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Population pharmacokinetics and target attainment analysis of linezolid in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients.

Anna Katharina TietjenNiklas KroemerDario CattaneoSara BaldelliSebastian Georg Wicha
Published in: British journal of clinical pharmacology (2021)
This study showed that a dose of 300 mg twice daily of linezolid might not be sufficient to treat MDR-TB patients from a PK/PD perspective. Thus, it might be recommendable to start with a higher dose of 600 mg twice daily to ensure PK/PD target attainment. Hereby, therapeutic drug monitoring and MIC determination should be performed to control PK/PD target attainment as linezolid shows high variability in its PK in the TB population.
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