Thioridazine cures extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and the need for global trials is now!

被引:73
作者
Amaral, Leonard [1 ]
Boeree, Martin J. [2 ,3 ]
Gillespie, Stephen H. [4 ]
Udwadia, Zarir F. [5 ]
van Soolingen, Dick [6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nova Lisboa, Unit Mycobacteriol UPMM, Inst Hyg & Trop Med, P-1200 Lisbon, Portugal
[2] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Med Ctr, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[3] ULC Dekkerswald, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[4] UCL, Ctr Med Microbiol, London, England
[5] Hinduja Hosp & Res Ctr, Bombay, Maharashtra, India
[6] Natl Inst Publ Hlth & Environm, TB Reference Lab, NL-3720 BA Bilthoven, Netherlands
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
关键词
Pulmonary tuberculosis; Multidrug-resistant TB; Extensively drug-resistant TB; EMERGENCE;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2009.12.019
中图分类号
R51 [传染病];
学科分类号
100401 ;
摘要
Thioridazine (TDZ) has been shown to have in vitro activity against multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, to promote the killing of intracellular MDR and XDR strains and to cure the mouse of antibiotic-susceptible and -resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) infections. Recently, TDZ was used to cure 10 of 12 XDR-TB patients in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the time of writing, it is being used for the therapy of non-antibiotic-responsive terminal XDR-TB patients in Mumbai, India, on the basis of compassionate therapy and although it is too early to determine a cure, the patients have improved appetite, weight gain, are afebrile and free of night sweats, and their radiological picture shows great improvement. Because XDR-TB is essentially a terminal disease in many areas of the world and no new effective agents have yet to yield successful clinical trials, global clinical trials for the therapy of XDR-TB are urgently required. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. and the International Society of Chemotherapy. All rights reserved.
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