Pyrazinamide News

Guidelines Updated on Managing Drug Interactions When Treating HIV ... - Medscape (subscription)

When used with isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide, there is some concern about hepatotoxicity. Antiviral activity when used with rifampin is favorable. ...

http://www.medscape.com/viewartic... | Posted: Wed Feb 06 15:28:52 -0500 2008

Animal to human TB transmission largely ‘forgotten’, experts say - Africa Science News Service

She said it was important for the role of zoonotic TB be investigated since bovine TB was resistant to pyrazinamide – one of the most accessible and ...

http://africasciencenews.org/asns... | Posted: Tue Nov 20 04:39:20 -0500 2007

The Exterminators - Esquire

A single course of the antibiotics needed to cure TB -- isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol -- takes six to nine months. The "short course. ...

http://www.esquire.com/features/b... | Posted: Tue Nov 20 00:20:13 -0500 2007

Experts debate how to develop drugs specifically for MDR TB - Aidsmap

Also, there appears to be a drug interaction with one of the drugs in the first line regimen (either rifampicin or pyrazinamide) that reduces blood levels ...

http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/FD... | Posted: Mon Nov 12 05:22:21 -0500 2007

SME pharma goes hi-tech to log on to off-patent mart - Business Standard

... chairman and managing director, Calyx Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, the largest supplier of Pyrazinamide — an anti-tuberculosis drug. ...

http://www.business-standard.com/... | Posted: Mon Oct 08 11:33:27 -0400 2007

SME pharma goes hi-tech to log on to off-patent mart - Business Standard

... chairman and managing director, Calyx Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, the largest supplier of Pyrazinamide — an anti-tuberculosis drug. ...

Posted: Mon Oct 08 11:33:27 -0400 2007

Long dormant, antibiotic pipeline flowing again with more than 120 ... - American Medical News (subscription)

Another paper, also co-authored by Dr. Grosset, showed a combination of moxifloxacin, rifapentine and pyrazinamide cured this infection in a mouse model in ...

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/... | Posted: Sun Sep 30 18:48:57 -0400 2007

ICAAC: Moxifloxacin could cut TB treatment time to four months - Aidsmap

... moxifloxacin or ethambutol on five days of each week, plus the standard anti-TB regimen of isoniazid, rifampicin and pyrazinamide for all participants. ...

http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/4A... | Posted: Tue Sep 18 09:29:04 -0400 2007

New combination therapy boosts TB recovery - Healthcare Republic (press release)

All participants were given a standard combination of three antibiotics - isoniazid, rifampicin, and pyrazinamide. They were randomly assigned a fourth pill ...

http://www.healthcarerepublic.com... | Posted: Thu Sep 20 21:44:46 -0400 2007