2005
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-40422005000400022
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Fármacos no combate à tuberculose: passado, presente e futuro

Abstract: Recebido em 23/6/04; aceito em 15/10/04; publicado na web em 17/2/05 DRUGS AGAINST TUBERCULOSE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Approximately every minute, somewhere in the world four people die from tuberculosis (TB), an infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with about 3 million deaths per year. In spite of these problems, unfortunaly, it is about 40 years that a novel drug was last introduced on the market. Due to the rapid spread of multi-drug resistant TB strains, resistant against all major anti-tuberculosis … Show more

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“…According to official data from the Ministry of Health, in Brazil there are, currently, about 50 million people infected with the Koch bacillus, but without disease development; with a contamination of more than 1 million people every year, due to contact with sick persons. Yearly in Brazil, approximately, 111thousand new cases appear and 6 thousand deaths occur, being Rio de Janeiro the state with higher number of registered cases yearly, approximately 17,000; which corresponds to 20% of registered cases in the country (Souza, Vasconcelos, 2005). In the state of Rio de Janeiro, the disease was declared as priority since 1999 and the Program of Tuberculosis Control was been working hardly in the last years, in order to reverse this picture (Secretaria, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to official data from the Ministry of Health, in Brazil there are, currently, about 50 million people infected with the Koch bacillus, but without disease development; with a contamination of more than 1 million people every year, due to contact with sick persons. Yearly in Brazil, approximately, 111thousand new cases appear and 6 thousand deaths occur, being Rio de Janeiro the state with higher number of registered cases yearly, approximately 17,000; which corresponds to 20% of registered cases in the country (Souza, Vasconcelos, 2005). In the state of Rio de Janeiro, the disease was declared as priority since 1999 and the Program of Tuberculosis Control was been working hardly in the last years, in order to reverse this picture (Secretaria, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Apesar dos recentes avanços, 17,18 infelizmente já foram relatas cepas resistentes a estas novas moléculas, devido ao fato das bactérias estarem em constante evolução, [19][20][21] reforçando a urgente necessidade do desenvolvimento de novos fármacos para o tratamento da tuberculose. 2 Todavia, após a bedaquilina houve um aumento notável no número de artigos reportando compostos com potente atividade antituberculose.…”
Section: (Fase 3) (4) (Figura 1)unclassified
“…Associated with the efforts to universally adopt DOTS, there is a need to develop new drugs to face this scourge [30][31][32]. The use of adjuvant therapies, like the use of interferon-(IFN-) in MDR-TB cases, has yielded contradictory results.…”
Section: Figure 1 Radiological Findings Of Mdr-tb Patients See Detamentioning
confidence: 99%