Publication

Semi-Automated Therapeutic Drug Monitoring as a Pillar toward Personalized Medicine for Tuberculosis Management.

Journal : Pharmaceutics
Authors : Jayanti RP, Long NP, Phat NK, Cho YS, Shin JG
10.3390/pharmaceutics14050990 : DOI
35631576 : PMID
PMC9147223 : PMC-ID

Standard tuberculosis (TB) management has failed to control the growing number of drug-resistant TB cases worldwide. Therefore, innovative approaches are required to eradicate TB. Model-informed precision dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) have become promising tools for adjusting anti-TB drug doses corresponding with individual pharmacokinetic profiles. These are crucial to improving the treatment outcome of the patients, particularly for those with complex comorbidity and a high risk of treatment failure. Despite the actual benefits of TDM at the bedside, conventional TDM encounters several hurdles related to laborious, time-consuming, and costly processes. Herein, we review the current practice of TDM and discuss the main obstacles that impede it from successful clinical implementation. Moreover, we propose a semi-automated TDM approach to further enhance precision medicine for TB management.