Title:Current Approaches for New TB Drugs
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Author(s): Shilpika Pandey, Isha Soni, Neha Topno, Arunava Dasgupta and Sidharth Chopra
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Keywords:
Clinical strains, drugs, MIC, Mycobacterium, pre-clinical development, tuberculosis.
Abstract: Tuberculosis is essentially a curable disease but inspite of a WHO approved DOTS therapy, it still continues to ravage
mankind. This situation is exacerbated by long course of chemotherapy, increasing drug resistance and co-emergence with HIV.
The TB drug pipeline remained stagnant for a long time with no new drug approved till FDA approval for Bedaquiline. This
situation has now improved with a number of agents in pre-clinical and clinical development against M. tuberculosis. In this
review, we are focusing on some of the newer drugs in discovery and preclinical development against M. tuberculosis.
