| Literature DB >> 23183441 |
Rahul Kumar Verma1, Willem A Germishuizen, M Portia Motheo, Atul Kumar Agrawal, Amit Kumar Singh, Mradul Mohan, Pushpa Gupta, Umesh Datta Gupta, Moloko Cholo, Ronald Anderson, P Bernard Fourie, Amit Misra.
Abstract
Inhalable clofazimine-containing dry powder microparticles (CFM-DPI) and native clofazimine (CFM) were evaluated for activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human monocyte-derived macrophage cultures and in mice infected with a low-dose aerosol. Both formulations resulted in 99% killing at 2.5 μg/ml in vitro. In mice, 480 μg and 720 μg CFM-DPI inhaled twice per week over 4 weeks reduced numbers of CFU in the lung by as much as log(10) 2.6; 500 μg oral CFM achieved a log(10) 0.7 reduction.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23183441 PMCID: PMC3553724 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01897-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191