Evolutionary safety of death by mutagenesis

Abstract excerpt

<title>Abstract</title> <p>Nucleoside analogs are a major class of antiviral drugs. Some act by increasing the viral mutation rate causing “death by mutagenesis” of the virus. Their mutagenic capacity, however, may lead to an evolutionary safety concern. We define evolutionary safety as a probabilistic assurance that the treatment will not generate an increased number of epidemiologically concerning mutated virus...

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• Antiviral Agents
• Models, Genetic
• Mutagenesis
• Mutagens
• Mutation
• Ribavirin
• RNA Viruses
• Viruses

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Literature Corpus work

d2298bd1-83e8-5687-8067-ad4472891b56

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1447083/v1