Trial reportThe Journal of international medical research2021
Ivermectin in combination with doxycycline for treating COVID-19 symptoms: a randomized trial.
Trial report in The Journal of international medical research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04523831 (A Phase III Trial to Promote Recovery From Covid 19 With Combined Doxycycline and Ivermectin Along Standard Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 56 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Phase III Trial to Promote Recovery From Covid 19 With Combined Doxycycline and Ivermectin Along Standard Care
Who cites it
56 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.
- Drug treatments for mild or moderate covid-19: systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Pooled it
- Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Ivermectin under scrutiny: a systematic review and meta-analysis of efficacy and possible sources of controversies in COVID-19 patients.Virology journal · 2022Pooled it
- Bias as a source of inconsistency in ivermectin trials for COVID-19: A systematic review. Ivermectin's suggested benefits are mainly based on potentially biased results.Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2022Pooled it
- Comparative effectiveness of pharmacological interventions on mortality and the average length of hospital stay of patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2022Pooled it
- The Fragility of Statistically Significant Results in Randomized Clinical Trials for COVID-19.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- Comparison of Trials Using Ivermectin for COVID-19 Between Regions With High and Low Prevalence of Strongyloidiasis: A Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of antiviral therapies for COVID-19: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians · 2021Pooled it
- Antibiotics for the treatment of COVID-19.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Efficacy of COVID-19 Treatments: A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
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- Ivermectin to prevent hospitalizations in patients with COVID-19 (IVERCOR-COVID19) a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Trial
- Safety and Tolerability of Multimodal Therapy (Ivermectin, Doxycycline, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc) With or Without Famotidine in Australian Patients With COVID-19 Infection: A Pilot Cohort Trial.American journal of therapeuticsTrial
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- Repositioning of Antibiotics in the Treatment of Viral Infections.Current microbiology · 2024Review
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15 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveWe evaluated whether ivermectin combined with doxycycline reduced the clinical recovery time in adults with COVID-19 infection.
methodsThis was a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trial in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 symptoms randomly assigned to treatment (n = 200) and placebo (n = 200) groups. The primary outcome was duration from treatment to clinical recovery. Secondary outcomes were disease progression and persistent COVID-19 positivity by RT-PCR.
resultsAmong 556 screened patients, 400 were enrolled and 363 completed follow-up. The mean patient age was 40 years, and 59% were men. The median recovery time was 7 (4-10, treatment group) and 9 (5-12, placebo group) days (hazard ratio, 0.73; 95% confidence interval, 0.60-0.90). The number of patients with a ≤7-day recovery was 61% (treatment group) and 44% (placebo groups) (hazard ratio, 0.06; 95% confidence interval, 0.04-0.09). The proportion of patients who remained RT-PCR positive on day 14 and whose disease did not progress was significantly lower in the treatment group than in the placebo group.
conclusionsPatients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infection treated with ivermectin plus doxycycline recovered earlier, were less likely to progress to more serious disease, and were more likely to be COVID-19 negative by RT-PCR on day 14.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04523831. DATA REPOSITORY ID: Dryad. doi:10.5061/dryad.qjq2bvqf6.
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