Article
Favipiravir antiviral efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 in a hamster model
2020-07-07
Abstract excerpt
Despite no or limited pre-clinical evidence, repurposed drugs are massively evaluated in clinical trials to palliate the lack of antiviral molecules against SARS-CoV-2. Here we used a Syrian hamster model to assess the antiviral efficacy of favipiravir, understand its mechanism of action and determine its pharmacokinetics. When treatment was initiated before or simultaneously to infection, favipiravir had a strong...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cdf96343-1c77-58c7-8534-7e2c29182fa8
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.07.07.191775
