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Host Antimicrobial Peptides: The Promise of New Treatment Strategies against Tuberculosis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2017
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a devastating infectious disease and remerges as a global health emergency due to an alarming rise of antimicrobial resistance to its treatment.
Javier Arranz-Trullén, Javier Arranz-Trullén, Lu Lu, David Pulido, Sanjib Bhakta, Ester Boix   +5 more
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The Synergistic Effects of the Glutathione Precursor, NAC and First-Line Antibiotics in the Granulomatous Response Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2018
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the causative bacterial agent responsible for tuberculosis (TB) continues to afflict millions of people worldwide. Although the human immune system plays a critical role in containing M.
Garrett Teskey, Ruoqiong Cao, Ruoqiong Cao, Hicret Islamoglu, Albert Medina, Chaya Prasad, Ramaa Prasad, Airani Sathananthan, Marcel Fraix, Selvakumar Subbian, Li Zhong, Li Zhong, Li Zhong, Vishwanath Venketaraman, Vishwanath Venketaraman   +14 more
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Functional Whole Genome Screen of Nutrient-Starved Mycobacterium tuberculosis Identifies Genes Involved in Rifampin Tolerance

Microorganisms, 2023
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), poses a global health challenge and is responsible for over a million deaths each year.
William M. Matern, Harley T. Harris, Carina Danchik, Marissa McDonald, Gopi Patel, Aashish Srivastava, Thomas R. Ioerger, Joel S. Bader, Petros C. Karakousis   +8 more
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Tuberculosis of Frontal Bone—A Rare Entity: Case Report and Review of Literature

Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology
Tuberculosis of the frontal bone is a rare entity, most commonly occurring in childhood. In situations of painless scalp swelling coupled with or without a discharging sinus that has not responded to antibiotics, a strong index of suspicion must be ...
Jeba Nazneen, Vasundhara Patil, Ujjwal Agarwal, Aashna Karbhari, Gauri Bornak, Pranjal Rai, Abhishek Mahajan   +6 more
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The Antitubercular Activities of Natural Products with Fused-Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles

Pharmaceuticals
Tuberculosis (TB) is notorious as the leading cause of death worldwide due to a single infectious entity and its causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), has been able to evolve resistance to all existing drugs in the treatment arsenal ...
Helena I. Boshoff, Neha Malhotra, Clifton E. Barry, Sangmi Oh   +3 more
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Luteolin as a potential host-directed immunotherapy adjunct to isoniazid treatment of tuberculosis.

PLoS Pathogens, 2021
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem throughout the world with one third of the population latently infected and ~1.74 million deaths annually.
Dhiraj Kumar Singh, Sultan Tousif, Ashima Bhaskar, Annu Devi, Kriti Negi, Barnani Moitra, Anand Ranganathan, Ved Prakash Dwivedi, Gobardhan Das   +8 more
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GaMF1.39’s antibiotic efficacy and its enhanced antitubercular activity in combination with clofazimine, Telacebec, ND-011992, or TBAJ-876

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
ABSTRACT The Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) F-ATP synthase generates most of the biological energy currency ATP. Previously, we identified the mycobacterium-specific loop of the F-ATP synthase subunit γ as a new anti-tuberculosis target and discovered the novel diaminopyrimidine
Priya Ragunathan, Pearly Shuyi Ng, Samsher Singh, Wee Han Poh, Dennis Litty, Nitin Pal Kalia, Simon Larsson, Amaravadhi Harikishore, Scott A. Rice, Philip W. Ingham, Volker Müller, Garrett Moraski, Marvin J. Miller, Thomas Dick, Kevin Pethe, Gerhard Grüber   +15 more
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Quinoline: A versatile bioactive scaffold and its molecular hybridization

Results in Chemistry
Quinolines have become essential to many drugs, including broad-spectrum antibiotics, antivirus, antitubercular, and antimalarial agents. Owing to their importance in medicinal and pharmaceutic industries, several studies have been conducted to ...
Ibrahim A. Bala, Ohoud F. Al Sharif, Abdullah M. Asiri, Reda M. El-Shishtawy   +3 more
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Inadvertent provocative oral ondansetron use leading to toxic epidermal necrolysis in an HIV-infected patient

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2012
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a severe cutaneous adverse reaction to drugs, characterized by extensive detachment of epidermis and mucous membranes with a mortality of 30-40%.
Punit P Saraogi, Chitra S Nayak, Rickson R Pereira, Rachita S Dhurat   +3 more
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Exploring the structural aspects of alanine racemase enzyme for antitubercular drug discovery – a computational approach

Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Research
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease that is a significant cause of ill health and one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The current antibiotics have been pivotal in managing TB to a greater extent.
Unni Jayaram, Parthan Anilkumar, Fathima Rifana Yousuf, Graceson Jose   +3 more
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