Pretomanid and the BPaL Regimen
Pretomanid is a tuberculosis (TB) drug developed by TB Alliance for use in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid that is now approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating a limited and specific population of adult patients with extensively drug-resistant, treatment-intolerant or non-responsive multidrug-resistant pulmonary TB.
In July 2020, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) also approved pretomanid for conditional access under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP), making India the second country in the world to provide regulatory approval for this product.

Learn about pretomanid’s development and review the latest updates here.
About Pretomanid
Pretomanid is a new chemical entity and a member of a class of compounds known as nitroimidazooxazines. Novel compounds are important in pursuing new TB treatments because resistance to drugs and drug classes currently used to treat TB is widespread. During early development, pretomanid was referred to as PA-824. Pretomanid was developed by TB Alliance as an oral tablet formulation for the treatment of tuberculosis in combination with other anti-tuberculosis agents.
One such combination is BPaL, which consists of bedaquiline + pretomanid + linezolid.
Learn more about pretomanid here.
About the BPaL Regimen
Pretomanid as part of the BPaL regimen is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adults with pulmonary extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) or multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) that is treatment-intolerant or non-responsive.
BPaL was first studied in the Nix-TB trial, which enrolled people with XDR-TB as well as treatment-intolerant or non-responsive MDR-TB. Nix-TB data have demonstrated a successful outcome in 95 of the first 107 patients after six months of treatment with BPaL and six months of post-treatment follow-up. For two patients, treatment was extended to nine months.
Current therapy for drug-resistant TB often requires people to take drugs for 6 months to 2 years or longer—or risk developing more difficult to treat drug-resistant TB. The WHO reports historical treatment success for XDR-TB at about 34 percent. BPaL has been tested in drug-resistant TB patients co-infected with HIV, including those receiving antiretrovirals (ARVs).
Scientific Publications
A full list of peer-reviewed research studying pretomanid and pretomanid-containing regimens is available.
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