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Abstract
New effective drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) are necessary for two main reasons: firstly, it would be desirable to reduce the duration of TB treatment from 6 to 4 months and secondly, new drugs are urgently needed for the treatment of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. For the first time since 1960 the two new drugs bedaquiline and delamanid were approved and licensed in 2014 for the treatment of multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis; however, efforts to reduce the duration of treatment to 4 months using fluoroquinolones have not been successful. Further new drugs are currently in phase 2 and phase 3 studies; therefore, new treatment options can be expected within the next few years.Entities:
Keywords: Bedaquiline; Delamanid; Fluoroquinolones; PA-824; Tuberculosis, multidrug resistant
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26787496 DOI: 10.1007/s00108-015-0011-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Internist (Berl) ISSN: 0020-9554 Impact factor: 0.743