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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967797203321

Autore

Vinšová Jarmila

Titolo

Development of new MDR-tuberculosis drugs / / Jarmila Vinšová and Martin Krátký

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers/Nova Biomedical, c2010

ISBN

1-61668-478-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 p.)

Collana

Pharmacology-research, safety testing and regulation

Altri autori (Persone)

KrátkýMartin <1960->

Disciplina

615.5/8

Soggetti

Antitubercular agents

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - Chemotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Resistance to commonly used drugs, mechanism of the action -- Research of novel MDR potential drugs.

Sommario/riassunto

The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, particularly of MDR-TB and newly XDR-TB, has become a major public health problem. The current treatment regiment has several disadvantages, i.e. long treatment period (DOTS takes minimum 6 months) during which tubercle bacilli mutant become resistant to one or more drugs; side effects of the used drugs; co-infection of HIV/AIDS. The emergence of MDR-TB has made many currently available anti-TB drugs ineffective. Sleeping latent forms of mutant bacilli resistant against common anti-TB drugs pose the risk of epidemic for the new generation. This book outlines the recent advances in the development of new multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) drugs.