Effective therapy with the neuroleptic thioridazine as an adjunct to second line of defence drugs, and the potential that thioridazine offers for new patents that cover a variety of “new uses”.

• Authors: Amaral L, Jette E, Joseph, Kristiansen, Molnar, Viveiros M
• Journal: Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery
• Link: https://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=16&SID=P2WA5hwy5j35Sqjoq2z&page=1&doc=1

New and active infections of tuberculosis continue to increase globally. Although antibiotic susceptible infections can be readily cured with isoniazide and rifampicin, infections resistant to these two antibiotics, named Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR TB), are problematic for therapy, extol high costs in terms of human suffering and finances, and when these MDR infections progress to Extensive Drug Resistant TB (XDR TB) status, they are not only difficult to treat, they produce high levels of mortality regardless of therapeutic modality employed.
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