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ReviewThe Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2020

The challenging pathway towards the identification of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 therapeutics.

Marco Siccardi, Jonathan Schapiro, Giovanni Di Perri, David J Back

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Review in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marco SiccardiDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Jonathan SchapiroNational Hemophilia Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Giovanni Di PerriDepartment of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Amedeo Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
David J BackDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of therapeutic agents against SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19  faces numerous barriers and a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating drug efficacy and toxicity is essential. Experimental and preclinical data should be integrated into a comprehensive analysis, where drug potency, the timing of therapy initiation, drug combinations, variability in systemic and local drug exposure and short- and long-term toxicities represent fundamental factors for the rational identification of candidates and prioritization of clinical investigations. Although the identification of SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics is a priority, rigorous and transparent methodologies are crucial to ensure that accelerated research programmes result in high-quality and reproducible findings.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusAnimalsAntibodies, ViralAntiviral AgentsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Drug DiscoveryHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Antibodies, ViralAntiviral Agents

Identifiers

PMID32591771
PMCPMC7337743

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