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Understanding Tuberculosis - New Approaches to Fighting Against Drug Resistance

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Pere-Joan Cardona
Pere-Joan Cardona

Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol,
Spain

Published15 February 2012

Doi10.5772/2477

ISBN978-953-307-948-6

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-4361-1

Copyright year2012

Number of pages388

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

2. Chemotherapeutic Strategies and Targets Against Resistant TB

By Neeraj Shakya, Babita Agrawal and Rakesh Kumar

2,601
5. An Approach to the Search for New Drugs Against Tuberculosis

By Fernando R. Pavan, Daisy N. Sato and Clarice Q.F. Leite

2,728
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7. New Antitubercular Drugs Designed by Molecular Modification

By Jean Leandro dos Santos, Luiz Antonio Dutra, Thais Regina Ferreira de Melo and Chung Man Chin

4,659
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9. Old and New TB Drugs: Mechanisms of Action and Resistance

By Anastasia S. Kolyva and Petros C. Karakousis

18,726
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10. Pyrazinecarboxylic Acid Derivatives with Antimycobacterial Activity

By Martin Doležal, Jan Zitko and Josef Jampílek

4,109
3
11. The Potential Therapeutic Usage of Dithiocarbamate Sugar Derivatives for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

By Takemasa Takii, Yasuhiro Horita, Ryuji Kuroishi, Taku Chiba, Mashami Mori, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Tastuya Ito, Tatsuaki Tagami, Tetsuya Ozeki, Saotomo Ito and Kikuo Onozaki

2,279
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12. Fighting Against Resistant Strains: The Case of Benzothiazinones and Dinitrobenzamides

By Silvia Buroni, Giovanna Riccardi and Maria Rosalia Pasca

2,490
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15. Cinnamic Derivatives in Tuberculosis

By Prithwiraj De, Damien Veau, Florence Bedos-Belval, Stefan Chassaing and Michel Baltas

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16. Potential Use of I. suffruticosa in Treatment of Tuberculosis with Immune System Activation

By Camila Bernardes de Andrade Carli, Marcela Bassi Quilles, Danielle Cardoso Geraldo Maia, Clarice Q. Fujimura Leite, Wagner Vilegas and Iracilda Z. Carlos

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