ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2014
Linezolid manifests a rapid and dramatic therapeutic effect for patients with life-threatening tuberculous meningitis.
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- Adjunctive linezolid in patients with tuberculous meningitis for the prevention of mortality or neurologic disability: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluation of contezolid's cerebrospinal fluid concentration and safety in tuberculous meningitis patients.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Trial
- Impact of High-Dose Rifampicin on Linezolid Pharmacokinetics in Tuberculous Meningitis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Trial
- Safety and Tolerability of a Short Course of Linezolid for the Treatment of Predominantly Moderate to Severe Tuberculous Meningitis in Adults With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Trial
- Linezolid Population Pharmacokinetic Model in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Among Patients With Tuberculosis Meningitis.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2024Trial
- A Phase 2A Trial of the Safety and Tolerability of Increased Dose Rifampicin and Adjunctive Linezolid, With or Without Aspirin, for Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Tuberculous Meningitis: The LASER-TBM Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Trial
- Management ofOpen forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Concentrations of Bedaquiline, Pretomanid, and Linezolid During Curative Treatment of Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Pre-Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculous Meningitis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Clinical efficacy of linezolid in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis: a retrospective analysis and literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Treatment of Tuberculous Meningitis With Contezolid in a Patient With Complex Comorbidities: A Case Report and Literature Review.Case reports in infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Advances in the Treatment and Clinical Management Strategies of Tuberculous Meningitis.International journal of general medicine · 2025Review
- A teenage girl with altered mental status and paraparesis.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2024Article
- Tuberculous meningitis diagnosis and treatment: classic approaches and high-throughput pathways.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Efficacy of linezolid in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis: a meta-analysis.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2024Article
- Surgery for Central Nervous System Tuberculosis in Children.Advances and technical standards in neurosurgery · 2024Article
- Linezolid does not improve bactericidal activity of rifampin-containing first-line regimens in animal models of TB meningitis.International journal of antimicrobial agents · 2024Article
- A preclinical model of TB meningitis to determine drug penetration and activity at the sites of disease.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2023Article
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- Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modelling to Predict the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Linezolid in Adults and Children with Tuberculous Meningitis.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- DynamicNature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with MRC grade II/III tuberculous meningitis (TBM) who accepted a background antitubercular regimen (BR) with or without linezolid (LZD). At the 4th week, the LZD-BR group achieved a faster and higher percentage of Glasgow coma scale recovery and temperature recovery, a higher cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)/blood glucose ratio, and lower CSF white blood cell counts than did the BR group. Short-term linezolid supplementation may be a more effective treatment for life-threatening TBM.
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