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ReviewWorld journal of clinical cases2021

Theory and reality of antivirals against SARS-CoV-2.

Bo Zhao, Teng-Fei Yang, Rui Zheng

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Review in World journal of clinical cases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Bo ZhaoDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China.
Teng-Fei YangDepartment of Health Management and Family Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China.
Rui ZhengDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China. zhengr@sj-hospital.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At present, over 180 million people have been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) worldwide and there have been more than 3.8 million deaths due to the virus. However, specific effective antiviral treatment for this infectious disease is absent. At the beginning of the epidemic, relevant cellular and animal experiments of antiviral treatment for SARS-CoV-2 were conducted based on the prior studies of SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Some antivirals were preliminarily validated to be potentially effective in the clinical settings. But as the epidemic continued and more studies were carried out, the efficacy of these antiviral drugs became controversial. This paper reviews the pharmacology and application of interferon, lopinavir/ritonavir, ribavirin, chloroquine, arbidol, favipiravir, remdesivir, and thymosin α1 in coronavirus disease 2019. The actual effect of these drugs remains controversial. Meanwhile, the efficacy and safety of these drugs for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 still need to be explored.

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AntiviralsEfficacyMiddle East respiratory syndrome coronavirusSafetySARS-CoV-2

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PMID34447813
PMCPMC8362513

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