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SUBMITTER: Oestereich L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4760419 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oestereich Lisa L Rieger Toni T Lüdtke Anja A Ruibal Paula P Wurr Stephanie S Pallasch Elisa E Bockholt Sabrina S Krasemann Susanne S Muñoz-Fontela César C Günther Stephan S
The Journal of infectious diseases 20151103 6
We studied the therapeutic potential of favipiravir (T-705) for Lassa fever, both alone and in combination with ribavirin. Favipiravir suppressed Lassa virus replication in cell culture by 5 log10 units. In a novel lethal mouse model, it lowered the viremia level and the virus load in organs and normalized levels of cell-damage markers. Treatment with 300 mg/kg per day, commenced 4 days after infection, when the viremia level had reached 4 log10 virus particles/mL, rescued 100% of Lassa virus-in ...[more]