rpoB, katG and inhA mutations in multi-drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from southeast Mexico

Author(s):  
Roberto Zenteno-Cuevas ◽  
Betzaida Cuevas-Córdoba ◽  
Aurora Parissi-Crivelli
2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 7010-7014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Horita ◽  
Shinji Maeda ◽  
Yuko Kazumi ◽  
Norio Doi

ABSTRACTWe evaluated the antituberculosis (anti-TB) activity of five β-lactams alone or in combination with β-lactamase inhibitors against 41 clinical isolates ofMycobacterium tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant strains. Of those, tebipenem, an oral carbapenem, showed the most potent anti-TB activity against clinical isolates, with a MIC range of 0.125 to 8 μg/ml, which is achievable in the human blood. More importantly, in the presence of clavulanate, MIC values of tebipenem declined to 2 μg/ml or less.


2015 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 23-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jalil Kardan Yamchi ◽  
Mehri Haeili ◽  
Seifu Gizaw Feyisa ◽  
Hossein Kazemian ◽  
Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 2193-2203
Author(s):  
Rafal Sawicki ◽  
Grazyna Ginalska

The significant increase in the detection of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis caused an urgent need for the discovery new antituberculosis drugs. Development of bioinformatics and computational sciences enabled the progress of new strategies leading to design, discovery and identification of a series of interesting drug candidates. In this short review, we would like to present recently discovered compounds targeting important mycobacterial proteins: DNA topoisomerases and the transcriptional repressor of EthA monooxygenase – EthR.


2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoon Leechawengwongs ◽  
Therdsak Prammananan ◽  
Sarinya Jaitrong ◽  
Pamaree Billamas ◽  
Nampueng Makhao ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT New fluoroquinolones (FQs) have been shown to be more active against drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains than early FQs, such as ofloxacin. Sitafloxacin (STFX) is a new fluoroquinolone with in vitro activity against a broad range of bacteria, including M. tuberculosis. This study aimed to determine the in vitro activity of STFX against all groups of drug-resistant strains, including multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis (MDR M. tuberculosis), MDR M. tuberculosis with quinolone resistance (pre-XDR), and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains. A total of 374 drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains were tested for drug susceptibility by the conventional proportion method, and 95 strains were randomly submitted for MIC determination using the microplate alamarBlue assay (MABA). The results revealed that all the drug-resistant strains were susceptible to STFX at a critical concentration of 2 μg/ml. Determination of the MIC90s of the strains showed different MIC levels; MDR M. tuberculosis strains had a MIC90 of 0.0625 μg/ml, whereas pre-XDR and XDR M. tuberculosis strains had identical MIC90s of 0.5 μg/ml. Common mutations within the quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) of gyrA and/or gyrB did not confer resistance to STFX, except that double mutations of GyrA at Ala90Val and Asp94Ala were found in strains with a MIC of 1.0 μg/ml. The results indicated that STFX had potent in vitro activity against all the groups of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains and should be considered a new repurposed drug for treatment of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB.


2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (7) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
O. A. Pasechnik ◽  
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A. M. Dymova ◽  
V. L. Stasenko ◽  
M. P. Tatarintseva ◽  
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