| Literature DB >> 25331694 |
Shashank Gupta1, Sandeep Tyagi2, William R Bishai3.
Abstract
Bedaquiline is a newly approved drug for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, but there are concerns about its safety in humans. We found that the coadministration of verapamil with subinhibitory doses of bedaquiline gave the same bactericidal effect in mice as did the full human bioequivalent bedaquiline dosing. Adding verapamil to bedaquiline monotherapy also protected against the development of resistant mutants in vivo. The adjunctive use of verapamil may permit use of lower doses of bedaquiline to be used and thereby reduce its dose-related toxicities in tuberculosis patients.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25331694 PMCID: PMC4291418 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.04019-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191