| Literature DB >> 29089593 |
Masayuki Igarashi1, Yoshimasa Ishizaki1, Yoshiaki Takahashi1.
Abstract
Tuberculosis is one of the most common and challenging infectious diseases worldwide. Especially, the lack of effective chemotherapeutic drugs for tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus co-infection and prevalence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis remain to be serious clinical problems. Development of new drugs is a potential solution to fight tuberculosis. In this decade, the development status of new antituberculous drugs has been greatly advanced by the leading role of international organizations such as the Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development, Stop Tuberculosis Partnership and Global Health Innovative Technology Fund. In this review, we introduce the development status of new drugs for tuberculosis, focusing on those derived from natural products.The Journal of Antibiotics advance online publication, 1 November 2017; doi:10.1038/ja.2017.126.Entities:
Year: 2017 PMID: 29089593 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2017.126
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Antibiot (Tokyo) ISSN: 0021-8820 Impact factor: 2.649