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SUBMITTER: Salinger DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6811417 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Salinger David H DH Nedelman Jerry R JR Mendel Carl C Spigelman Melvin M Hermann David J DJ
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20191022 11
The bedaquiline regimen for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in adults is a loading dose of 400 mg QD for 2 weeks followed by 200 mg thrice weekly (TIW) for 22 weeks. Most TB antibiotics administered with bedaquiline are given QD. Using pharmacokinetic simulations, we explored alternative QD bedaquiline regimens and determined that 200 mg QD for 8 weeks followed by 100 mg QD provides comparable exposures to the approved regimen. This simpler regimen is under clinical ev ...[more]