| Literature DB >> 27270287 |
Alice L den Hertog1, Sandra Menting2, Richard Pfeltz3, Matthew Warns3, Salman H Siddiqi3, Richard M Anthony1.
Abstract
For the past decades, an acidic pH has been used to render Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptible to pyrazinamide for in vitro testing. Here, we show that at the standard breakpoint concentration and reduced culture temperatures, pyrazinamide (PZA) is active against tuberculosis (TB) at neutral pH. This finding should help unravel the mechanism of action of PZA and allow drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods to be optimized.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27270287 PMCID: PMC4958174 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00654-16
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191