Article
The oral drug nitazoxanide restricts SARS-CoV-2 infection and attenuates disease pathogenesis in Syrian hamsters
2022-02-09
Abstract excerpt
A well-tolerated and cost-effective oral drug that blocks SARS-CoV-2 growth and dissemination would be a major advance in the global effort to reduce COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Here, we show that the oral FDA-approved drug nitazoxanide (NTZ) significantly inhibits SARS-CoV-2 viral replication and infection in different primate and human cell models including stem cell-derived human alveolar epithelial type...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bf4bfa4d-ad68-5da1-bf4f-1be89fbbda90
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.02.08.479634
