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Mechanisms of resistance against NITD-916, a direct inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis InhA.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Dec 2017
McNeil Matthew B, Dennison Devon, Shelton Catherine, Flint Lindsay, Korkegian Aaron, Parish Tanya
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Isoniazid inhibits Mycobacterium tuberculosis InhA and is a key component of drug regimens that treat tuberculosis. However, the high rate of resistance against isoniazid is a contributing factor to the emergence of multi-drug resistance strains of M. tuberculosis. The 4-hydroxy-2-pyridine NITD-916 is a direct inhibitor of M. tuberculosis InhA that has comparable efficacy to isoniazid in mouse models of TB...
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