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SUBMITTER: Dutta NK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3591898 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dutta Noton K NK Alsultan Abdullah A Peloquin Charles A CA Karakousis Petros C PC
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20130107 3
Substitution of rifapentine (RFP) for rifampin (RIF) in the standard antituberculous regimen reduces the time required to cure chronic tuberculosis (TB) infection in mice, but not in guinea pigs. In order to gain insight into these discrepant findings, we conducted a steady-state pharmacokinetic (PK) study in healthy guinea pigs to study the metabolism and autoinduction of RIF and RFP. Both RFP and RIF 25-desacetyl metabolites (desRFP and desRIF, respectively), were detected at low concentration ...[more]