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SUBMITTER: Sakurai Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374029 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sakurai Yasuteru Y Sakakibara Norikazu N Toyama Masaaki M Baba Masanori M Davey Robert A RA
Antiviral research 20181103
Ebola virus disease is a severe disease caused by highly pathogenic Ebolaviruses. Although it shows a high mortality rate in humans, currently there is no licensed therapeutic. During the recent epidemic in West Africa, it was demonstrated that administration of antimalarial medication containing amodiaquine significantly lowered mortality rate of patients infected with the virus. Here, in order to improve its antiviral activity, a series of amodiaquine derivatives were synthesized and tested fo ...[more]