Pretomanid is an antibiotic medication used for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis affecting the lungs.[4][5] It is generally used together with bedaquiline and linezolid.[4] It is taken by mouth.[4]
The most common side effects include nerve damage, acne, vomiting, headache, low blood sugar, diarrhea, and liver inflammation.[4] It is in the nitroimidazole class of medications.[6]
Pretomanid was approved for medical use in the United States in August 2019,[4][7] and in the European Union in July 2020.[2] Pretomanid was developed by TB Alliance.[8][4][9] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers it to be a first-in-class medication.[10] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.[11]
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^"Drug Trials Snapshots: Pretomanid". U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 14 August 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
^"Our Pipeline". TB Alliance. 19 July 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
^"Drug Approval Package: Pretomanid". U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 12 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
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^World Health Organization (2023). The selection and use of essential medicines 2023: web annex A: World Health Organization model list of essential medicines: 23rd list (2023). Geneva: World Health Organization. hdl:10665/371090. WHO/MHP/HPS/EML/2023.02.
Pretomanid is an antibiotic medication used for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis affecting the lungs. It is generally used together with...
variety include metronidazole, tinidazole, nimorazole, dimetridazole, pretomanid, ornidazole, megazol, and azanidazole. Drugs based on 2-nitroimidazoles...
(TB) medicine pretomanid was accepted for review by the U.S. FDA. In August 2019, TB Alliance's tuberculosis (TB) medicine pretomanid was approved by...
shown to be important in the action of another antimycobacterial prodrug pretomanid. Isoniazid is bactericidal to rapidly dividing mycobacteria, but is bacteriostatic...
to which mycolic acid would be attached. This mechanism is shared with pretomanid. Clinical isolates resistant to this drug tend to have mutations in the...
trial or on a compassionate basis. Their efficacy and safety are unknown: Pretomanid (manufactured by Novartis, developed in partnership with TB Alliance)...
component of the experimental BPaMZ combination treatment (bedaquiline + pretomanid + moxifloxacin + pyrazinamide). "Bedaquiline Fumarate". The American Society...
highly reactive and attacks cell wall synthesis enzymes such as DprE2. Pretomanid works in the same way. Clinical isolates resistant to these two drugs...