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The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

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Several lines of evidence suggest that alternative mechanisms-including pharmacokinetic variability, induction of efflux pumps that transport the drug out of cells, and suboptimal drug penetration into tuberculosis lesions-are likely crucial to the pathogenesis of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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This article is published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 461 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bedaquiline & Delamanid.

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A standardised method for interpreting the association between mutations and phenotypic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TL;DR: This study provides a standardised and comprehensive approach for the interpretation of mutations as predictors of M. tuberculosis drug- resistant phenotypes and has implications for the clinical interpretation of molecular diagnostics and next-generation sequencing as well as efficient individualised therapy for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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Evolution of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a review on the molecular determinants of resistance and implications for personalized care

TL;DR: Advances in sequencing technology will help devise better molecular diagnostics for more effective DR-TB management enabling personalized treatment, and will facilitate the development of new drugs aimed at improving outcomes of patients with this disease.
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The antimicrobial effect of colistin methanesulfonate on Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro

TL;DR: Ulastructure analysis suggests that the disruption of the outer polysaccharide layer of MTB by CMS may lead to enhanced uptake of INH, and may provide insight for further investigations of CMS against MTB.
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New Susceptibility Breakpoints and the Regional Variability of MIC Distribution in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates

TL;DR: The data from South Africa, together with recent clinical evidence that the new breakpoints proposed are actually supported by clinical findings in the case of rifampin, mean that there no longer can be any excuses to keep the standard M. tuberculosis susceptibility breakpoints.
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Integrating pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics to predict outcomes in antibacterial therapy.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented to demonstrate that in addition to drug exposures, host genetic polymorphisms may lead to gene products that modulate microbial response to antibiotic exposure, and these data can be integrated in Monte Carlo simulations, such that antibiotic doses with the highest probability of killing the pathogen and the least probability of causing dose-related toxicity can be predicted.
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Molecular and phenotypic characterisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to anti-tuberculosis drugs.

TL;DR: Several isolates showed an association between high INH(R) levels and katG mutation; others from the Haarlem family were prone to becoming MDR-TB and continue to circulate in the community.
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