Delayed bactericidal response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to bedaquiline involves remodelling of bacterial metabolism

Bedaquiline (BDQ), an ATP synthase inhibitor, is the first drug to be approved for treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in decades. Though BDQ has shown excellent efficacy in clinical trials, its early bactericidal activity during the first week of chemotherapy is minimal. Here, using micro...

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Main Authors: Koul, Anil, Vranckx, Luc, Dhar, Neeraj, Göhlmann, Hinrich W.H., Özdemir, Emre, Neefs, Jean-Marc, Schulz, Melanie, Lu, Ping, Mørtz, Ejvind, McKinney, John D., Andries, Koen, Bald, Dirk
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3948051/