Thursday, December 13, 2012

A new TB drug

From here. Can be very interesting…
AstraZeneca's investigational TB drug in Africa to determine its effectiveness as a potential new weapon against the disease.
The Phase IIa study - which is being funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institutes of Health, and will involve 75 patients - is testing the firm's AZD5847 against TB alone as well as in cases where there is co-infection with HIV.
AZD5847 is an antibiotic active against Gram-positive bacteria and mycobacteria, which has shown activity in culture against a broad array of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant strains of TB-causing mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to AZ.
Very interesting structure. Hopefully it will work!

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