Introduction: As of May 2021, no antiviral drug regimen has proved effective against SARS-CoV-2. With the pandemic showing no signs of…
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Development of a priori dosing nomograms for daptomycin in patients at Swiss university hospitals
Objectives: Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide with activity against gram-positive bacteria (e.g. Staphylococcus spp., Enterococcus spp.) [1]. This antibiotic has dose-linear pharmacokinetics and…
Read moreOral ivermectin population pharmacokinetics modeling in venous plasma in healthy study participants in Kenya in preparation of BOHEMIA cluster randomized controlled trial
Introduction: Malaria remains a significant global public health problem although this infectious disease is preventable and treatable. Despite the large-scale…
Read moreIntroducing a novel analytical framework for risk stratification of real-world data with survival and unsupervised machine learning. A small cell lung cancer SCLC study
Objectives: Stratification of patients to predict accurate prognostic outcomes and improve treatment selection is a crucial challenge in oncology [1]….
Read morePopulation pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome
Introduction: The Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute immune-mediated polyneuropathy frequently triggered by a preceding infection. Clinically GBS is characterized…
Read moreDevelopment of a primary Sjogren’s Syndrome (pSS) quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) model linking mechanistic pathways to clinical scores.
Introduction: Primary Sjogren’s syndrome (pSS) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltrates and functional impairment of exocrine glands,…
Read moreDevelopment of a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) QSP model linking systemic biomarkers to cutaneous clinical score (CLASI) outcomes.
Introduction: Evaluation of novel therapies or interventions for regulatory approval depends on the measurement of clinically relevant and often semi-quantitative…
Read moreMachine learning for covariate selection and prediction of pharmacokinetic data illustrated with rifampicin
Objectives: Pharmacometrics (PMX) plays a vital role in various areas ranging from model-informed drug development, regulatory decision-making to model-informed precision…
Read moreModel-based experimental design recommendations for in vivo studies of the novel anti-tuberculosis drug MPL-447 improve characterization of PK and PD
Introduction: The novel mycobacterial membrane protein large 3 (MmpL3) transporter inhibitor MPL-447 is being developed for tuberculosis (TB) treatment by…
Read moreProspective evaluation of a novel model-based dosing guideline for gentamicin in preterm and term neonates
Objectives: One of the most commonly used prophylactic antibiotics at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is gentamicin. It is mainly…
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