ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Tenofovir, Another Inexpensive, Well-Known and Widely Available Old Drug Repurposed for SARS-COV-2 Infection.
Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 25 papers.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of Tenofovir Alafenamide Fumarate on the outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a prospective, block-balanced, open-label, randomized controlled trial.BMC pharmacology & toxicology · 2024Trial
- Daily tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine and hydroxychloroquine for pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial in healthcare workers.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2023Trial
- Sensing Compound Substructures Combined with Molecular Fingerprinting to Predict Drug-Target Interactions.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2026Article
- An Anti-HIV Drug Is Highly Effective Against SARS-CoV-2 In Vitro and Has Potential Benefit for Long COVID Treatment.Viruses · 2025Article
- SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in African women living with HIV and their infants.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection among people living with HIV: Data from the Balearic cohort (EVHIA).PloS one · 2024Article
- Effects of entecavir and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate on the incidence and severity of COVID-19 in patients with chronic hepatitis B.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Protein structure-based in-silico approaches to drug discovery: Guide to COVID-19 therapeutics.Molecular aspects of medicine · 2023Review
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Status, Tenofovir Exposure, and the Risk of Poor Coronavirus Disease 19 Outcomes: Real-World Analysis From 6 United States Cohorts Before Vaccine Rollout.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- Tenofovir-Containing Antiretroviral Therapy and Clinical Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in People Living with HIV.Viruses · 2023Observational
- Potential RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitors as prospective drug candidates for SARS-CoV-2.European journal of medicinal chemistry · 2023Review
- Immunologic Interplay Between HIV/AIDS and COVID-19: Adding Fuel to the Flames?Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2023Review
- [Sexually transmitted infections under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic].Dermatologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Synthesis of bis-furyl-pyrrolo[3,4-RSC medicinal chemistry · 2023Article
- An update on inhibitors targeting RNA-dependent RNA polymerase for COVID-19 treatment: Promises and challenges.Biochemical pharmacology · 2022Review
- Impact of tenofovir on SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes among people living with HIV: a propensity score-matched study.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Antibacterial and Antiviral Drug Effectiveness in COVID-19 Therapy: A Data-Driven Retrospective Approach.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2022Article
- HIV and SARS-CoV-2 Co-infection: Epidemiological, Clinical Features, and Future Implications for Clinical Care and Public Health for People Living with HIV (PLWH) and HIV Most-at-Risk Groups.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Review
- Repositioning Ivermectin for Covid-19 treatment: Molecular mechanisms of action against SARS-CoV-2 replication.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2022Review
- The Potential of Purinergic Signaling to Thwart Viruses Including SARS-CoV-2.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is spreading worldwide with different clinical manifestations. Age and comorbidities may explain severity in critical cases and people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) might be at particularly high risk for severe progression. Nonetheless, current data, although sometimes contradictory, do not confirm higher morbidity, risk of more severe COVID-19 or higher mortality in HIV-infected people with complete access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). A possible protective role of ART has been hypothesized to explain these observations. Anti-viral drugs used to treat HIV infection have been repurposed for COVID-19 treatment; this is also based on previous studies on severe acute respiratory syndrome virus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome virus (MERS-CoV). Among them, lopinavir/ritonavir, an inhibitor of viral protease, was extensively used early in the pandemic but it was soon abandoned due to lack of effectiveness in clinical trials. However, remdesivir, a nucleotide analog that acts as reverse-transcriptase inhibitor, which was tested early during the pandemic because of its wide range of antiviral activity against several RNA viruses and its safety profile, is currently the only antiviral medication approved for COVID-19. Tenofovir, another nucleotide analog used extensively for HIV treatment and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), has also been hypothesized as effective in COVID-19. No data on tenofovir's efficacy in coronavirus infections other than COVID-19 are currently available, although information relating to SARS-CoV-2 infection is starting to come out. Here, we review the currently available evidence on tenofovir's efficacy against SARS-CoV-2.
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