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Deshpande D, Magombedze G, Boorgula GD, Chapagain M, Srivastava S, Gumbo T. Ceftriaxone Efficacy for Mycobacterium avium Complex Lung Disease in the Hollow Fiber and Translation to Sustained Sputum Culture Conversion in Patients. J Infect Dis 2024; 230:e230-e240. [PMID: 38036299 PMCID: PMC11326821 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiad545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Only 35.6%-50.8% of patients with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) pulmonary disease achieve sustained sputum culture conversion (SSCC) on treatment with the azithromycin-ethambutol-rifabutin standard of care (SOC). We tested the efficacy of ceftriaxone, a β-lactam with a lung-to-serum penetration ratio of 12.18-fold. METHODS We mimicked lung concentration-time profiles of 7 ceftriaxone once-daily doses for 28 days in the hollow fiber system model of intracellular MAC (HFS-MAC). Monte Carlo experiments were used for dose selection. We also compared once-daily ceftriaxone monotherapy to 3-drug SOC against 5 MAC clinical isolates in HFS-MAC using γ (kill) slopes, and translated to SSCC rates. RESULTS Ceftriaxone killed 1.02-3.82 log10 colony-forming units (CFU)/mL, at optimal dose of 2 g once-daily. Ceftriaxone killed all 5 strains below day 0 versus 2 of 5 for SOC. The median γ (95% confidence interval [CI]) was 0.49 (.47-.52) log10 CFU/mL/day for ceftriaxone and 0.38 (.34-.43) log10 CFU/mL/day for SOC. In patients, the SOC was predicted to achieve SSCC rates (CI) of 39.3% (36%-42%) at 6 months. The SOC SSCC was 50% at 8.18 (3.64-27.66) months versus 3.58 (2.20-7.23) months for ceftriaxone, shortening time to SSCC 2.35-fold. CONCLUSIONS Ceftriaxone is a promising agent for creation of short-course chemotherapy.
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
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- Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Texas at Tyler
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
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- Mathematical Modeling and AI Department, Praedicare Inc, Dallas
- Hollow Fiber System and Experimental Therapeutics Laboratories, Praedicare Inc, Dallas, Texas
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Che Y, Lu Y, Zhu Y, He T, Li X, Gao J, Gao J, Wang X, Liu Z, Tong F. Surveillance of fluoroquinolones resistance in rifampicin-susceptible tuberculosis in eastern China with whole-genome sequencing-based approach. Front Microbiol 2024; 15:1413618. [PMID: 39050625 PMCID: PMC11266052 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1413618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/13/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024] Open
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Background Leveraging well-established DNA-level drug resistance mechanisms, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has emerged as a valuable methodology for predicting drug resistance. As the most effective second-line anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) drugs, fluoroquinoloness (FQs) are generally used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB, defined as being resistant to resistant to rifampicin and isoniazid) or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB). However, FQs are also commonly used in the management of other bacterial infections. There are few published data on the rates of FQs resistance among rifampicin-susceptible TB. The prevalence of FQs resistance among TB patients who are rifampicin-susceptible has not been studied in Zhejiang Province, China. The goal of this study was to provide a baseline characterization of the prevalence of FQs resistance, particularly among rifampicin-susceptible TB in Zhejiang Province, China. Methods Based on WGS, we have investigated the prevalence of FQs resistance among rifampicin-susceptible TB in Zhejiang Province. All pulmonary TB patients with positive cultures who were identified in Zhejiang area during TB drug resistance surveillance from 2018 to 2019 have enrolled in this population-based retrospective study. Results The rate of FQs resistance was 4.6% (32/698) among TB, 4.0% (27/676) among rifampicin-susceptible TB, and 22.7% (5/22) among RR-TB. According to WGS, strains that differ within 12 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were considered to be transmission of FQ-resistant strains. Specifically, 3.7% (1/27) of FQs resistance was caused by the transmission of FQs-resistant strains among the rifampicin-susceptible TB and 40.7% (11/27) of FQs resistance was identified as hetero-resistance. Conclusion The prevalence of FQs resistance among TB patients who were rifampicin-susceptible was severe in Zhejiang. The emergence of FQs resistance in TB isolates that are rifampicin-susceptible was mainly caused by the selection of drug-resistant strains. In order to prevent the emergence of FQs resistance, the WGS-based surveillance system for TB should be urgently established, and clinical awareness of the responsible use of FQs for respiratory infections should be enhanced.
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- Yang Che
- Institute of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ningbo, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine in Diagnosis and Monitoring Research of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China
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- The Institute of TB Control, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ningbo, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine in Diagnosis and Monitoring Research of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine in Diagnosis and Monitoring Research of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine in Diagnosis and Monitoring Research of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China
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- The Institute of TB Control, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- The Institute of TB Control, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control, Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ningbo, China
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Offman EM, Leestemaker-Palmer A, Fathi R, Keefe B, Bibliowicz A, Raday G, Bermudez LE. Triple-Antibiotic Combination Exerts Effective Activity against Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis Biofilm and Airway Infection in an In Vivo Murine Model. Antibiotics (Basel) 2024; 13:475. [PMID: 38927142 PMCID: PMC11200515 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics13060475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2024] [Revised: 05/13/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES Slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs) are highly prevalent and routinely cause opportunistic intracellular infectious disease in immunocompromised hosts. METHODS The activity of the triple combination of antibiotics, clarithromycin (CLR), rifabutin (RFB), and clofazimine (CFZ), was evaluated and compared with the activity of single antibiotics as well as with double combinations in an in vitro biofilm assay and an in vivo murine model of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (M. avium) lung infection. RESULTS Treatment of 1-week-old biofilms with the triple combination exerted the strongest effect of all (0.12 ± 0.5 × 107 CFU/mL) in reducing bacterial growth as compared to the untreated (5.20 ± 0.5 × 107/mL) or any other combination (≥0.75 ± 0.6 × 107/mL) by 7 days. The treatment of mice intranasally infected with M. avium with either CLR and CFZ or the triple combination provided the greatest reduction in CLR-sensitive M. avium bacterial counts in both the lung and spleen compared to any single antibiotic or remaining double combination by 4 weeks posttreatment. After 4 weeks of treatment with the triple combination, there were no resistant colonies detected in mice infected with a CLR-resistant strain. No clear relationships between treatment and spleen or lung organ weights were apparent after triple combination treatment. CONCLUSIONS The biofilm assay data and mouse disease model efficacy results support the further investigation of the triple-antibiotic combination.
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; (A.L.-P.); (B.K.)
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- RedHill Biopharma Ltd., Tel Aviv 6473921, Israel; (R.F.); (G.R.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; (A.L.-P.); (B.K.)
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- RedHill Biopharma Ltd., Tel Aviv 6473921, Israel; (R.F.); (G.R.)
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- RedHill Biopharma Ltd., Tel Aviv 6473921, Israel; (R.F.); (G.R.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; (A.L.-P.); (B.K.)
- Department of Microbiology, College of Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Zweijpfenning SMH, Aarnoutse R, Boeree MJ, Magis-Escurra C, Stemkens R, Geurts B, van Ingen J, Hoefsloot W. Safety and Efficacy of Clofazimine as an Alternative for Rifampicin in Mycobacterium avium Complex Pulmonary Disease Treatment: Outcomes of a Randomized Trial. Chest 2024; 165:1082-1092. [PMID: 38040054 DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.11.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Results of retrospective studies have suggested clofazimine as an alternative for rifampicin in the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease (MAC-PD). RESEARCH QUESTION Is a treatment regimen consisting of clofazimine-ethambutol-macrolide noninferior to the standard treatment regimen (rifampicin-ethambutol-macrolide) in the treatment of MAC-PD? STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS In this single-center, nonanonymized clinical trial, adult patients with MAC-PD were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive rifampicin or clofazimine as adjuncts to an ethambutol-macrolide regimen. The primary outcome was sputum culture conversion following 6 months of treatment. RESULTS Forty patients were assigned to receive either rifampicin (n = 19) or clofazimine (n = 21) in addition to ethambutol and a macrolide. Following 6 months of treatment, both arms showed similar percentages of sputum culture conversion based on an intention-to-treat analysis: 58% (11 of 19) for rifampicin and 62% (13 of 21) for clofazimine. Study discontinuation, mainly due to adverse events, was equal in both arms (26% vs 33%). Based on an on-treatment analysis, sputum culture conversion following 6 months of treatment was 79% in both groups. In the clofazimine arm, diarrhea was more prevalent (76% vs 37%; P = .012), while arthralgia was more frequent in the rifampicin arm (37% vs 5%; P = .011). No difference in the frequency of corrected QT interval prolongation was seen between groups. INTERPRETATION A clofazimine-ethambutol-macrolide regimen showed similar results to the standard rifampicin-ethambutol-macrolide regimen and should be considered in the treatment of MAC-PD. The frequency of adverse events was similar in both arms, but their nature was different. Individual patient characteristics and possible drug-drug interactions should be taken into consideration when choosing an antibiotic regimen for MAC-PD. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION EudraCT; No.: 2015-003786-28; URL: https://eudract.ema.europa.eu.
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- Sanne M H Zweijpfenning
- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, TB Expert Center, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, TB Expert Center, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, TB Expert Center, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmacy, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, TB Expert Center, Research Institute for Medical Innovation, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Dartois V, Dick T. Therapeutic developments for tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2024; 23:381-403. [PMID: 38418662 PMCID: PMC11078618 DOI: 10.1038/s41573-024-00897-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Tuberculosis (TB) drug discovery and development has undergone nothing short of a revolution over the past 20 years. Successful public-private partnerships and sustained funding have delivered a much-improved understanding of mycobacterial disease biology and pharmacology and a healthy pipeline that can tolerate inevitable attrition. Preclinical and clinical development has evolved from decade-old concepts to adaptive designs that permit rapid evaluation of regimens that might greatly shorten treatment duration over the next decade. But the past 20 years also saw the rise of a fatal and difficult-to-cure lung disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), for which the drug development pipeline is nearly empty. Here, we discuss the similarities and differences between TB and NTM lung diseases, compare the preclinical and clinical advances, and identify major knowledge gaps and areas of cross-fertilization. We argue that applying paradigms and networks that have proved successful for TB, from basic research to clinical trials, will help to populate the pipeline and accelerate curative regimen development for NTM disease.
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- Véronique Dartois
- Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, NJ, USA.
- Department of Medical Sciences, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ, USA.
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- Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, NJ, USA
- Department of Medical Sciences, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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Dheda K, Mirzayev F, Cirillo DM, Udwadia Z, Dooley KE, Chang KC, Omar SV, Reuter A, Perumal T, Horsburgh CR, Murray M, Lange C. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Nat Rev Dis Primers 2024; 10:22. [PMID: 38523140 DOI: 10.1038/s41572-024-00504-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains the foremost cause of death by an infectious disease globally. Multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB; resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid, or rifampicin alone) is a burgeoning public health challenge in several parts of the world, and especially Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Pre-extensively drug-resistant TB (pre-XDR-TB) refers to MDR/RR-TB that is also resistant to a fluoroquinolone, and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) isolates are additionally resistant to other key drugs such as bedaquiline and/or linezolid. Collectively, these subgroups are referred to as drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). All forms of DR-TB can be as transmissible as rifampicin-susceptible TB; however, it is more difficult to diagnose, is associated with higher mortality and morbidity, and higher rates of post-TB lung damage. The various forms of DR-TB often consume >50% of national TB budgets despite comprising <5-10% of the total TB case-load. The past decade has seen a dramatic change in the DR-TB treatment landscape with the introduction of new diagnostics and therapeutic agents. However, there is limited guidance on understanding and managing various aspects of this complex entity, including the pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, management and prevention of MDR-TB and XDR-TB, especially at the primary care physician level.
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- Keertan Dheda
- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute & South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infection, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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- Global Tuberculosis Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pulmonology, Hinduja Hospital & Research Center, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Tuberculosis and Chest Service, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- Centre for Tuberculosis, National & WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Department of Molecular Medicine & Haematology, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Sentinel Project on Paediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute & South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infection, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), TTU-TB, Borstel, Germany
- Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Department of Paediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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Cheng L, Luo M, Guo Y, Fan Y, Wang P, Zhou G, Qin S, Weng B, Li P, Liu Z, Liu S. Correlations among the plasma concentrations of first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs and the physiological parameters influencing concentrations. Front Pharmacol 2023; 14:1248331. [PMID: 37869746 PMCID: PMC10587680 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1248331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023] Open
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Background: The plasma concentrations of the four most commonly used first-line anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs, isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RMP), ethambutol (EMB), and pyrazinamide (PZA), are often not within the therapeutic range. Insufficient drug exposure could lead to drug resistance and treatment failure, while excessive drug levels may lead to adverse reactions. The purpose of this study was to identify the physiological parameters influencing anti-TB drug concentrations. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted. The 2-h plasma concentrations of the four drugs were measured by using the high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method. Results: A total of 317 patients were included in the study. The proportions of patients with INH, RMP, EMB, and PZA concentrations within the therapeutic range were 24.3%, 31.5%, 27.8%, and 18.6%, respectively. There were positive associations between the concentrations of INH and PZA and RMP and EMB, but negative associations were observed between the concentrations of INH and RMP, INH and EMB, RMP and PZA, and EMB and PZA. In the multivariate analysis, the influencing factors of the INH concentration were the PZA concentration, total bile acid (TBA), serum potassium, dose, direct bilirubin, prealbumin (PA), and albumin; those of the RMP concentration were PZA and EMB concentrations, weight, α-l-fucosidase (AFU), drinking, and dose; those of the EMB concentration were the RMP and PZA concentrations, creatinine, TBA and indirect bilirubin; and those of the PZA concentration were INH, RMP and EMB concentrations, sex, weight, uric acid and drinking. Conclusion: The complex correlations between the concentrations of the four first-line anti-TB drugs lead to a major challenge in dose adjustment to maintain all drugs within the therapeutic window. Levels of TBA, PA, AFU, and serum potassium should also be considered when adjusting the dose of the four drugs.
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- Lin Cheng
- Department of Pharmacy, the First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Southwest University Public Health Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Southwest University Public Health Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Southwest University Public Health Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Southwest University Public Health Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, the First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, the First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Southwest University Public Health Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, the First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Southwest University Public Health Hospital, Chongqing, China
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Chen X, Gallagher F, Sellmyer MA, Ordonez AA, Kjaer A, Ohliger M, Wilson DM, Jain SK. Visualizing Bacterial Infections With Novel Targeted Molecular Imaging Approaches. J Infect Dis 2023; 228:S249-S258. [PMID: 37788506 PMCID: PMC10547462 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiad078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
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Although nearly a century has elapsed since the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections remain a major global threat. Global antibiotic use resulted in an astounding 42 billion doses of antibiotics administered in 2015 with 128 billion annual doses expected by 2030. This overuse of antibiotics has led to the selection of multidrug-resistant "super-bugs," resulting in increasing numbers of patients being susceptible to life-threatening infections with few available therapeutic options. New clinical tools are therefore urgently needed to identify bacterial infections and monitor response to antibiotics, thereby limiting overuse of antibiotics and improving overall health. Next-generation molecular imaging affords unique opportunities to target and identify bacterial infections, enabling spatial characterization as well as noninvasive, temporal monitoring of the natural course of the disease and response to therapy. These emerging noninvasive imaging approaches could overcome several limitations of current tools in infectious disease, such as the need for biological samples for testing with their associated sampling bias. Imaging of living bacteria can also reveal basic biological insights about their behavior in vivo.
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- Xueyi Chen
- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine and Cluster for Molecular Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Akkerman OW, Dijkwel RDC, Kerstjens HAM, van der Werf TS, Srivastava S, Sturkenboom MGG, Bolhuis MS. Isoniazid and rifampicin exposure during treatment in drug-susceptible TB. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2023; 27:772-777. [PMID: 37749836 PMCID: PMC10519386 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND: Observational real-world studies on therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in relation to pharmacokinetic (PK) target values are lacking. This study aims to describe the PK of rifampicin (RIF) and isoniazid (INH) in a real-world setting of patients with drug-susceptible TB in relation to frequently used threshold values.METHODS: A total of 116 patients with TB using standard doses of RIF and INH and who had TDM as part of clinical care were included. Maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) and 24 h area under the concentration time curve (AUC24) at standard and revised doses were described in relation to the threshold values (Cmax ≥8 mg/L for RIF and ≥3 mg/L for INH).RESULTS: For RIF (100 patients), median Cmax and median AUC24 were respectively 7.9 mg/L (IQR 6.0-11.0) and 35.8 mg*h/L (IQR 27.4-57.3) at the first TDM measurement after a standard dose of 600 mg. For INH (90 patients), median Cmax and median AUC24 were respectively 2.9 mg/L (IQR 1.3-2.5) and 12.5 mg*h/L (IQR 8.7-18.9) at the first TDM after a standard dose 300 mg. Overall, more than 50% of study participants had drug exposure below threshold values at the first TDM.CONCLUSION: Our study shows that the measured Cmax values for both RIF and INH were frequently below the pre-specified targets, emphasising the need for better justification of drug exposure targets. These TDM results highlight the need for validating PK targets of anti-TB drugs associated with clinically relevant outcomes.
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- O W Akkerman
- Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Tuberculosis Center Beatrixoord, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Haren
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- Departments of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, and
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Departments of Internal Medicine and Infectiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA, Department of Center for Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA
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- Departments of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, and
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Ramachandran A, Gadgil CJ. A physiologically-based pharmacokinetic model for tuberculosis drug disposition at extrapulmonary sites. CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol 2023; 12:1274-1284. [PMID: 37431175 PMCID: PMC10508491 DOI: 10.1002/psp4.13008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/12/2023] Open
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of mortality attributed to an infectious agent. TB primarily targets the lungs, but in about 16% cases can affect other organs as well, giving rise to extrapulmonary TB (EPTB). However, an optimal regimen for EPTB treatment is not defined. Although the recommended treatment for most forms of EPTB is the same as pulmonary TB, the pharmacokinetics of EPTB therapy are not as well studied. To address this gap, we formulate a whole-body physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for EPTB that for the first time includes the ability to simulate drug concentrations in the pleura and lymph node, the most commonly affected sites of EPTB. Using this model, we estimate the time-dependent concentrations, at potential EPTB infection sites, of the following four first-line anti-TB drugs: rifampicin, ethambutol, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide. We use reported plasma concentration kinetics data to estimate model parameters for each drug and validate our model using reported concentration data not used for model formulation or parameter estimation. Model predictions match the validation data, and reported pharmacokinetic parameters (maximum plasma concentration, time to reach maximum concentration) for the drugs. The model also predicts ethambutol, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide concentrations in the pleura that match reported experimental values from an independent study. For each drug, the predicted drug concentrations at EPTB sites are compared with their critical concentration. Simulations suggest that although rifampicin and isoniazid concentrations are greater than critical concentration values at most EPTB sites, the concentrations of ethambutol and pyrazinamide are lower than their critical concentrations at most EPTB sites.
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- Aparna Ramachandran
- Chemical Engineering and Process Development DivisionCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research‐National Chemical LaboratoryPuneIndia
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research–Human Resource Development Centre CampusGhaziabadIndia
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- Chemical Engineering and Process Development DivisionCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research‐National Chemical LaboratoryPuneIndia
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research–Human Resource Development Centre CampusGhaziabadIndia
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research‐Institute of Genomics and Integrative BiologyDelhiIndia
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Chen RH, Michael T, Kuhlin J, Schön T, Stocker S, Alffenaar JWC. Is there a need to optimise pyrazinamide doses in patients with tuberculosis? A systematic review. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2023; 62:106914. [PMID: 37419292 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2023.106914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
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Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a first-line antituberculosis drug with potent sterilising activity. Variability in drug exposure may translate into suboptimal treatment responses. This systematic review, conducted according to PRISMA guidelines, aimed to evaluate the concentration-effect relationship. In vitro/in vivo studies had to contain information on the infection model, PZA dose and concentration, and microbiological outcome. Human studies had to present information on PZA dose, measures of drug exposure and maximum concentration, and microbiological response parameter or overall treatment outcome. A total of 34 studies were assessed, including in vitro (n = 2), in vivo (n = 3) and clinical studies (n = 29). Intracellular and extracellular models demonstrated a direct correlation between PZA dose of 15-50 mg/kg/day and reduction in bacterial count between 0.50-27.7 log10 CFU/mL. Consistent with this, higher PZA doses (>150 mg/kg) were associated with a greater reduction in bacterial burden in BALB/c mice models. Human pharmacokinetic studies displayed a linear positive correlation between PZA dose (i.e. 21.4-35.7 mg/kg/day) and drug exposure (AUC range 220.6-514.5 mg·h/L). Additionally, human studies confirmed a dose-effect relationship, with an increased 2-month sputum culture conversion rate at AUC/MIC targets of 8.4-11.3 with higher exposure/susceptibility ratios leading to greater efficacy. A 5-fold variability in AUC was observed at PZA dose of 25 mg/kg. A direct concentration-effect relationship and increased treatment efficacy with higher PZA exposure to susceptibility ratios was observed. Taking into account variability in drug exposure and treatment response, further studies on dose optimisation are justified.
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- Ricky Hao Chen
- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Infectious Diseases, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Infectious Diseases, Kalmar County Hospital, Linköping University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Clinical Medicine, St Vincent's Healthcare Clinical Campus, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Maseko TG, Ngubane S, Letsoalo M, Rambaran S, Archary D, Samsunder N, Perumal R, Chinappa S, Padayatchi N, Naidoo K, Sivro A. Higher plasma interleukin - 6 levels are associated with lung cavitation in drug-resistant tuberculosis. BMC Immunol 2023; 24:26. [PMID: 37653422 PMCID: PMC10472663 DOI: 10.1186/s12865-023-00563-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 08/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Lung cavitation is associated with heightened TB transmission and poor treatment outcomes. This study aimed to determine the relationship between systemic inflammation and lung cavitation in drug-resistant TB patients with and without HIV co-infection. METHODS Plasma samples were obtained from 128 participants from the CAPRISA 020 Individualized M(X)drug-resistant TB Treatment Strategy Study (InDEX) prior to treatment initiation. Lung cavitation was present in 61 of the 128 drug-resistant TB patients with 93 being co-infected with HIV. The plasma cytokine and chemokine levels were measured using the 27-Plex Human Cytokine immunoassay. Modified Poisson regression models were used to determine the association between plasma cytokine/chemokine expression and lung cavitation in individuals with drug-resistant TB. RESULTS Higher Interleukin-6 plasma levels (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] 1.405, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.079-1.829, p = 0.011) were associated with a higher risk of lung cavitation in the multivariable model adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, HIV status, smoking and previous history of TB. Smoking was associated with an increased risk of lung cavitation (aRR 1.784, 95% CI 1.167-2.729, p = 0.008). An HIV positive status and a higher body mass index, were associated with reduced risk of lung cavitation (aRR 0.537, 95% CI 0.371-0.775, p = 0.001 and aRR 0.927, 95% CI 0.874-0.983, p = 0.012 respectively). CONCLUSION High plasma interleukin-6 levels are associated with an increased risk of cavitary TB highlighting the role of interleukin-6 in the immunopathology of drug-resistant TB.
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- Thando Glory Maseko
- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)-CAPRISA-TB-HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KZN, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)-CAPRISA-TB-HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)-CAPRISA-TB-HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)-CAPRISA-TB-HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa.
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)-CAPRISA-TB-HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa.
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KZN, South Africa.
- JC Wilt Infectious Disease Research Centre, National Microbiology laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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Yu MWL, Li AM, Lai MH, Chan KCC. Rare but life-threatening cause of massive haemoptysis in an adolscent with tuberculosis: Rasmussen's aneurysm. BMJ Case Rep 2023; 16:e255480. [PMID: 37580099 PMCID: PMC10432668 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2023-255480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/16/2023] Open
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Rasmussen's aneurysm is a rare yet fatal cause of massive haemoptysis in pulmonary tuberculosis. Early identification and timely intervention are of utmost importance to reduce the associated mortality. A girl in early adolescence presented with persistent fever and massive haemoptysis who required intubation and was subsequently confirmed to have tuberculosis. CT pulmonary angiogram showed the presence of pseudoaneurysms in the left upper and lower lobes. The haemoptysis resolved following the embolisation of the culprit's vessel. Residual lung destruction was evident on CT after a 12-month course of antituberculosis therapy. Rasmussen's aneurysm is a significant vascular complication of cavitary tuberculosis and needs to be considered in patients presenting with massive haemoptysis.
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Hub of Paediatric Excellence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Hong Kong Hub of Paediatric Excellence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Srivastava S, Alffenaar JW, Wicha SG. Editorial: Pharmacology of infectious diseases: world tuberculosis day 2022. Front Pharmacol 2023; 14:1233347. [PMID: 37383709 PMCID: PMC10295713 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1233347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
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- Shashikant Srivastava
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States
- Center for Biomedical Research, University of Texas Health Science Centre at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States
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- Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Srivastava S, Wang JY, Magombedze G, Chapagain M, Huang HL, Deshpande D, Heysell SK, Pasipanodya JG, Gumbo T. Nouveau short-course therapy and morphism mapping for clinical pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2023; 95:AAC.01553-20. [PMID: 33558291 PMCID: PMC8092872 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01553-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Standard therapy [isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol], with or without a macrolide, for pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii lasts more than a year. Therefore, shorter treatment duration regimens are required. We used data from 32 Taiwanese patients treated with standard therapy who were followed using repetitive sampling-based sputum Mkn time-to-positivity in liquid cultures to calculate kill slopes [γ] based on ordinary differential equations and time-to-extinction of each patient's bacterial burden. The γ was 0.18 [95% Confidence Interval (CI): 0.16-0.20] log10 CFU/mL/day on standard therapy. Next, we identified Mkn time-to-extinction in the hollow fiber system model of pulmonary M. kansasii disease [HFS-Mkn] treated with standard therapy, which was a γ of 0.60 [95% CI: 0.45-0.69) log10 CFU/mL/day. The γs and time-to-extinctions between the two datasets formed structure-preserving maps based on category theory: thus, we could map them from one to the other using morphisms. This mapping identified a multistep non-linear transformation-factor for time-to-extinction from HFS-Mkn to patients. Next, a head-to-head study in the HFS-Mkn identified median time-to-extinction for standard therapy of 38.7 [95% CI: 29.1-53.2) days, isoniazid-rifampin-ethambutol-moxifloxacin of 21.7 [95% CI: 19.1-25) days, isoniazid-rifampin-moxifloxacin of 22 [96% CI: 20.1-24.5) days, and rifampin-moxifloxacin-tedizolid of 20.7 [95% CI:18.5-29) days. Our transformation-factor based translation predicted the proportion of patients of 90.7 [88.74-92.35)% achieving cure with standard therapy at 12 months, and 6-months cure rates of 99.8 [95% CI: 99.27-99.95)% for isoniazid-rifampin-ethambutol-moxifloxacin, 92.2 [90.37-93.71)% for isoniazid-rifampin-moxifloxacin, and 99.9 [99.44-99.99)% for rifampin-moxifloxacin-tedizolid. Thus, rifampin-moxifloxacin-tedizolid and isoniazid-rifampin-ethambutol-moxifloxacin are predicted to be short-course chemotherapy regimens for pulmonary M. kansasii disease.
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- Shashikant Srivastava
- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA
- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Quantitative Preclinical and Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Quantitative Preclinical and Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Praedicare Laboratories, Praedicare, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Liu Y, Moodley M, Pasipanodya JG, Gumbo T. Determining the Delamanid Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics Susceptibility Breakpoint Using Monte Carlo Experiments. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2023; 67:e0140122. [PMID: 36877034 PMCID: PMC10112185 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01401-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, based on clinical breakpoints that incorporate pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) and clinical outcomes, is becoming a new standard in guiding individual patient therapy as well as for drug resistance surveillance. However, for most antituberculosis drugs, breakpoints are instead defined by the epidemiological cutoff values of the MIC of phenotypically wild-type strains irrespective of PK/PD or dose. In this study, we determined the PK/PD breakpoint for delamanid by estimating the probability of target attainment for the approved dose administered at 100 mg twice daily using Monte Carlo experiments. We used the PK/PD targets (0- to 24-h area under the concentration-time curve to MIC) identified in a murine chronic tuberculosis model, hollow fiber system model of tuberculosis, early bactericidal activity studies of patients with drug-susceptible tuberculosis, and population pharmacokinetics in patients with tuberculosis. At the MIC of 0.016 mg/L, determined using Middlebrook 7H11 agar, the probability of target attainment was 100% in the 10,000 simulated subjects. The probability of target attainment fell to 25%, 40%, and 68% for PK/PD targets derived from the mouse model, the hollow fiber system model of tuberculosis, and patients, respectively, at the MIC of 0.031 mg/L. This indicates that an MIC of 0.016 mg/L is the delamanid PK/PD breakpoint for delamanid at 100 mg twice daily. Our study demonstrated that it is feasible to use PK/PD approaches to define a breakpoint for an antituberculosis drug.
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- Yongge Liu
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- Quantitative Preclinical & Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Quantitative Preclinical & Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA
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Domínguez J, Boeree MJ, Cambau E, Chesov D, Conradie F, Cox V, Dheda K, Dudnyk A, Farhat MR, Gagneux S, Grobusch MP, Gröschel MI, Guglielmetti L, Kontsevaya I, Lange B, van Leth F, Lienhardt C, Mandalakas AM, Maurer FP, Merker M, Miotto P, Molina-Moya B, Morel F, Niemann S, Veziris N, Whitelaw A, Horsburgh CR, Lange C. Clinical implications of molecular drug resistance testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a 2023 TBnet/RESIST-TB consensus statement. THE LANCET. INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2023; 23:e122-e137. [PMID: 36868253 DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(22)00875-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
Abstract
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a substantial health-care concern worldwide. Despite culture-based methods being considered the gold standard for drug susceptibility testing, molecular methods provide rapid information about the Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutations associated with resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs. This consensus document was developed on the basis of a comprehensive literature search, by the TBnet and RESIST-TB networks, about reporting standards for the clinical use of molecular drug susceptibility testing. Review and the search for evidence included hand-searching journals and searching electronic databases. The panel identified studies that linked mutations in genomic regions of M tuberculosis with treatment outcome data. Implementation of molecular testing for the prediction of drug resistance in M tuberculosis is key. Detection of mutations in clinical isolates has implications for the clinical management of patients with multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis, especially in situations when phenotypic drug susceptibility testing is not available. A multidisciplinary team including clinicians, microbiologists, and laboratory scientists reached a consensus on key questions relevant to molecular prediction of drug susceptibility or resistance to M tuberculosis, and their implications for clinical practice. This consensus document should help clinicians in the management of patients with tuberculosis, providing guidance for the design of treatment regimens and optimising outcomes.
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- José Domínguez
- Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, INNOVA4TB Consortium, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Lung Diseases, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Paris, France, APHP-Hôpital Bichat, Mycobacteriology Laboratory, INSERM, University Paris Cite, IAME UMR1137, Paris, France
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- Department of Pneumology and Allergology, Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Moldova; Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg- Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany; Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute & South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infection, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Tuberculosis, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine; Public Health Center, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity, Amsterdam Public Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM, U1135, Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, (Cimi-Paris), APHP Sorbonne Université, Department of Bacteriology Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Paris, France
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- Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg- Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany; Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department for Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research, TI BBD, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Health Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; UMI 233 IRD-U1175 INSERM - Université de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France
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- Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg- Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany; Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Global TB Program, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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- National and Supranational Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg- Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany; Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Evolution of the Resistome, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg- Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany
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- Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, INNOVA4TB Consortium, Barcelona, Spain
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM, U1135, Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, (Cimi-Paris), APHP Sorbonne Université, Department of Bacteriology Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Paris, France
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- Division of Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg- Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany; Department of Human, Biological and Translational Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM, U1135, Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, (Cimi-Paris), APHP Sorbonne Université, Department of Bacteriology Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Paris, France
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- Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Global Health and Medicine, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg- Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Borstel, Germany; Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Global TB Program, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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Chirehwa MT, Resendiz-Galvan JE, Court R, De Kock M, Wiesner L, de Vries N, Harding J, Gumbo T, Warren R, Maartens G, Denti P, McIlleron H. Optimizing Moxifloxacin Dose in MDR-TB Participants with or without Efavirenz Coadministration Using Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2023; 67:e0142622. [PMID: 36744891 PMCID: PMC10019313 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01426-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Moxifloxacin is included in some treatment regimens for drug-sensitive tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). Aiming to optimize dosing, we described moxifloxacin pharmacokinetic and MIC distribution in participants with MDR-TB. Participants enrolled at two TB hospitals in South Africa underwent intensive pharmacokinetic sampling approximately 1 to 6 weeks after treatment initiation. Plasma drug concentrations and clinical data were analyzed using nonlinear mixed-effects modeling with simulations to evaluate doses for different scenarios. We enrolled 131 participants (54 females), with median age of 35.7 (interquartile range, 28.5 to 43.5) years, median weight of 47 (42.0 to 54.0) kg, and median fat-free mass of 40.1 (32.3 to 44.7) kg; 79 were HIV positive, 29 of whom were on efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy. Moxifloxacin pharmacokinetics were described with a 2-compartment model, transit absorption, and elimination via a liver compartment. We included allometry based on fat-free mass to estimate disposition parameters. We estimated an oral clearance for a typical patient to be 17.6 L/h. Participants treated with efavirenz had increased clearance, resulting in a 44% reduction in moxifloxacin exposure. Simulations predicted that, even at a median MIC of 0.25 (0.06 to 16) mg/L, the standard daily dose of 400 mg has a low probability of attaining the ratio of the area under the unbound concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h to the MIC (fAUC0-24)/MIC target of >53, particularly in heavier participants. The high-dose WHO regimen (600 to 800 mg) yielded higher, more balanced exposures across the weight ranges, with better target attainment. When coadministered with efavirenz, moxifloxacin doses of up to 1,000 mg are needed to match these exposures. The safety of higher moxifloxacin doses in clinical settings should be confirmed.
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- M. T. Chirehwa
- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Brooklyn Chest Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- DP Marais Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Quantitative Preclinical and Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA
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- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa), Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Mehta HH, Song X, Shamoo Y. Intracellular Experimental Evolution of Francisella tularensis Subsp. holarctica Live Vaccine Strain (LVS) to Antimicrobial Resistance. ACS Infect Dis 2023; 9:308-321. [PMID: 36662533 PMCID: PMC9996545 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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In vitro experimental evolution has complemented clinical studies as an excellent tool to identify genetic changes responsible for the de novo evolution of antimicrobial resistance. However, the in vivo context for adaptation contributes to the success of particular evolutionary trajectories, especially in intracellular niches where the adaptive landscape of virulence and resistance are strongly coupled. In this work, we designed an ex vivo evolution approach to identify evolutionary trajectories responsible for antibiotic resistance in the Live Vaccine Strain (LVS) of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica while being passaged to increasing ciprofloxacin (CIP) and doxycycline (DOX) concentrations within macrophages. Overall, adaptation within macrophages advanced much slower when compared to previous in vitro evolution studies reflecting a limiting capacity for the expansion of adaptive mutations within the macrophage. Longitudinal genomic analysis identified resistance conferring gyrase mutations outside the Quinolone Resistance Determining Region. Strikingly, FupA/B mutations that are uniquely associated with in vitro CIP resistance in Francisella were not observed ex vivo, reflecting the coupling of intracellular survival and resistance during intracellular adaptation. To our knowledge, this is the first experimental study demonstrating the ability to conduct experimental evolution to antimicrobial resistance within macrophages. The results provide evidence of differences in mutational profiles of populations adapted to the same antibiotic in different environments/cellular compartments and underscore the significance of host mediated stress during resistance evolution.
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- Heer H Mehta
- Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Aguilar Diaz JM, Abulfathi AA, te Brake LHM, van Ingen J, Kuipers S, Magis-Escurra C, Raaijmakers J, Svensson EM, Boeree MJ. New and Repurposed Drugs for the Treatment of Active Tuberculosis: An Update for Clinicians. Respiration 2023; 102:83-100. [PMID: 36516792 PMCID: PMC9932851 DOI: 10.1159/000528274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Although tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable, the lengthy treatment (generally 6 months), poor patient adherence, high inter-individual variability in pharmacokinetics (PK), emergence of drug resistance, presence of comorbidities, and adverse drug reactions complicate TB therapy and drive the need for new drugs and/or regimens. Hence, new compounds are being developed, available drugs are repurposed, and the dosing of existing drugs is optimized, resulting in the largest drug development portfolio in TB history. This review highlights a selection of clinically available drug candidates that could be part of future TB regimens, including bedaquiline, delamanid, pretomanid, linezolid, clofazimine, optimized (high dose) rifampicin, rifapentine, and para-aminosalicylic acid. The review covers drug development history, preclinical data, PK, and current clinical development.
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- Jessica M Aguilar Diaz
- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, TB Expert Center Dekkerswald, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutics, Lake Nona (Orlando), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA,Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria,Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, TB Expert Center Dekkerswald, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, TB Expert Center Dekkerswald, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,*Martin J. Boeree,
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Lawal IO, Abubakar S, Ankrah AO, Sathekge MM. Molecular Imaging of Tuberculosis. Semin Nucl Med 2023; 53:37-56. [PMID: 35882621 DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Despite the introduction of many novel diagnostic techniques and newer treatment agents, tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide. With about a quarter of humanity harboring Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of TB, the current efforts geared towards reducing the scourge due to TB must be sustained. At the same time, newer alternative modalities for diagnosis and treatment response assessment are considered. Molecular imaging entails the use of radioactive probes that exploit molecular targets expressed by microbes or human cells for imaging using hybrid scanners that provide both anatomic and functional features of the disease being imaged. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is the most investigated radioactive probe for TB imaging in research and clinical practice. When imaged with positron emission tomography interphase with computed tomography (PET/CT), FDG PET/CT performs better than sputum conversion for predicting treatment outcome. At the end of treatment, FDG PET/CT has demonstrated the unique ability to identify a subset of patients declared cured based on the current standard of care but who still harbor live bacilli capable of causing disease relapse after therapy discontinuation. Our understanding of the pathogenesis and evolution of TB has improved significantly in the last decade, owing to the introduction of FDG PET/CT in TB research. FDG is a non-specific probe as it targets the host inflammatory response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is not specifically different in TB compared with other infectious conditions. Ongoing efforts are geared towards evaluating the utility of newer probes targeting different components of the TB granuloma, the hallmark of TB lesions, including hypoxia, neovascularization, and fibrosis, in TB management. The most exciting category of non-FDG PET probes developed for molecular imaging of TB appears to be radiolabeled anti-tuberculous drugs for use in studying the pharmacokinetic characteristics of the drugs. This allows for the non-invasive study of drug kinetics in different body compartments concurrently, providing an insight into the spatial heterogeneity of drug exposure in different TB lesions. The ability to repeat molecular imaging using radiolabeled anti-tuberculous agents also offers an opportunity to study the temporal changes in drug kinetics within the different lesions during treatment.
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- Ismaheel O Lawal
- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Center, Muscat, Oman
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa; National Center for Radiotherapy Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana; Medical Imaging Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa; Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa
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Calligaro GL, Singh N, Pennel TC, Steyn R, Brink A, Esmail A, Mottay L, Oelofse S, Mastrapa BL, Basera W, Manning K, Ofoegbu C, Linegar A, Dheda K. Outcomes of patients undergoing lung resection for drug-resistant TB and the prognostic significance of pre-operative positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in predicting treatment failure. EClinicalMedicine 2023; 55:101728. [PMID: 36386040 PMCID: PMC9646880 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Surgery remains an adjunctive treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) treatment failure despite the use of bedaquiline. However, there are few data about the role of surgery when combined with newer drugs. There are no outcome data from TB endemic countries, and the prognostic significance of pre-operative PET-CT remains unknown. METHODS We performed a prospective observational study of 57 DR-TB patients referred for surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital between 2010 and 2016. PET-CT was performed if there was nodal disease or disease outside the area of planned resection but did not influence treatment decisions. 24-month treatment success post-surgery (cure or treatment completion), including all-cause mortality, was determined. FINDINGS 35/57 (61.4%) patients (median age 40 years; 26% HIV-infected) underwent surgery and 22/57 (38.6%) did not (11 patients were deemed unsuitable due to bilateral cavitary disease and 11 patients declined surgery). Treatment failure was significantly lower in those who underwent surgery compared to those eligible but declined surgery [15/35 (43%) versus 11/11 (100%); relative risk 0.57 (0.42-0.76); p < 0.01). In patients treated with surgery, a post-operative regimen containing bedaquiline was associated with a lower odds of treatment failure [OR (95%CI) 0.06 (0.00-0.48); p = 0.007]. Pre-operative PET-CT (n = 25) did not predict treatment outcome. INTERPRETATION Resectional surgery for DR-TB combined with chemotherapy was associated with significantly better outcomes than chemotherapy alone. A post-operative bedaquiline-containing regimen was associated with improved outcome; however, this finding may have been confounded by higher use of bedaquiline and less loss to follow-up in the surgical group. However, PET-CT had no prognostic value. These data inform clinical practice in TB-endemic settings. FUNDING This work was supported by the South African MRC (RFA-EMU-02-2017) and the EDCTP (TMA-2015SF-1043 & TMA- 1051-TESAII).
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- Gregory L. Calligaro
- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute and South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute and South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute and South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute and South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute and South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- District Clinical Specialist Team, Namakwa District, Springbok, South Africa
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Burden of Disease Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute and South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Corresponding author. Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity , H46.41 Old Main Building, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town 7925, South Africa.
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Dookie N, Ngema SL, Perumal R, Naicker N, Padayatchi N, Naidoo K. The Changing Paradigm of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment: Successes, Pitfalls, and Future Perspectives. Clin Microbiol Rev 2022; 35:e0018019. [PMID: 36200885 PMCID: PMC9769521 DOI: 10.1128/cmr.00180-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains a global crisis due to the increasing incidence of drug-resistant forms of the disease, gaps in detection and prevention, models of care, and limited treatment options. The DR-TB treatment landscape has evolved over the last 10 years. Recent developments include the remarkable activity demonstrated by the newly approved anti-TB drugs bedaquiline and pretomanid against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Hence, treatment of DR-TB has drastically evolved with the introduction of the short-course regimen for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), transitioning to injection-free regimens and the approval of the 6-month short regimens for rifampin-resistant TB and MDR-TB. Moreover, numerous clinical trials are under way with the aim to reduce pill burden and shorten the DR-TB treatment duration. While there have been apparent successes in the field, some challenges remain. These include the ongoing inclusion of high-dose isoniazid in DR-TB regimens despite a lack of evidence for its efficacy and the inclusion of ethambutol and pyrazinamide in the standard short regimen despite known high levels of background resistance to both drugs. Furthermore, antimicrobial heteroresistance, extensive cavitary disease and intracavitary gradients, the emergence of bedaquiline resistance, and the lack of biomarkers to monitor DR-TB treatment response remain serious challenges to the sustained successes. In this review, we outline the impact of the new drugs and regimens on patient treatment outcomes, explore evidence underpinning current practices on regimen selection and duration, reflect on the disappointments and pitfalls in the field, and highlight key areas that require continued efforts toward improving treatment approaches and rapid biomarkers for monitoring treatment response.
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- Navisha Dookie
- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council–CAPRISA HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council–CAPRISA HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council–CAPRISA HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, Durban, South Africa
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- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council–CAPRISA HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, Durban, South Africa
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Clinical Outcome with Standard Regimen plus Clofazimine or Moxifloxacin in Cavitary Mycobacterium avium Complex Pulmonary Disease. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2022; 66:e0052822. [PMID: 36326247 PMCID: PMC9765275 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00528-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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In this retrospective analysis including 173 patients in a tertiary referral center in South Korea, compared with the standard therapeutic regimen, clofazimine or moxifloxacin plus standard treatment regimen potentially did not induce a higher 1-year culture conversion rate in patients with Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease who present with cavitary lesions (fibrocavitary or cavitary nodular bronchiectatic type).
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Cheng S, Fleres G, Chen L, Liu G, Hao B, Newbrough A, Driscoll E, Shields RK, Squires KM, Chu TY, Kreiswirth BN, Nguyen MH, Clancy CJ. Within-Host Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity of Contemporaneous Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from Blood Cultures of Patients with Bacteremia. mBio 2022; 13:e0290622. [PMID: 36445082 PMCID: PMC9765435 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02906-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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It is unknown whether bacterial bloodstream infections (BSIs) are commonly caused by single organisms or mixed microbial populations. We hypothesized that contemporaneous carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) strains from blood cultures of individual patients are genetically and phenotypically distinct. We determined short-read whole-genome sequences of 10 sequence type 258 (ST258) CRKP strains from blood cultures in each of 6 patients (Illumina HiSeq). Strains clustered by patient by core genome and pan-genome phylogeny. In 5 patients, there was within-host strain diversity by gene mutations, presence/absence of antibiotic resistance or virulence genes, and/or plasmid content. Accessory gene phylogeny revealed strain diversity in all 6 patients. Strains from 3 patients underwent long-read sequencing for genome completion (Oxford Nanopore) and phenotypic testing. Genetically distinct strains within individuals exhibited significant differences in carbapenem and other antibiotic responses, capsular polysaccharide (CPS) production, mucoviscosity, and/or serum killing. In 2 patients, strains differed significantly in virulence during mouse BSIs. Genetic or phenotypic diversity was not observed among strains recovered from blood culture bottles seeded with index strains from the 3 patients and incubated in vitro at 37°C. In conclusion, we identified genotypic and phenotypic variant ST258 CRKP strains from blood cultures of individual patients with BSIs, which were not detected by the clinical laboratory or in seeded blood cultures. The data suggest a new paradigm of CRKP population diversity during BSIs, at least in some patients. If validated for BSIs caused by other bacteria, within-host microbial diversity may have implications for medical, microbiology, and infection prevention practices and for understanding antibiotic resistance and pathogenesis. IMPORTANCE The long-standing paradigm for pathogenesis of bacteremia is that, in most cases, a single organism passes through a bottleneck and establishes itself in the bloodstream (single-organism hypothesis). In keeping with this paradigm, standard practice in processing positive microbiologic cultures is to test single bacterial strains from morphologically distinct colonies. This study is the first genome-wide analysis of within-host diversity of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains recovered from individual patients with bloodstream infections (BSIs). Our finding that positive blood cultures comprised genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae strains challenges the single-organism hypothesis and suggests that at least some BSIs are caused by mixed bacterial populations that are unrecognized by the clinical laboratory. The data support a model of pathogenesis in which pressures in vivo select for strain variants with particular antibiotic resistance or virulence attributes and raise questions about laboratory protocols and treatment decisions directed against single strains.
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- Shaoji Cheng
- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
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- Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Adamová B, Říhová K, Pokludová J, Beneš P, Šmarda J, Navrátilová J. Synergistic cytotoxicity of perifosine and ABT-737 to colon cancer cells. J Cell Mol Med 2022; 27:76-88. [PMID: 36523175 PMCID: PMC9806293 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.17636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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An acidic environment and hypoxia within the tumour are hallmarks of cancer that contribute to cell resistance to therapy. Deregulation of the PI3K/Akt pathway is common in colon cancer. Numerous Akt-targeted therapies are being developed, the activity of Akt-inhibitors is, however, strongly pH-dependent. Combination therapy thus represents an opportunity to increase their efficacy. In this study, the cytotoxicity of the Akt inhibitor perifosine and the Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor ABT-737 was tested in colon cancer HT-29 and HCT-116 cells cultured in monolayer or in the form of spheroids. The efficacy of single drugs and their combination was analysed in different tumour-specific environments including acidosis and hypoxia using a series of viability assays. Changes in protein content and distribution were determined by immunoblotting and a "peeling analysis" of immunohistochemical signals. While the cytotoxicity of single agents was influenced by the tumour-specific microenvironment, perifosine and ABT-737 in combination synergistically induced apoptosis in cells cultured in both 2D and 3D independently on pH and oxygen level. Thus, the combined therapy of perifosine and ABT-737 could be considered as a potential treatment strategy for colon cancer.
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- Barbora Adamová
- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrnoCzech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrnoCzech Republic,International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University HospitalBrnoCzech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrnoCzech Republic,International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University HospitalBrnoCzech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrnoCzech Republic,International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University HospitalBrnoCzech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrnoCzech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrnoCzech Republic,International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University HospitalBrnoCzech Republic
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Liu Q, Zhu J, Dulberger CL, Stanley S, Wilson S, Chung ES, Wang X, Culviner P, Liu YJ, Hicks ND, Babunovic GH, Giffen SR, Aldridge BB, Garner EC, Rubin EJ, Chao MC, Fortune SM. Tuberculosis treatment failure associated with evolution of antibiotic resilience. Science 2022; 378:1111-1118. [PMID: 36480634 PMCID: PMC9968493 DOI: 10.1126/science.abq2787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The widespread use of antibiotics has placed bacterial pathogens under intense pressure to evolve new survival mechanisms. Genomic analysis of 51,229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)clinical isolates has identified an essential transcriptional regulator, Rv1830, herein called resR for resilience regulator, as a frequent target of positive (adaptive) selection. resR mutants do not show canonical drug resistance or drug tolerance but instead shorten the post-antibiotic effect, meaning that they enable Mtb to resume growth after drug exposure substantially faster than wild-type strains. We refer to this phenotype as antibiotic resilience. ResR acts in a regulatory cascade with other transcription factors controlling cell growth and division, which are also under positive selection in clinical isolates of Mtb. Mutations of these genes are associated with treatment failure and the acquisition of canonical drug resistance.
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- Qingyun Liu
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,Corresponding author.
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Alffenaar JWC, de Steenwinkel JEM, Diacon AH, Simonsson USH, Srivastava S, Wicha SG. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-tuberculosis drugs: An evaluation of in vitro, in vivo methodologies and human studies. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:1063453. [PMID: 36569287 PMCID: PMC9780293 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1063453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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There has been an increased interest in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD) of anti-tuberculosis drugs. A better understanding of the relationship between drug exposure, antimicrobial kill and acquired drug resistance is essential not only to optimize current treatment regimens but also to design appropriately dosed regimens with new anti-tuberculosis drugs. Although the interest in PKPD has resulted in an increased number of studies, the actual bench-to-bedside translation is somewhat limited. One of the reasons could be differences in methodologies and outcome assessments that makes it difficult to compare the studies. In this paper we summarize most relevant in vitro, in vivo, in silico and human PKPD studies performed to optimize the drug dose and regimens for treatment of tuberculosis. The in vitro assessment focuses on MIC determination, static time-kill kinetics, and dynamic hollow fibre infection models to investigate acquisition of resistance and killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations in various metabolic states. The in vivo assessment focuses on the various animal models, routes of infection, PK at the site of infection, PD read-outs, biomarkers and differences in treatment outcome evaluation (relapse and death). For human PKPD we focus on early bactericidal activity studies and inclusion of PK and therapeutic drug monitoring in clinical trials. Modelling and simulation approaches that are used to evaluate and link the different data types will be discussed. We also describe the concept of different studies, study design, importance of uniform reporting including microbiological and clinical outcome assessments, and modelling approaches. We aim to encourage researchers to consider methods of assessing and reporting PKPD of anti-tuberculosis drugs when designing studies. This will improve appropriate comparison between studies and accelerate the progress in the field.
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- Jan-Willem C. Alffenaar
- Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia,School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia,Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia,*Correspondence: Jan-Willem C. Alffenaar,
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- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Zhou L, Wu B, Huang F, Liu Z, Wang F, Zhang M, Chen B, Chen S, Wang X, Zhao Y. Drug resistance patterns and dynamics of tuberculosis in Zhejiang Province, China: Results from five periodic longitudinal surveys. Front Public Health 2022; 10:1047659. [PMID: 36523585 PMCID: PMC9745021 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1047659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background As one of the high multi-drug resistance tuberculosis countries, it is critical for China to understand patterns of drug resistance to better formulate effective treatment regimens. Methods The anti-TB Drug resistance surveillance has been conducted in Zheijang Province in years 1999, 2004, 2008, 2013, and 2018 respectively. We compared the prevalence of DR-TB from the latest survey with that of the previous four surveys in terms of all four first-line anti-TB drugs. We also examined the prevalence of rifampin-resistant TB (RR-TB) between the last two surveys and routine surveillance data. Results Among 996 patients surveyed in 2018, the prevalence of RR-TB in new and previously treated TB cases was 2.5 and 4.3%, respectively. The prevalence of RR-TB among previously treated cases was much higher than for new cases in the four surveys from 1999 to 2013, while there was no significant difference between these groups in the 2018 survey. The percentage of TB cases resistant to fluoroquinolones in new patients was 3.8%. The prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria increased over time; the prevalence of RR-TB among new cases slowly decreased. The prevalence of RR-TB in both new and previously treated TB cases from the latest two surveys was consistent with routine surveillance data. Conclusions This consistency between routine surveillance and periodic surveys for TB cases implies that with universal testing in Zhejiang Province, data from routine surveillance could be used instead of periodic surveys to improve access to timely and appropriate treatment for DR-TB. Levels of resistance were lower than whole-country and global estimates, further indicating the value of universal drug susceptibility testing.
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- Lin Zhou
- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- National Center for TB control and prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China,*Correspondence: Songhua Chen
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- Provincial Center for TB control and prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China,Xiaomeng Wang
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- National Center for TB control and prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China,Yanlin Zhao
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Vashakidze SA, Chandrakumaran A, Japaridze M, Gogishvili G, Collins JM, Rekhviashvili M, Kempker RR. A case report of persistent drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis after treatment completion. BMC Infect Dis 2022; 22:864. [PMID: 36401164 PMCID: PMC9675100 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-022-07836-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has been found to persist within cavities in patients who have completed their anti-tuberculosis therapy. The clinical implications of Mtb persistence after therapy include recurrence of disease and destructive changes within the lungs. Data on residual changes in patients who completed anti-tuberculosis therapy are scarce. This case highlights the radiological and pathological changes that persist after anti-tuberculosis therapy completion and the importance of achieving sterilization of cavities in order to prevent these changes. Case presentation This is a case report of a 33 year old female with drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis who despite successfully completing standard 6-month treatment had persistent changes in her lungs on radiological imaging. The patient underwent multiple adjunctive surgeries to resect cavitary lesions, which were culture positive for Mtb. After surgical treatment, the patient’s chest radiographies improved, symptoms subsided, and she was given a definition of cure. Conclusions Medical therapy alone, in the presence of severe cavitary lung lesions may not be able to achieve sterilizing cure in all cases. Cavities can not only cause reactivation but also drive inflammatory changes and subsequent lung damage leading to airflow obstruction, bronchiectasis, and fibrosis. Surgical removal of these foci of bacilli can be an effective adjunctive treatment necessary for a sterilizing cure and improved long term lung health.
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- Sergo A. Vashakidze
- grid.500650.60000 0004 4674 8591Thoracic Surgery Department, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 50 Maruashvili, 0101 Tbilisi, Georgia ,grid.264978.60000 0000 9564 9822The University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- grid.500650.60000 0004 4674 8591Thoracic Surgery Department, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 50 Maruashvili, 0101 Tbilisi, Georgia
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- grid.500650.60000 0004 4674 8591Thoracic Surgery Department, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 50 Maruashvili, 0101 Tbilisi, Georgia
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- grid.189967.80000 0001 0941 6502Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA USA
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- grid.500650.60000 0004 4674 8591Thoracic Surgery Department, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 50 Maruashvili, 0101 Tbilisi, Georgia
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- grid.189967.80000 0001 0941 6502Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA USA
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Gouws AC, Kruger HG, Gheysens O, Zeevaart JR, Govender T, Naicker T, Ebenhan T. Antibiotic-Derived Radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography: Nuclear or "Unclear" Infection Imaging? Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202204955. [PMID: 35834311 PMCID: PMC9826354 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202204955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The excellent features of non-invasive molecular imaging, its progressive technology (real-time, whole-body imaging and quantification), and global impact by a growing infrastructure for positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are encouraging prospects to investigate new concepts, which could transform clinical care of complex infectious diseases. Researchers are aiming towards the extension beyond the routinely available radiopharmaceuticals and are looking for more effective tools that interact directly with causative pathogens. We reviewed and critically evaluated (challenges or pitfalls) antibiotic-derived PET radiopharmaceutical development efforts aimed at infection imaging. We considered both radiotracer development for infection imaging and radio-antibiotic PET imaging supplementing other tools for pharmacologic drug characterization; overall, a total of 20 original PET radiotracers derived from eleven approved antibiotics.
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- Arno Christiaan Gouws
- Catalysis and Peptide Research UnitUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalDurban4000South Africa
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- Department of Nuclear MedicineCliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, and Institute of Clinical and Experimental ResearchUniversité Catholique de LouvainBrusselsBelgium
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- Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure NPCPretoria0001South Africa
- RadiochemistryThe South African Nuclear Energy CorporationBrits0420South Africa
- Preclinical Drug Development PlatformNorth West UniversityPotchefstroom2520South Africa
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- Catalysis and Peptide Research UnitUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalDurban4000South Africa
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- Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure NPCPretoria0001South Africa
- Preclinical Drug Development PlatformNorth West UniversityPotchefstroom2520South Africa
- Department of Nuclear MedicineUniversity of PretoriaPretoria0001South Africa
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Brown TS, Robinson DA, Buckee CO, Mathema B. Connecting the dots: understanding how human mobility shapes TB epidemics. Trends Microbiol 2022; 30:1036-1044. [PMID: 35597716 PMCID: PMC10068677 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 04/18/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading infectious cause of death worldwide. Reducing TB infections and TB-related deaths rests ultimately on stopping forward transmission from infectious to susceptible individuals. Critical to this effort is understanding how human host mobility shapes the transmission and dispersal of new or existing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Important questions remain unanswered. What kinds of mobility, over what temporal and spatial scales, facilitate TB transmission? How do human mobility patterns influence the dispersal of novel Mtb strains, including emergent drug-resistant strains? This review summarizes the current state of knowledge on mobility and TB epidemic dynamics, using examples from three topic areas, including inference of genetic and spatial clustering of infections, delineating source-sink dynamics, and mapping the dispersal of novel TB strains, to examine scientific questions and methodological issues within this topic. We also review new data sources for measuring human mobility, including mobile phone-associated movement data, and discuss important limitations on their use in TB epidemiology.
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- Tyler S Brown
- Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Infectious Diseases Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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Deshpande D, Srivastava S, Pasipanodya JG, Gumbo T. Minocycline intra-bacterial pharmacokinetic hysteresis as a basis for pharmacologic memory and a backbone for once-a-week pan-tuberculosis therapy. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:1024608. [PMID: 36330086 PMCID: PMC9622937 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1024608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background: There is need for shorter duration regimens for the treatment of tuberculosis, that can treat patients regardless of multidrug resistance status (pan-tuberculosis). Methods: We combined minocycline with tedizolid, moxifloxacin, and rifampin, in the hollow fiber system model of tuberculosis and mimicked each drugs’ intrapulmonary pharmacokinetics for 28 days. Minocycline-tedizolid was administered either as a once-a-week or a daily regimen. In order to explore a possible explanation for effectiveness of the once-a-week regimen, we measured systemic and intra-bacterial minocycline pharmacokinetics. Standard daily therapy (rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide) was the comparator. We then calculated γf or kill slopes for each regimen and ranked the regimens by time-to-extinction predicted in patients. Results: The steepest γf and shortest time-to-extinction of entire bacterial population was with daily minocycline-rifampin combination. There was no difference in γf between the minocycline-tedizolid once-a-week versus the daily therapy (p = 0.85). Standard therapy was predicted to cure 88% of patients, while minocycline-rifampin would cure 98% of patients. Minocycline concentrations fell below minimum inhibitory concentration after 2 days of once-weekly dosing schedule. The shape of minocycline intra-bacterial concentration-time curve differed from the extracellular pharmacokinetic system and lagged by several days, consistent with system hysteresis. Hysteresis explained the persistent microbial killing after hollow fiber system model of tuberculosis concentrations dropped below the minimum inhibitory concentration. Conclusion: Minocycline could form a backbone of a shorter duration once-a-week pan-tuberculosis regimen. We propose a new concept of post-antibiotic microbial killing, distinct from post-antibiotic effect. We propose system hysteresis as the basis for the novel concept of pharmacologic memory, which allows intermittent dosing.
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- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States
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- Quantitative Preclinical and Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc, Dallas, TX, United States
- Hollow Fiber System and Experimental Therapeutics Laboratories, Praedicare Inc., Dallas, TX, United States
- *Correspondence: Tawanda Gumbo,
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Nimmo C, Millard J, Faulkner V, Monteserin J, Pugh H, Johnson EO. Evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance in the genomic era. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:954074. [PMID: 36275027 PMCID: PMC9585206 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.954074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis has acquired drug resistance to all drugs that have been used against it, including those only recently introduced into clinical practice. Compared to other bacteria, it has a well conserved genome due to its role as an obligate human pathogen that has adapted to a niche over five to ten thousand years. These features facilitate reconstruction and dating of M. tuberculosis phylogenies, giving key insights into how resistance has been acquired and spread globally. Resistance to each new drug has occurred within five to ten years of clinical use and has occurred even more rapidly with recently introduced drugs. In most cases, resistance-conferring mutations come with a fitness cost, but this can be overcome by compensatory mutations which restore fitness to that of wild-type bacteria. It is likely that M. tuberculosis acquires drug resistance while maintaining limited genomic variability due the generation of low frequency within-host variation, combined with ongoing purifying selection causing loss of variants without a clear fitness advantage. However, variants that do confer an advantage, such as drug resistance, can increase in prevalence amongst all bacteria within a host and become the dominant clone. These resistant strains can then be transmitted leading to primary drug resistant infection in a new host. As many countries move towards genomic methods for diagnosis of M. tuberculosis infection and drug resistance, it is important to be aware of the implications for the evolution of resistance. Currently, understanding of resistance-conferring mutations is incomplete, and some targeted genetic diagnostics create their own selective pressures. We discuss an example where a rifampicin resistance-conferring mutation which was not routinely covered by standard testing became dominant. Finally, resistance to new drugs such as bedaquiline and delamanid is caused by individually rare mutations occurring across a large mutational genomic target that have been detected over a short time, and do not provide statistical power for genotype-phenotype correlation – in contrast to longer-established drugs that form the backbone of drug-sensitive antituberculosis therapy. Therefore, we need a different approach to identify resistance-conferring mutations of new drugs before their resistance becomes widespread, abrogating their usefulness.
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- Camus Nimmo
- Systems Chemical Biology of Infection and Resistance Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Camus Nimmo,
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- Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Systems Chemical Biology of Infection and Resistance Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Systems Chemical Biology of Infection and Resistance Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Systems Chemical Biology of Infection and Resistance Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Systems Chemical Biology of Infection and Resistance Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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Zhang Y, Jiang Y, Yu C, Li J, Shen X, Pan Q, Shen X. Whole-genome sequencing for surveillance of fluoroquinolone resistance in rifampicin-susceptible tuberculosis in a rural district of Shanghai: A 10-year retrospective study. Front Public Health 2022; 10:990894. [PMID: 36187694 PMCID: PMC9521709 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.990894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Background Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are the most important second-line anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) drugs, primarily used for the treatment of multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB). However, FQs are also commonly used to treat other bacterial infections. There are few published data on the rates of FQ resistance among rifampicin-susceptible TB. Methods We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to determine the prevalence of FQ resistance among rifampicin-susceptible TB in a rural district of Shanghai. This was a population-based retrospective study of all culture-positive pulmonary TB patients diagnosed in the Chongming district of Shanghai, China during 2009-2018. Results The rate of FQ resistance was 8.4% (29/345) among TB, 6.2% (20/324) among rifampicin-susceptible TB, and 42.9% (9/21) among MDR/RR-TB. Transmission of FQ-resistant strains was defined as strains differing within 12 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) based on WGS. Among the rifampicin-susceptible TB, 20% (4/20) of FQ resistance was caused by the transmission of FQ-resistant strains and 45% (9/20) of FQ resistance was identified as hetero-resistance. Conclusions The prevalence of FQ resistance in rifampicin-susceptible TB was higher than expected in Shanghai. Both the transmission and the selection of drug-resistant strains drive the emergence of FQ resistance in rifampicin-susceptible TB isolates. Therefore, the WGS-based surveillance system for TB should be urgently established and the clinical awareness of the rational use of FQs for respiratory infections should be enhanced to prevent the premature occurrence of FQ resistance.
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- Yangyi Zhang
- Division of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China,Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China,Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China,Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China,Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China,Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China,Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China,Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China,Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, China,*Correspondence: Xin Shen
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Gouws AC, Kruger HG, Gheysens O, Zeevaart JR, Govender T, Naiker T, Ebenhan T. Antibiotic‐Derived Radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography: Nuclear or ‘Unclear’ Infection Imaging? Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202204955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Arno Christiaan Gouws
- University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Health Sciences Catalysis and Peptide Research Unit SOUTH AFRICA
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- University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Health Sciences Catalysis and Peptide Research Unit SOUTH AFRICA
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- Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Department of Nuclear Medicine BELGIUM
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- North-West University Potchefstroom Campus: North-West University Preclinical Drug Development Platform SOUTH AFRICA
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- University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Health Sciences Catalysis and Peptide Research Unit SOUTH AFRICA
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- University of Pretoria Nuclear Medicine Steve Biko and Malherbe St 0001 Pretoria SOUTH AFRICA
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Martini MC, Hicks ND, Xiao J, Alonso MN, Barbier T, Sixsmith J, Fortune SM, Shell SS. Loss of RNase J leads to multi-drug tolerance and accumulation of highly structured mRNA fragments in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS Pathog 2022; 18:e1010705. [PMID: 35830479 PMCID: PMC9312406 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Despite the existence of well-characterized, canonical mutations that confer high-level drug resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), there is evidence that drug resistance mechanisms are more complex than simple acquisition of such mutations. Recent studies have shown that Mtb can acquire non-canonical resistance-associated mutations that confer survival advantages in the presence of certain drugs, likely acting as stepping-stones for acquisition of high-level resistance. Rv2752c/rnj, encoding RNase J, is disproportionately mutated in drug-resistant clinical Mtb isolates. Here we show that deletion of rnj confers increased tolerance to lethal concentrations of several drugs. RNAseq revealed that RNase J affects expression of a subset of genes enriched for PE/PPE genes and stable RNAs and is key for proper 23S rRNA maturation. Gene expression differences implicated two sRNAs and ppe50-ppe51 as important contributors to the drug tolerance phenotype. In addition, we found that in the absence of RNase J, many short RNA fragments accumulate because they are degraded at slower rates. We show that the accumulated transcript fragments are targets of RNase J and are characterized by strong secondary structure and high G+C content, indicating that RNase J has a rate-limiting role in degradation of highly structured RNAs. Taken together, our results demonstrate that RNase J indirectly affects drug tolerance, as well as reveal the endogenous roles of RNase J in mycobacterial RNA metabolism.
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- Maria Carla Martini
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (SMF); (SSS)
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (SMF); (SSS)
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Alffenaar JWC, Stocker SL, Forsman LD, Garcia-Prats A, Heysell SK, Aarnoutse RE, Akkerman OW, Aleksa A, van Altena R, de Oñata WA, Bhavani PK, Van't Boveneind-Vrubleuskaya N, Carvalho ACC, Centis R, Chakaya JM, Cirillo DM, Cho JG, D Ambrosio L, Dalcolmo MP, Denti P, Dheda K, Fox GJ, Hesseling AC, Kim HY, Köser CU, Marais BJ, Margineanu I, Märtson AG, Torrico MM, Nataprawira HM, Ong CWM, Otto-Knapp R, Peloquin CA, Silva DR, Ruslami R, Santoso P, Savic RM, Singla R, Svensson EM, Skrahina A, van Soolingen D, Srivastava S, Tadolini M, Tiberi S, Thomas TA, Udwadia ZF, Vu DH, Zhang W, Mpagama SG, Schön T, Migliori GB. Clinical standards for the dosing and management of TB drugs. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2022; 26:483-499. [PMID: 35650702 PMCID: PMC9165737 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: Optimal drug dosing is important to ensure adequate response to treatment, prevent development of drug resistance and reduce drug toxicity. The aim of these clinical standards is to provide guidance on 'best practice´ for dosing and management of TB drugs.METHODS: A panel of 57 global experts in the fields of microbiology, pharmacology and TB care were identified; 51 participated in a Delphi process. A 5-point Likert scale was used to score draft standards. The final document represents the broad consensus and was approved by all participants.RESULTS: Six clinical standards were defined: Standard 1, defining the most appropriate initial dose for TB treatment; Standard 2, identifying patients who may be at risk of sub-optimal drug exposure; Standard 3, identifying patients at risk of developing drug-related toxicity and how best to manage this risk; Standard 4, identifying patients who can benefit from therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM); Standard 5, highlighting education and counselling that should be provided to people initiating TB treatment; and Standard 6, providing essential education for healthcare professionals. In addition, consensus research priorities were identified.CONCLUSION: This is the first consensus-based Clinical Standards for the dosing and management of TB drugs to guide clinicians and programme managers in planning and implementation of locally appropriate measures for optimal person-centred treatment to improve patient care.
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- J W C Alffenaar
- Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, St Vincent´s Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia, St Vincent´s Clinical Campus, University of NSW, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden
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- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences & Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis, Groningen, The Netherlands, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Tuberculosis Center Beatrixoord, Haren, The Netherlands
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- Educational Institution "Grodno State Medical University", Grodno, Belarus
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- Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN) and Medical Action Myanmar (MAM) in Yangon, Myanmar
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- Belgian Scientific Institute for Public Health (Belgian Lung and Tuberculosis Association), Brussels, Belgium
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- Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Public Health TB Control, Metropolitan Public Health Services, The Hague, The Netherlands
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- Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias, Ensino e Bioprodutos (LITEB), Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Tradate, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Therapeutics and Dermatology, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Parramatta Chest Clinic, Parramatta, NSW, Australia
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- Public Health Consulting Group, Lugano, Switzerland
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- Reference Center Hélio Fraga, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, University of Cape Town Lung Institute & South African MRC Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infection, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Glebe, NSW, Australia
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- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa
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- Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Children´s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Clínica de Tuberculosis, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Division of Paediatric Respirology, Department of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia
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- Infectious Disease Translational Research Programme, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore
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- German Central Committee against Tuberculosis (DZK), Berlin, Germany
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- Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics Laboratory, Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- TB/HIV Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Pharmacology and Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
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- Division of Respirology and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran/Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of TB & Respiratory Diseases, National Institute of TB & Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences & Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- The Republican Research and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and TB, Minsk, Belarus
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, TB Reference Laboratory (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pulmonary Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- National Drug Information and Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Centre, Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Biosafety Emergency Response, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, People´s Republic of China
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- Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, United Republic of Tanzania, Kibong´oto Infectious Diseases Hospital, Sanya Juu, Siha, Kilimanjaro, United Republic of Tanzania
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Infection and Inflammation, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Tradate, Italy
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Lopez-Varela E, Abulfathi AA, Strydom N, Goussard P, van Wyk AC, Demers AM, Deventer AV, Garcia-Prats AJ, van der Merwe J, Zimmerman M, Carter CL, Janson J, Morrison J, Reuter H, Decloedt EH, Seddon JA, Svensson EM, Warren R, Savic RM, Dartois V, Hesseling AC. Drug concentration at the site of disease in children with pulmonary tuberculosis. J Antimicrob Chemother 2022; 77:1710-1719. [PMID: 35468189 PMCID: PMC9155609 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkac103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Current TB treatment for children is not optimized to provide adequate drug levels in TB lesions. Dose optimization of first-line antituberculosis drugs to increase exposure at the site of disease could facilitate more optimal treatment and future treatment-shortening strategies across the disease spectrum in children with pulmonary TB. OBJECTIVES To determine the concentrations of first-line antituberculosis drugs at the site of disease in children with intrathoracic TB. METHODS We quantified drug concentrations in tissue samples from 13 children, median age 8.6 months, with complicated forms of pulmonary TB requiring bronchoscopy or transthoracic surgical lymph node decompression in a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Pharmacokinetic models were used to describe drug penetration characteristics and to simulate concentration profiles for bronchoalveolar lavage, homogenized lymph nodes, and cellular and necrotic lymph node lesions. RESULTS Isoniazid, rifampicin and pyrazinamide showed lower penetration in most lymph node areas compared with plasma, while ethambutol accumulated in tissue. None of the drugs studied was able to reach target concentration in necrotic lesions. CONCLUSIONS Despite similar penetration characteristics compared with adults, low plasma exposures in children led to low site of disease exposures for all drugs except for isoniazid.
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- Elisa Lopez-Varela
- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
- ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic - Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Corresponding author: E-mail:
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
- Center for Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Orlando, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94158, USA
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Anatomical Pathology, Tygerberg Hospital, National Health Laboratory Service, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
- Service de microbiologie, Département clinique de médecine de laboratoire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada
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- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey, USA, and Department of Medical Sciences, Hackensack School of Medicine, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
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- Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey, USA, and Department of Medical Sciences, Hackensack School of Medicine, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
- Department of Pathology, Hackensack School of Medicine, Nutley, New Jersey 07110, USA
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- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research/South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94158, USA
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- Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey, USA, and Department of Medical Sciences, Hackensack School of Medicine, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
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- Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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Mehta HH, Ibarra D, Marx CJ, Miller CR, Shamoo Y. Mutational Switch-Backs Can Accelerate Evolution of Francisella to a Combination of Ciprofloxacin and Doxycycline. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:904822. [PMID: 35615518 PMCID: PMC9125183 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.904822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Combination antimicrobial therapy has been considered a promising strategy to combat the evolution of antimicrobial resistance. Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia and in addition to being found in the nature, is recognized as a threat agent that requires vigilance. We investigated the evolutionary outcome of adapting the Live Vaccine Strain (LVS) of F. tularensis subsp. holarctica to two non-interacting drugs, ciprofloxacin and doxycycline, individually, sequentially, and in combination. Despite their individual efficacies and independence of mechanisms, evolution to the combination arose on a shorter time scale than evolution to the two drugs sequentially. We conducted a longitudinal mutational analysis of the populations evolving to the drug combination, genetically reconstructed the identified evolutionary pathway, and carried out biochemical validation. We discovered that, after the appearance of an initial weak generalist mutation (FupA/B), each successive mutation alternated between adaptation to one drug or the other. In combination, these mutations allowed the population to more efficiently ascend the fitness peak through a series of evolutionary switch-backs. Clonal interference, weak pleiotropy, and positive epistasis also contributed to combinatorial evolution. This finding suggests that the use of this non-interacting drug pair against F. tularensis may render both drugs ineffective because of mutational switch-backs that accelerate evolution of dual resistance.
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- Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
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- Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
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Multiscale Model of Antiviral Timing, Potency, and Heterogeneity Effects on an Epithelial Tissue Patch Infected by SARS-CoV-2. Viruses 2022; 14:v14030605. [PMID: 35337012 PMCID: PMC8953050 DOI: 10.3390/v14030605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We extend our established agent-based multiscale computational model of infection of lung tissue by SARS-CoV-2 to include pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models of remdesivir. We model remdesivir treatment for COVID-19; however, our methods are general to other viral infections and antiviral therapies. We investigate the effects of drug potency, drug dosing frequency, treatment initiation delay, antiviral half-life, and variability in cellular uptake and metabolism of remdesivir and its active metabolite on treatment outcomes in a simulated patch of infected epithelial tissue. Non-spatial deterministic population models which treat all cells of a given class as identical can clarify how treatment dosage and timing influence treatment efficacy. However, they do not reveal how cell-to-cell variability affects treatment outcomes. Our simulations suggest that for a given treatment regime, including cell-to-cell variation in drug uptake, permeability and metabolism increase the likelihood of uncontrolled infection as the cells with the lowest internal levels of antiviral act as super-spreaders within the tissue. The model predicts substantial variability in infection outcomes between similar tissue patches for different treatment options. In models with cellular metabolic variability, antiviral doses have to be increased significantly (>50% depending on simulation parameters) to achieve the same treatment results as with the homogeneous cellular metabolism.
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Drug Sensitivity of Vaccine-Derived Rubella Viruses and Quasispecies Evolution in Granulomatous Lesions of Two Ataxia-Telangiectasia Patients Treated with Nitazoxanide. Pathogens 2022; 11:pathogens11030338. [PMID: 35335662 PMCID: PMC8955873 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11030338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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A strong association between rubella virus (RuV) and chronic granulomas, in individuals with inborn errors of immunity, has been recently established. Both the RA27/3 vaccine and wild-type RuV strains were highly sensitive to a broad-spectrum antiviral drug, nitazoxanide (NTZ), in vitro. However, NTZ treatment, used as a salvage therapy, resulted in little or no improvements of RuV-associated cutaneous granulomas in patients. Here, we report investigations of possible causes of treatment failures in two ataxia-telangiectasia patients. Although a reduction in RuV RNA in skin lesions was detected by real-time RT-PCR, live immunodeficiency-related vaccine-derived rubella viruses (iVDRV) were recovered from granulomas, before and after the treatments. Tizoxanide, an active NTZ metabolite, inhibited replications of all iVDRVs in cultured A549 cells, but the 50% and 90% inhibitory concentrations were 10–40 times higher than those for the RA27/3 strain. There were no substantial differences in iVDRV sensitivities, neither before nor after treatments. Analysis of quasispecies in the E1 gene, a suspected NTZ target, showed no effect of NTZ treatments on quasispecies’ complexity in lesions. Thus, failures of NTZ therapies were likely due to low sensitivities of iVDRVs to the drug, and not related to the emergence of resistance, following long-term NTZ treatments.
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Udwadia ZF, Patel PP, Sharma S, Gupta A, Tornheim JA. Empiric Addition of Quinolones to First-Line Tuberculosis Treatment Is Associated With Increased Odds of XDR-TB. FRONTIERS IN TROPICAL DISEASES 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fitd.2022.779084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BackgroundMultidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents a significant clinical and public health challenge worldwide. Out of concern for possible resistance, some providers prescribe first- and second-line tuberculosis treatment together before completing drug susceptibility testing (DST), which may increase emergent resistance.MethodsMDR-TB patients at an Indian referral center were enrolled in an observational cohort. Participants with drug susceptibility test (DST) results were categorized as prescribed fluoroquinolones, streptomycin, both, or neither with first-line treatment before DST. Odds of additional resistance to fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides (XDR-TB) were calculated in association with empiric combined first- and second-line treatment before DST.ResultsOf 494 participants, 130 (26.3%) received a fluoroquinolone or streptomycin with first-line drugs before DST. Odds of XDR-TB were associated with fluoroquinolone prescription before DST [odds ratio (OR): 2.19, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.26–3.76). The association with XDR-TB persisted in multivariable analysis (adjusted OR: 2.43, 95% CI: 1.19-4.91). Combined empiric first- and second-line treatment before DST was not associated with eventual outcomes.ConclusionMany participants received empiric combined first- and second-line drugs before DST, which was associated with XDR-TB. To minimize emerging resistance, treatment-associated side effects, and provide the best possible care, this approach should be discouraged in favor of early DST and DST-guided TB treatment.
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Chapagain M, Pasipanodya JG, Athale S, Bernal C, Trammell R, Howe D, Gumbo T. OUP accepted manuscript. J Antimicrob Chemother 2022; 77:1694-1705. [PMID: 35257162 PMCID: PMC9155607 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkac068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Objectives The standard of care (SOC) for the treatment of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease (clarithromycin, rifabutin, and ethambutol) achieves sustained sputum conversion rates of only 54%. Thus, new treatments should be prioritized. Methods We identified the omadacycline MIC against one laboratory MAC strain and calculated drug half life in solution, which we compared with measured MAC doubling times. Next, we performed an omadacycline hollow fibre system model of intracellular MAC (HFS-MAC) exposure–effect study, as well as the three-drug SOC, using pharmacokinetics achieved in patient lung lesions. Data was analysed using bacterial kill slopes (γ-slopes) and inhibitory sigmoid Emax bacterial burden versus exposure analyses. Monte Carlo experiments (MCE) were used to identify the optimal omadacycline clinical dose. Results Omadacycline concentration declined in solution with a half-life of 27.7 h versus a MAC doubling time of 16.3 h, leading to artefactually high MICs. Exposures mediating 80% of maximal effect changed up to 8-fold depending on sampling day with bacterial burden versus exposure analyses, while γ-slope-based analyses gave a single robust estimate. The highest omadacycline monotherapy γ-slope was −0.114 (95% CI: −0.141 to −0.087) (r2 = 0.98) versus −0.114 (95% CI: −0.133 to −0.094) (r2 = 0.99) with the SOC. MCEs demonstrated that 450 mg of omadacycline given orally on the first 2 days followed by 300 mg daily would achieve the AUC0-24 target of 39.67 mg·h/L. Conclusions Omadacycline may be a potential treatment option for pulmonary MAC, possibly as a back-bone treatment for a new MAC regimen and warrants future study in treatment of this disease.
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- Moti Chapagain
- Hollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Quantitative Preclinical & Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Hollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Praedicare Chemistry, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Praedicare Chemistry, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Hollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Quantitative Preclinical & Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Praedicare Chemistry, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Hollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Quantitative Preclinical & Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Corresponding author. E-mail:
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Gordon O, Lee DE, Liu B, Langevin B, Ordonez AA, Dikeman DA, Shafiq B, Thompson JM, Sponseller PD, Flavahan K, Lodge MA, Rowe SP, Dannals RF, Ruiz-Bedoya CA, Read TD, Peloquin CA, Archer NK, Miller LS, Davis KM, Gobburu JVS, Jain SK. Dynamic PET-facilitated modeling and high-dose rifampin regimens for Staphylococcus aureus orthopedic implant-associated infections. Sci Transl Med 2021; 13:eabl6851. [PMID: 34851697 PMCID: PMC8693472 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abl6851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen causing serious implant–associated infections. Combination treatment with rifampin (10 to 15 mg/kg per day), which has dose-dependent activity, is recommended to treat S. aureus orthopedic implant–associated infections. Rifampin, however, has limited bone penetration. Here, dynamic 11C-rifampin positron emission tomography (PET) performed in prospectively enrolled patients with confirmed S. aureus bone infection (n = 3) or without orthopedic infection (n = 12) demonstrated bone/plasma area under the concentration-time curve ratio of 0.14 (interquartile range, 0.09 to 0.19), exposures lower than previously thought. PET-based pharmacokinetic modeling predicted rifampin concentration-time profiles in bone and facilitated studies in a mouse model of S. aureus orthopedic implant infection. Administration of high-dose rifampin (human equipotent to 35 mg/kg per day) substantially increased bone concentrations (2 mg/liter versus <0.2 mg/liter with standard dosing) in mice and achieved higher bacterial killing and biofilm disruption. Treatment for 4 weeks with high-dose rifampin and vancomycin was noninferior to the recommended 6-week treatment of standard-dose rifampin with vancomycin in mice (risk difference, −6.7% favoring high-dose rifampin regimen). High-dose rifampin treatment ameliorated antimicrobial resistance (0% versus 38%; P = 0.04) and mitigated adverse bone remodeling (P < 0.01). Last, whole-genome sequencing demonstrated that administration of high-dose rifampin in mice reduced selection of bacterial mutations conferring rifampin resistance (rpoB) and mutations in genes potentially linked to persistence. These data suggest that administration of high-dose rifampin is necessary to achieve optimal bone concentrations, which could shorten and improve treatments for S. aureus orthopedic implant infections.
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- Oren Gordon
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Center for Translational Medicine, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Center for Translational Medicine, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics Laboratory, Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Immunology, Janssen Research and Development, Spring House, PA 19477, USA
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- W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Center for Translational Medicine, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Consequential drug combinations for tuberculosis treatments. Cell Syst 2021; 12:1021-1022. [PMID: 34793699 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2021.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Improved therapies for tuberculosis will require the careful revision of complex, multi-drug regimens. In this issue of Cell Systems, Larkins-Ford et al. integrate extensive dose-response measurements of drug combinations, in vivo animal data, and computational analysis to provide a new predictive framework for the prioritization of specific antitubercular drug regimens.
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Pasipanodya JG, Gumbo T. The Relationship Between Drug Concentration in Tuberculosis Lesions, Epithelial Lining Fluid, and Clinical Outcomes. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 73:e3374-e3376. [PMID: 32857152 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Praedicare Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa
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McCallum AD, Pertinez HE, Else LJ, Dilly-Penchala S, Chirambo AP, Sheha I, Chasweka M, Chitani A, Malamba RD, Meghji JZ, Gordon SB, Davies GR, Khoo SH, Sloan DJ, Mwandumba HC. Intrapulmonary Pharmacokinetics of First-line Anti-tuberculosis Drugs in Malawian Patients With Tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 73:e3365-e3373. [PMID: 32856694 PMCID: PMC8563277 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Further work is required to understand the intrapulmonary pharmacokinetics of first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs. This study aimed to describe the plasma and intrapulmonary pharmacokinetics of rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol, and explore relationships with clinical treatment outcomes in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS Malawian adults with a first presentation of microbiologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis received standard 6-month first-line therapy. Plasma and intrapulmonary samples were collected 8 and 16 weeks into treatment and drug concentrations measured in plasma, lung/airway epithelial lining fluid (ELF), and alveolar cells. Population pharmacokinetic modeling generated estimates of drug exposure (Cmax and AUC) from individual-level post hoc Bayesian estimates of plasma and intrapulmonary pharmacokinetics. RESULTS One-hundred fifty-seven patients (58% HIV coinfected) participated. Despite standard weight-based dosing, peak plasma concentrations of first-line drugs were below therapeutic drug-monitoring targets. Rifampicin concentrations were low in all 3 compartments. Isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol achieved higher concentrations in ELF and alveolar cells than plasma. Isoniazid and pyrazinamide concentrations were 14.6-fold (95% CI, 11.2-18.0-fold) and 49.8-fold (95% CI, 34.2-65.3-fold) higher in ELF than plasma, respectively. Ethambutol concentrations were highest in alveolar cells (alveolar cell-plasma ratio, 15.0; 95% CI, 11.4-18.6). Plasma or intrapulmonary pharmacokinetics did not predict clinical treatment response. CONCLUSIONS We report differential drug concentrations between plasma and the lung. While plasma concentrations were below therapeutic monitoring targets, accumulation of drugs at the site of disease may explain the success of the first-line regimen. The low rifampicin concentrations observed in all compartments lend strong support for ongoing clinical trials of high-dose rifampicin regimens.
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- Andrew D McCallum
- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Humphries H, Almond L, Berg A, Gardner I, Hatley O, Pan X, Small B, Zhang M, Jamei M, Romero K. Development of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models for standard of care and newer tuberculosis drugs. CPT-PHARMACOMETRICS & SYSTEMS PHARMACOLOGY 2021; 10:1382-1395. [PMID: 34623770 PMCID: PMC8592506 DOI: 10.1002/psp4.12707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health problem and there is an ongoing effort to develop more effective therapies and new combination regimes that can reduce duration of treatment. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate utility of a physiologically‐based pharmacokinetic modeling approach to predict plasma and lung concentrations of 11 compounds used or under development as TB therapies (bedaquiline [and N‐desmethyl bedaquiline], clofazimine, cycloserine, ethambutol, ethionamide, isoniazid, kanamycin, linezolid, pyrazinamide, rifampicin, and rifapentine). Model accuracy was assessed by comparison of simulated plasma pharmacokinetic parameters with healthy volunteer data for compounds administered alone or in combination. Eighty‐four percent (area under the curve [AUC]) and 91% (maximum concentration [Cmax]) of simulated mean values were within 1.5‐fold of the observed data and the simulated drug‐drug interaction ratios were within 1.5‐fold (AUC) and twofold (Cmax) of the observed data for nine (AUC) and eight (Cmax) of the 10 cases. Following satisfactory recovery of plasma concentrations in healthy volunteers, model accuracy was assessed further (where patients’ with TB data were available) by comparing clinical data with simulated lung concentrations (9 compounds) and simulated lung: plasma concentration ratios (7 compounds). The 5th–95th percentiles for the simulated lung concentration data recovered between 13% (isoniazid and pyrazinamide) and 88% (pyrazinamide) of the observed data points (Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 198, 2018, 1208; Nat Med, 21, 2015, 1223; PLoS Med, 16, 2019, e1002773). The impact of uncertain model parameters, such as the fraction of drug unbound in lung tissue mass (fumass), is discussed. Additionally, the variability associated with the patient lung concentration data, which was sparse and included extensive within‐subject, interlaboratory, and experimental variability (as well interindividual variability) is reviewed. All presented models are transparently documented and are available as open‐source to aid further research.
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- Certara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, UK
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- Certara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, UK
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- Certara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, UK
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- Certara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, UK
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- Certara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, UK
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- Certara UK Limited, Simcyp Division, Sheffield, UK
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Pharmacokinetics and Target Attainment of SQ109 in Plasma and Human-Like Tuberculosis Lesions in Rabbits. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2021; 65:e0002421. [PMID: 34228540 PMCID: PMC8370215 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00024-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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SQ109 is a novel well-tolerated drug candidate in clinical development for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). It is the only inhibitor of the MmpL3 mycolic acid transporter in clinical development. No SQ109-resistant mutant has been directly isolated thus far in vitro, in mice, or in patients, which is tentatively attributed to its multiple targets. It is considered a potential replacement for poorly tolerated components of multidrug-resistant TB regimens. To prioritize SQ109-containing combinations with the best potential for cure and treatment shortening, one must understand its contribution against different bacterial populations in pulmonary lesions. Here, we have characterized the pharmacokinetics of SQ109 in the rabbit model of active TB and its penetration at the sites of disease—lung tissue, cellular and necrotic lesions, and caseum. A two-compartment model with first-order absorption and elimination described the plasma pharmacokinetics. At the human-equivalent dose, parameter estimates fell within the ranges published for preclinical species. Tissue concentrations were modeled using an “effect” compartment, showing high accumulation in lung and cellular lesion areas with penetration coefficients in excess of 1,000 and lower passive diffusion in caseum after 7 daily doses. These results, together with the hydrophobic nature and high nonspecific caseum binding of SQ109, suggest that multiweek dosing would be required to reach steady state in caseum and poorly vascularized compartments, similar to bedaquiline. Linking lesion pharmacokinetics to SQ109 potency in assays against replicating, nonreplicating, and intracellular M. tuberculosis showed SQ109 concentrations markedly above pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic targets in lung and cellular lesions throughout the dosing interval.
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