Posted on December 07, 2017
Source: PLoS One
Vidya Mave, Aarti Kinikar, Anju Kagal, Smita Nimkar, Hari Koli, Sultanat Khwaja, Renu Bharadwaj, Roy Gerona, Anita Wen, Geetha Ramachandran, Hemanth Kumar, Peter Bacchetti, Kelly E. Dooley, Nikhil Gupte, Amita Gupta, Monica Gandhi
We measured hair and plasma concentrations of isoniazid among sixteen children with tuberculosis who underwent personal or video-assisted directly observed therapy and thus had 100% adherence. This study therefore defined typical isoniazid exposure parameters after two months of treatment among fully-adherent patients in both hair and plasma (plasma area under the concentration-time curve, AUC, estimated using pharmacokinetic data collected 0, 2, 4, and 6 hours after drug administration). We found that INH levels in hair among highly-adherent individuals did not correlate well with plasma AUC or trough concentrations, suggesting that each measure may provide incremental and complementary information regarding drug exposure in the context of TB treatment.
