Bedaquiline: An Insight Into its Clinical Use in Multidrug-Resistant
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Asad Ahmad,
Juber Akhtar,
Mohammad Ahmad
et al.
Abstract:Every year, the World Health Organization reports 500,000 new cases of
drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), which poses a serious global danger. The
increased number of XDR-TB and MDR-TB cases reported worldwide necessitates the
use of new therapeutic approaches. The main issues with the antitubercular
medications now in use for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are
their poor side effect profile, r… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.