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Drug Development

US FDA reviewing pretomanid for tuberculosis

by Jyllian Kemsley
March 16, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 11

 

Chemical structure of pretomanid.

The US Food and Drug Administration is evaluating a new drug application for pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug candidate. Pretomanid would be used in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid to treat patients with multi- or extensively drug-resistant TB. Pretomanid was developed by the TB Alliance, a global nonprofit group dedicated to advancing TB drug development.

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