| Literature DB >> 33046495 |
Harindra D Sathkumara1, Karyna Hansen1, Socorro Miranda-Hernandez1, Brenda Govan1,2, Catherine M Rush1,2, Lars Henning2, Natkunam Ketheesan3, Andreas Kupz4.
Abstract
Comorbid type 2 diabetes poses a great challenge to the global control of tuberculosis. Here, we assessed the efficacy of metformin (MET), an antidiabetic drug, in mice infected with a very low dose of Mycobacterium tuberculosis In contrast to diabetic mice, infected nondiabetic mice that received the same therapeutic concentration of MET presented with significantly higher disease burden. This warrants further studies to investigate the disparate efficacy of MET against tuberculosis in diabetic and nondiabetic individuals.Entities:
Keywords: diabetes; host-directed therapy; metformin; tuberculosis
Year: 2020 PMID: 33046495 PMCID: PMC7927854 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01422-20
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191