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LAPSE:2024.0250
New Alternatives in the Fight against Tuberculosis: Possible Targets for Resistant Mycobacteria
February 19, 2024
Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial disease that remains a global health threat due to the millions of deaths attributed to it each year. The emergence of drug resistance has exacerbated and further increased the challenges in the fight against this illness. Despite the preventive measures using the application of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine, the desired immunization outcome is not as high as expected. Conventional TB treatments exhibit serious limitations, such as adverse effects and prolonged duration, leading to a pressing need for alternative and more effective treatment options. Despite significant efforts, it took nearly four decades for diarylquinoline to become the most recently approved medicine for this disease. In addition, various possibilities, such as the usage of medications used for many other conditions (repurposed drugs), have been explored in order to speed up the process of achieving faster outcomes. Natural compounds derived from various sources (microorganisms, plants, and animals) have emerged as potential candidates for combating TB due to their chemical diversity and their unique modes of action. Finally, efforts towards the generation of novel vaccines have received considerable attention. The goal of this paper was to perform an analysis of the current state of treating drug-resistant TB and to evaluate possible approaches to this complicated challenge. Our focus is centered on highlighting new alternatives that can be used to combat resistant strains, which have potentiated the health crisis that TB represents.
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diarylquinolines, drug resistant TB strains, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, natural products, novel vaccine generation, repurposing drugs, treatment
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Rodríguez-Bustamante E, Gómez-Manzo S, De Obeso Fernández del Valle A, Arreguín-Espinosa R, Espitia-Pinzón C, Rodríguez-Flores E. New Alternatives in the Fight against Tuberculosis: Possible Targets for Resistant Mycobacteria. (2024). LAPSE:2024.0250
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Rodríguez-Bustamante E: Departamento de Química de Biomacromoléculas, Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico; Departamento de Bioingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849 [ORCID]
Gómez-Manzo S: Laboratorio de Bioquímica Genética, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Ciudad de México 04530, Mexico [ORCID]
De Obeso Fernández del Valle A: Departamento de Bioingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico [ORCID]
Arreguín-Espinosa R: Departamento de Química de Biomacromoléculas, Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico [ORCID]
Espitia-Pinzón C: Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico
Rodríguez-Flores E: Departamento de Química de Biomacromoléculas, Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico [ORCID]
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Processes
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11
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9
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2793
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2023
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2023-09-20
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2227-9717
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PII: pr11092793, Publication Type: Review
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