Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Drug regimens identified and optimized by output-driven platform markedly reduce tuberculosis treatment time

  • Bai-Yu Lee,
  • Daniel L. Clemens,
  • Aleidy Silva,
  • Barbara Jane Dillon,
  • Saša Masleša-Galić,
  • Susana Nava,
  • Xianting Ding,
  • Chih-Ming Ho,
  • Marcus A. Horwitz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14183
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Current antibiotic therapies for tuberculosis are lengthy and onerous. Here, the authors use an output-driven approach to optimize drug doses for two experimental drug regimens in a mouse model of tuberculosis, leading to improved regimens that reduce treatment time by 75%.