Improving treatment outcomes for MDR-TB - Novel host-directed therapies and personalised medicine of the future

Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd..

Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is a major threat to global health security. In 2017, only 50% of patients with MDR-TB who received WHO-recommended treatment were cured. Most MDR-TB patients who recover continue to suffer from functional disability due to long-term lung damage. Whilst new MDR-TB treatment regimens are becoming available, conventional drug therapies need to be complemented with host-directed therapies (HDTs) to reduce tissue damage and improve functional treatment outcomes. This viewpoint highlights recent data on biomarkers, immune cells, circulating effector molecules and genetics which could be utilised for developing personalised HDTs. Novel technologies currently used for cancer therapy which could facilitate in-depth understanding of host genetics and the microbiome in patients with MDR-TB are discussed. Against this background, personalised cell-based HDTs for adjunct MDR-TB treatment to improve clinical outcomes are proposed as a possibility for complementing standard therapy and other HDT agents. Insights into the molecular biology of the mechanisms of action of cellular HDTs may also aid to devise non-cell-based therapies targeting defined inflammatory pathway(s) in Mtb-driven immunopathology.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:80S

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International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 80S(2019) vom: 01. März, Seite S62-S67

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rao, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Ippolito, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Mfinanga, Sayoki [VerfasserIn]
Ntoumi, Francine [VerfasserIn]
Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy [VerfasserIn]
Vilaplana, Cris [VerfasserIn]
Zumla, Alimuddin [VerfasserIn]
Maeurer, Markus [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antitubercular Agents
Biomarkers
Clinical studies
Host-directed therapies
Immunologic Factors
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Personalised medicine

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Date Completed 22.04.2019

Date Revised 22.04.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2019.01.039

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM293129231