Actualización sobre el tratamiento de la tuberculosis
Martínez-Campreciós, Joan (Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron)
Espinosa-Pereiro, Juan (Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron)
Sánchez-Montalvá, Adrián (Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Medicina

Date:	2024
Abstract:	Tuberculosis (TB) affects more than 10 million people each year. We have contested this burden with a paradoxically slow development of treatments, as compared to other infectious diseases. This review aims to update health care professionals on the last developments for the management of TB. The combination of drugs established more than 40 years ago is still adequate to cure most people affected by TB. However, with the generalisation of regimens based on rifampicin and isoniazid for (only) 6 months, resistance emerged. Resistant cases needed long treatments based on injectable drugs. Now, after an exciting decade of research, we can treat resistant TB with oral regimens based on bedaquiline, nitroimidazoles, and linezolid for (only) 6 months, and we may soon break the 6-month barrier for treatment duration. However, these improvements are not enough to end TB without an engagement of people affected and their communities to achieve adherence to treatment, transmission control, and improve socioeconomic determinants of health.
Grants:	Instituto de Salud Carlos III CM22/00246
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Language:	Castellà
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Mycobacterium tuberculosis ; Drug resistance ; Global management ; Short treatment ; Bedaquiline
Published in:	Medicina clínica, Vol. 163, Núm. 5 (September 2024) , p. 245-252, ISSN 1578-8989

DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2024.02.030

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