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Trial reportAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2018

Impact of Rifabutin or Rifampin on Bedaquiline Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics Assessed in a Randomized Clinical Trial with Healthy Adult Volunteers.

Amanda M Healan, J McLeod Griffiss, Howard M Proskin, Mary Ann O'Riordan, Wesley A Gray, Robert A Salata, Jeffrey L Blumer

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Evaluation of the drug interaction between rifabutin and elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI).Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2026
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  7. Bedaquiline Delivery Innovations: A Review on Advancing MDR-TB Treatment Strategies.Recent advances in anti-infective drug discovery · 2025
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  15. DifferentialAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Amanda M HealanDivision of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
J McLeod GriffissClinicalRM, Hinkley, Ohio, USA crapaud@loursage.org.
Howard M ProskinHoward M. Proskin and Associates, Inc., Rochester, New York, USA.
Mary Ann O'RiordanDepartment of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Wesley A GrayDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Robert A SalataDivision of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Jeffrey L BlumerDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Case Western Reserve University · USUniversity of Toledo · USClinical Research Management · US

Funding

NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272200800026C
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bedaquiline is a diarylquinoline that specifically inhibits mycobacterial ATP synthase. Bedaquiline has been used to effectively treat tuberculosis (TB) caused by drug-susceptible and drug-resistant

Indexed as

AdultAntitubercular AgentsArea Under CurveDiarylquinolinesDrug InteractionsFemaleHealthy VolunteersHumansMaleRifabutinRifampinAntitubercular AgentsbedaquilineDiarylquinolinesRifabutinRifampinbedaquilineclinical trialsMycobacterium tuberculosispharmacokineticsrifabutinrifampin

Identifiers

PMID29061739
PMCPMC5740348
OpenAlexW2766703497

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Registered trials

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