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The new tuberculosis drug Perchlozone® shows cross-resistance with thiacetazone.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Apr 2015
Gopal Pooja, Dick Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Perchlozone(®) (PCZ), a new thiosemicarbazone developed by JSC Pharmasyntez (Moscow, Russia) for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), was approved for use against multidrug-resistant disease in Russia in 2012. The mechanism of action of the drug is unknown. A well-studied thiosemicarbazone is the old TB drug thiacetazone (TAC). It has a narrow spectrum and inhibits the FASII dehydratase complex HadABC, which is...
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