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Hickey, A. J., Durham, P. G., Dharmadhikari, A., & Nardell, E. A. (2016). Inhaled drug treatment for tuberculosis: Past progress and future prospects. Journal of Controlled Release, 240, 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2015.11.018
Since the 19905 the rising incidence of multiple drug resistant TB, particularly in the context of human immunodeficiency virus co-infected patients, has threatened global TB control. At that time funding agencies began to support formal investigation of aerosol therapy which until then had been the subject of case reports of individual investigators. Over the last decade, proponents of aerosol therapy have increased in number within the TB research community as the incidence of multiple and extremely drug resistant TB has increased dramatically around the world. Aerosol therapy offers the potential to deliver drug at target concentrations directly into the lungs, use the alveolar-capillary interface to achieve systemic levels, while reducing the risk of systemic toxicity seen with parentally administered closes. In addition, there are insufficient new drugs in the pipeline to anticipate the appearance of a new regimen in lime to assure future control of drug resistance. Consequently, alternative strategies are critical to achieving global TB control, and inhaled therapies should be considered as one such strategy.
