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The research leading to these results has received funding from the Swedish Research Council in addition to the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (www.imi.europe.eu) under grant agreement n°115337, resources of which are composed of financial contribution from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and EFPIA companies' in kind contribution. ; Accumulating evidence suggest that increasing doses of rifampicin may shorten tuberculosis treatment. The PanACEA HIGHRIF1 trial assessed safety, pharmacokinetics and anti-mycobacterial activity of rifampicin at doses up to 40 mg/kg. Eighty-three pulmonary tuberculosis patients received 10, 20, 25, 30, 35 or 40 mg/kg rifampicin daily over 2 weeks, supplemented with standard doses of isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol in the second week. This study aimed at characterizing rifampicin pharmacokinetics observed in HIGHRIF1 using non-linear mixed effects modeling. The final population pharmacokinetic model included an enzyme turn-over model accounting for time-dependent elimination due to auto-induction, concentration-dependent clearance and dose-dependent bioavailability. The relationship between clearance and concentration was characterized by a Michaelis-Menten relationship. The relationship between bioavailability and dose was described using an Emax relationship. The model will be key in determining exposure-response relationships for rifampicin and should be considered when designing future trials and when treating future patients with high dose rifampicin. ; Publisher PDF ; Peer reviewed