Recent news on Capreomycin

TB that developed resistance to every drug kills two in Italy  -  May 21, 2007
Aidsmap,...well as any drug from the flouroquinolone class, and any of the three injectable drugs used to treat tuberculosis; capreomycin, kanamycin and amikacin.

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis—United States, 1993-2006  -  May 1, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...resistance to any fluoroquinolone, and resistance to at least one second-line injectable drug (amikacin, capreomycin, or kanamycin).

Lilly invests $50 million in TB fight  -  Apr 30, 2007
ArabianBusiness.com,Since 2000, Lilly has supplied more than one million vials of capreomycin and more than five million capsules of cycloserine through the WHO's Directly

Doctors' Call Spurs Massive Pledge To Fight TB  -  Apr 10, 2007
The Ledger,Capreomycin, for example, requires fermenting a broth with fish meal, corn, and other ingredients for seven days, filtering and purifying the brownish

WHO to help SA fight deadly new TB strain  -  Apr 4, 2007
Business Day,These include fluoroquinolones, kanamycin, amikacin and capreomycin. XDR-TB strains are resistant to first-line and some second-line drugs,

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Xdr-Tb): The Facts  -  Mar 29, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),XDR-TB is due to bacteria that are resistant to any fluoroquinolone, and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs (capreomycin, kanamycin and

With local impetus, drug firm takes on TB  -  26 Mar 2007
Boston Globe,Capreomycin, for example, requires fermenting a broth with fish meal, corn, and other ingredients for seven days, filtering and purifying the brownish

Lilly Announces Additional $50 Million Investment in Global ...  -  Mar 23, 2007
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),Additionally, since 2000, Lilly has supplied more than one million vials of capreomycin and more than five million capsules of cycloserine through the WHO's

Lilly Announces Additional $50 Mln Investment To Fight Multi-Drug ...  -  Mar 21, 2007
Trading Markets,Additionally, since 2000, the company said it has supplied more than one million vials of capreomycin and more than five million capsules of cycloserine

Lilly Commits $50M More to Global TB Partnership  -  Mar 22, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),...two Lilly antibiotics used to treat MDR-TB, capreomycin (Capastat®) and cycloserine (Seromycin®), to facilities in the highest-burdened countries.

Eli Lilly Donates $50 For TB Drugs  -  Mar 22, 2007
Dog Flu Diet and Diseases,Treatments such as capreomycin and cycloserine, shelved due to their side affects, are expected to be aided by the huge donation.

Eli Lilly donates $50 million for virulent TB  -  Mar 21, 2007
Reuters South Africa,The donation is expected to boost the supply of treatments such as capreomycin and cycloserine, which were developed some 40 years ago and shelved for their

A futher 8 XDR-TB cases diagnosed  -  Mar 1, 2007
The Herald Eastern Cape,...between R24 000 and R30 000 for a four-month course. One of them, Capreomycin, will be manufactured by local pharmaceutical company Aspen from next year.

XDR TB Death Toll Rises, But Mainly Confined to Tugela Ferry  -  Mar 23, 2007
AllAfrica.com,..."The two new TB drugs that we are trying are Capreomycin and PAS," says Margo. "They are not new TB drugs but they have never been used in South Africa

TB Incidence Rate Drops in US, But Decline Slows  -  Mar 23, 2007
MedPage Today,And at least one of the second-line injectable drugs, amikacin (Amikin), capreomycin (Capastat), or kanamycin (Kantrex). Under that definition, there were

Country Urged to Beef Up Action On Tuberculosis  -  Mar 23, 2007
AllAfrica.com,...as well as resistance to a fluoroquinolone and at least one second-line injectable agent such as amikacin, kanamycin or capreomycin.

Eli Lilly invests $50 million for MDR tuberculosis  -  Mar 22, 2007
SpiritIndia,...two Lilly antibiotics used to treat MDR-TB, capreomycin (Capastat(R)) and cycloserine (Seromycin(R)), to facilities in the highest-burdened countries.

Drugs are not enough for extreme TB - doctors  -  Mar 5, 2007
Independent Online,Aspen currently manufactures the oral TB drug cycloserine and within about 15 months will be able to manufacture capreomycin, thanks to Lilly's assistance,

The Doctor's World Rise of a Deadly TB Reveals a Global System in ...  -  Mar 19, 2007
New York Times,...along with two other drugs: a member of the fluoroquinolone class and at least one of three others (capreomycin, kanamycin and amikacin).

TB Second Biggest Infectious Killer Worldwide  -  Mar 19, 2007
Medical News Today,More specifically, XDR-TB is resistant to the fluoroquinolones and resistant to at least one of the injectable drugs,amikacin, kanamycin and capreomycin.

Aspen revenue almost R2billion  -  Feb 26, 2007
Business Day,We are supplying the government their treatments for the multi-drug resistant TB in the form of Cylcoserine which is a capsule, and Capreomycin which is a

CROI: Presence of XDR-TB Worldwide Grows More Common  -  Feb 26, 2007
MedPage Today,...to any fluoroquinolone, and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs -- capreomycin (Capastat), kanamycin (Kantrex), and amikacin (Amikin).

Why Eastern Cape’s XDR-TB patients don’t get superdrugs  -  Feb 12, 2007
Dispatch Online,KwaZulu-Natal doctor Tony Moll, who has researched the strain since it was first identified last September, said Capreomycin could cause liver problems and

Five confirmed dead in PE from lethal TB strain  -  Feb 8, 2007
The Herald Eastern Cape,Although no new TB drugs or diagnostics have been developed in the past 30 years, the health department is currently importing two drugs, Capreomycin and

Eastern Cape is giving XDR-TB drugs  -  Feb 13, 2007
Independent Online,He denied reports that the hospital was not using Capreomycin and Para Amino Salicylic Acid because no one knew how to administer them.

Can anything stop the superbug?  -  Jan 17, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,...rifampicin but also to any fluoroquinolone and at least one of the remaining injectable drugs to treat the disease: capreomycin, kanamycin and amikacin.

Definition of killer TB strain is updated worldwide  -  Dec 20, 2006
The South African Star (subscription),...and rifampin plus resistant to any fluoroquinolone |and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs (amikacin, kanamycin, or capreomycin).

Notice to Readers: Revised Definition of Extensively Drug ...  -  Dec 19, 2006
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...and rifampin plus resistant to any fluoroquinolone and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs (ie, amikacin, kanamycin, or capreomycin).

Pulmonary Tuberculosis  -  Dec 7, 2006
News Today Online,The commonest are: Isoniazid, Rifampin, Streptomycin, Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol, and Capreomycin. These medications have potential side effects that can be

S.Africa's Aspen to make drug vs deadly TB strain  -  Nov 30, 2006
Reuters South Africa,Port Elizabeth to produce capreomycin by January 2008, Stavros Nicolaou, senior executive of strategic trade at Aspen, told a briefing in Johannesburg.

Aspen to produce drug to fight TB wave  -  Nov 30, 2006
Business Day,...use a new R300m plant in Port Elizabeth to produce capreomycin by January 2008, Stavros Nicolaou, executive at Aspen, told a briefing in Johannesburg.

Aspen joins fight vs killer TB  -  Nov 30, 2006
Finance24,...will use a new R300m plant in Port Elizabeth to produce capreomycin by January 2008, Stavros Nicolaou, senior executive of strategic trade at Aspen,

At least 250 Bay patients have high-risk TB strain  Nov 5, 2006
Capreomycin, an additional drug, recently registered for use with the SA Medicines Control Council, will be manufactured by local pharmaceutical company Aspen. ... -The Herald Eastern Cape, Eli Lilly donation to help fight deadly new strain of TB  Oct 26, 2006
CAPE TOWN — Pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly yesterday announced that it had donated 3000 vials of Capreomycin to help government treat patients ... -Business Day, Eli Lilly Donation to Help Fight Deadly New Strain of TB  Oct 27, 2006
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly yesterday announced that it had donated 3000 vials of Capreomycin to help government treat patients infected with the new ... -AllAfrica.com, South Africa: Dept Receives Antibiotic to Treat Xdr-TB  Oct 26, 2006
...the country. Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly initially developed Capreomycin sulphate for the general management of TB. The drug ... -AllAfrica.com, Company donates TB antibiotics  Oct 27, 2006
Capreomycin, which is injected into the body, was used for the treatment of TB before being replaced by the current first line of TB drugs which have better ... -Independent Online, Fight against killer TB gets a shot in arm  Oct 27, 2006
The antibiotic drug capreomycin sulphate, initially developed for the management of TB, was donated to the health department by pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly ... -Independent Online, Quarantine orders for XDR-TB patients  Oct 24, 2006
...second-line drugs. It is tackled with older, less effective drugs, such as capreomycin and para amino salicylic acid. Mseleku said ... -Business Day, XDR TB: now more cases than bird flu  Oct 27, 2006
One of the few drugs thought to be effective against XDR TB, capreomycin, has been donated to the South African government by manufacturer Eli Lilly. ... -Aidsmap, Boost for TB treatment  Oct 31, 2006
The company donated 3 000 vials of the antibiotic drug capreomycin sulphate, which was initially developed to manage tuberculosis. ... -Citizen, South Africa: Playing Catch Up With XDR-TB  Oct 18, 2006
She warned that there was only one drug, Capreomycin, that could be added to the current drug arsenal and that it would have to be managed very strictly to ... -AllAfrica.com, WHO Global Task Force Outlines Measures to Combat XDR-TB Worldwide  Oct 17, 2006
...to resistance to any fluoroquinolone, and to at least one of three injectable second-line anti-TB drugs used in TB treatment (capreomycin, kanamicin, and ... -Yahoo! News (press release) New drugs offer hope to resistant TB patients  Sep 21, 2006
Department of Health spokesperson Leon Mbangwa said the department was making headway in procuring two drugs, Capreomycin and Para Amino Salicylic Acid from ... -Independent Online

South Africa: Local Company to Provide Drugs for Resistant TB  Sep 13, 2006
To this end, pharmaceutical company Aspen has agreed to supply Capreomycin and a process is underway to get a supplier for Para Amino Salicylic Acid. ... -AllAfrica.com

Drugs to fight new strain of TB  Sep 13, 2006
The department of health has signed a deal with Aspen to purchase Capreomycin and are looking into the purchase of Para Amino Salicylic Acid. ... -Bush Radio Newsroom

South Africa To Make Available Two New Drugs To Fight The TB ...  Sep 13, 2006
...health department taking advice from experts in the field of medicine have signed a deal with the local pharmaceutical company Aspen to buy Capreomycin and are ... -MedIndia

S.Africa seeks new drugs to fight deadly TB  Sep 12, 2006
On the advice of medical experts the health department has signed a deal with local pharmaceutical company Aspen to buy Capreomycin and talks are under way ... -Reuters

KZN to tackle deadly XDR-TB  Sep 16, 2006
..."We are making arrangements to obtain a supply of capreomycin, known as Capstat, and para amino salicylic acid (pasa) to treat XDR-TB. ... -Independent Online

Extremely virulent, drug resistant strain of TB running wild in ...  Sep 18, 2006
...this week and on the advice of medical experts the health department has signed a deal with local pharmaceutical company Aspen to buy Capreomycin and talks are ... -News-Medical.net

Extreme TB outbreak just 'tip of the iceberg'  Sep 10, 2006
Dr Willem Sturm of the University of KwaZulu-Natal said they were petitioning the Medicines Control Council to urgently reregister "capreomycin. ... -Independent Online

Supplier found for anti-TB drug  Sep 12, 2006
Natal. Charity Bhengu, the department spokesperson, says local pharmaceutical manufacturer Aspen had agreed to supply Capreomycin. ... -SABC News

Super TB: Drug supplier found  Sep 12, 2006
Natal. Department spokesperson Charity Bhengu said local pharmaceutical manufacturer Aspen had agreed to supply Capreomycin. "And ... -iAfrica.com

South Africa: Officials Under Pressure to Contain Deadly TB  Sep 14, 2006
..."The Department of Health is making progress in ascertaining supply of additional drugs - Capreomycin and Para Amino Salicylic Acid - to deal with extremely ... -AllAfrica.com

South Africa: Possibility of Quarantine Measures to Counter Xdr TB  Sep 14, 2006
...company Aspen Pharmacare, said they were "working together with the government in fast tracking the process of registration of Capreomycin with the Medical ... -AllAfrica.com

Deadly TB strain stalks KwaZulu-Natal  Sep 5, 2006
...treat patients with XDR-TB, she said. These were capreomycin and paramino salicylic acid. However, Sturm said tests indicated the ... -Business Day

Pulmonary Tuberculosis  -  Dec 7, 2006
News Today Online,The commonest are: Isoniazid, Rifampin, Streptomycin, Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol, and Capreomycin. These medications have potential side effects that can be

Aspen to produce drug to fight TB wave  -  Nov 30, 2006
Business Day,...use a new R300m plant in Port Elizabeth to produce capreomycin by January 2008, Stavros Nicolaou, executive at Aspen, told a briefing in Johannesburg.

S.Africa's Aspen to make drug vs deadly TB strain  -  Nov 30, 2006
Reuters South Africa,Port Elizabeth to produce capreomycin by January 2008, Stavros Nicolaou, senior executive of strategic trade at Aspen, told a briefing in Johannesburg.

Aspen joins fight vs killer TB  -  Nov 30, 2006
Finance24,...will use a new R300m plant in Port Elizabeth to produce capreomycin by January 2008, Stavros Nicolaou, senior executive of strategic trade at Aspen,

Anti-tuberculosis drugs  -  Nov 21, 2006
Newindpress (subscription),...line or reserve anti-tuberculosis drugs - Kanamycin, Cycloserine, Ethionamide, Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin, Para-amino salicylic acid (PAS), Capreomycin.



China's Hisun Pharmaceutical to make Eli Lilly TB drug  Mar 24, 2006
BEIJING (AFX) - Eli Lilly & Co said it will allow China's Hisun Pharmaceutical Co Ltd to start manufacturing one of its tuberculosis drugs called Capreomycin. ... - Forbes

Adjuvant resectional surgery improves cure rates in multidrug ...  Mar 8, 2006
...drugs). In all cases one parenteral drug was used, either amikacin or kanamycin, or, if resistance was found to these, capreomycin. ... - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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