Tuberculosis pharmacotherapy: strategies to optimize patient care.
Tuberculosis pharmacotherapy: strategies to optimize patient care.
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结核病药物治疗:优化患者护理的策略。
DOI:
10.1517/14656560802694564
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发表时间:
2009-02
影响因子:
3.2
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The treatment of tuberculosis (TB) is a mature discipline, with over 60 years of clinical experience accrued across the globe. The requisite multidrug treatment of drug-susceptible TB, however, lasts six months and has never been optimized according to current standards. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and tuberculosis in individuals coinfected with HIV present additional treatment challenges. This article reviews the role that existing drugs and new compounds could have in shortening or improving treatment for tuberculosis. The key to treatment shortening appears to be sterilizing activity, or the ability of drugs to kill mycobacteria that persist after the initial days of multidrug treatment. Among existing anti-TB drugs, the rifamycins hold the greatest potential for shortening treatment and improving outcomes, in both HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected populations, without dramatic increases in toxicity. Clinical studies underway or being planned, are supported by in vitro, animal, and human evidence of increased sterilizing activity–without significant increases in toxicity–at elevated daily doses. Fluoroquinolones also appear to have significant sterilizing activity. At least two class members are currently under evaluation for treatment shortening with different combinations of first-line drugs. However, in light of apparent rapid selection for fluoroquinolone-resistant mutants, relative frequency of serious adverse events, and a perceived need to ‘reserve’ fluoroquinolones for the treatment of drug-resistant TB, their exact role in TB treatment remains to be determined. Other possible improvements may come from inhaled delivery or split dosing (linezolid) of anti-TB drugs for which toxicity (ethionamide) or lack of absorption (aminoglycosides and polypeptides) precludes delivery of maximally effective, oral doses, once daily. New classes of drugs with novel mechanisms of action, nitroimidazopyrans and a diarylquinoline, among others, may soon provide opportunities for improving treatment of drug-resistant TB and/or shortening treatment of drug-susceptible TB. More potential options for improved TB treatment currently exist than at any other time in the last 30 years. The challenge in TB pharmacotherapy is to devise well-tolerated, efficacious, short-duration regimens that can be used successfully against drug-resistant and drug-resistant TB in a heterogeneous population of patients.
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影响因子:
11.5
作者:
Berning, SE
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Berning, SE
影响因子:
7.3
作者:
Biava, Mariangela;Cesare Porretta, Giulio;Botta, Maurizio
通讯作者:
Botta, Maurizio
DOI:
10.1016/s1472-9792(08)70018-0
发表时间:
2008-03-01
期刊:
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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影响因子:
56.9
作者:
Andries, K;Verhasselt, P;Jarlier, V
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Jarlier, V
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Antal, EJ;Hendershot, PE;Donaldson, KM
通讯作者:
Donaldson, KM