Studies in mice and in tissue cultures suggest that giving vitamin C
with tuberculosis drugs could reduce the unusually long time it takes these drugs to eradicate this pathogen.
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new tuberculosis drugs are in the final stages of development, and could also help to replace those being rendered less useful through resistance, he adds.
«Structure
of tuberculosis drug target determined: New class of potential anti-tuberculosis drugs discovered.»
La Montagne chaired the World Health Organization Task Force on Strategic Planning for the Children's Vaccine Initiative, advised the Pan American Health Organization on programs for vaccine - research implementation, and served as a member of the board for the Global Alliance
for Tuberculosis Drug Development.
The research team also found that two
major tuberculosis drugs, isoniazid and rifampin, were counterproductive when combined with other drugs.
They quickly narrowed combinations of 14
different tuberculosis drugs with five different doses — resulting in 6 billion possibilities — into several promising combination treatments that kill the bacteria that cause tuberculosis much faster than the standard regimen used to treat tuberculosis.
There are two forms of drug - resistant tuberculosis important to public health — multidrug - resistant tuberculosis is resistant to more than one of the first - line drugs for the disease, whereas extensively drug - resistant tuberculosis is additionally resistant to fluoroquinolones and at least one of the second - line
injectable tuberculosis drugs.
Most recently she was a Scientist at Open Source Drug Discovery, a unit of the Indian Government, dedicated to developing and strengthening the contributions of Indian institutes to the
entire tuberculosis drug discovery pipeline.
Washington, DC — January 3, 2018 — Studies in mice and in tissue cultures suggest that giving vitamin C
with tuberculosis drugs could reduce the unusually long time it takes these drugs to eradicate this pathogen.
Advances made there include the benzodiazepines Valium and Librium, which heralded the advent of pharmaceutical psychiatry, and
the tuberculosis drug isoniazid.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria have grown increasingly resistant to
tuberculosis drugs.
It takes well over ten years for a new
tuberculosis drug to complete these trials and be approved for human use.