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SUBMITTER: Patil VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7211740 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Patil Vaishali M VM Singhal Shipra S Masand Neeraj N
Life sciences 20200511
Recent global outbreak of the pandemic caused by coronavirus (COVID-19) emphasizes the urgent need for novel antiviral therapeutics. It can be supplemented by utilization of efficient and validated drug discovery approaches such as drug repurposing/repositioning. The well reported and clinically used anti-malarial aminoquinoline drugs (chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine) have shown potential to be repurposed to control the present pandemic by inhibition of COVID-19. The review elaborates the mec ...[more]