Tuberculosis continues to be a great source of concern in global health because of the large reservoir of humans infected with the bacilli and the appearance of clinical isolates resistant to a wide array of anti-tuberculosis drugs. New drugs with novel mechanisms of action on new targets are urgently required to reduce global tuberculosis burden. Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid associated ...

The World Health Organization identifies tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as a leading infectious killer. Although conventional treatments for TB exist, they come with challenges such heavy pill regimen, prolonged treatment duration, and strict schedule, to multidrug-resistant (MDR) extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains. rise of MDR strains endangers future control. D...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis has been one of the common diseases of human communities. Besides of disease-related complications, there are serious adverse reactions due to Anti-tuberculosis (Anti-TB) drug therapy. OBJECTIVES To assess the rate of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) induced by Anti-TB drugs in the infectious disease department for a period of one year. To detect serious and preventable r...

Tuberculosis (TB) still becomes a significant health problem in Indonesia. The first-line anti-tuberculosis drug (ATD) is the most effective TB drug, but it can have some side effects. One of them allergic skin reactions that affect patient's compliance. Allergic due to ATD are found 4-6% cases and third frequent effect after gastrointestinal liver function disorder. All cause reactions. be mil...

Poly-(dl-lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) nanoparticles were prepared by a double emulsion solvent evaporation spray-drying technique and coated with polyethylene glycol (PEG 1% v/v). The PLGA nanoparticles had a small size (229±7.6 to 382±23.9nm), uniform size distribution and positive zeta potential (+12.45±4.53mV). In vitro/in vivo assays were performed to evaluate the pharmacokinetic (PK) an...

Objective: Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) may be an undiagnosed cause of childhood mortality or neurologic sequelae. Cranial computed tomography (CT) scan remains a relevant diagnostic and prognostic tool amidst negative cerebrospinal fluid sputum findings for tuberculous diagnosis. Delays in diagnosis treatment increase morbidity resource-constraint countries.
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The recent increase in the incidence of tuberculosis with the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) cases has lead to the search for new drugs that are effective against MDR strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and can augment the potential of existing drugs against tuberculosis. In the present study, we investigated the activities of a naphthoquinone, 7-methyljuglone, isolated from the roots...

background and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) is a major problem in the world. treatment and control of tb needs detection of the mycobacterium tuberculosis (mt) in the proper samples. while smear doesn’t have enough sensitivity, culture and pcr are expensive, time consuming and unavailable in many centers. recent development of a rapid tb antigen detection test (prtbk) at pasteur institute of i...