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SUBMITTER: Firth A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7434625 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Firth Anton A Prathapan Praveen P
European journal of medicinal chemistry 20200819
The Strategic Plan for Biodefense Research by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services demarcates the need for drugs which target multiple types of pathogens to prepare for infectious threats. Azithromycin is one such broad-spectrum therapeutic that is both included in the University of Oxford's RECOVERY and excluded from the World Health Organization's SOLIDARITY trials. Here we review azithromycin's broad antibiotic, antimalarial, antiviral pharmacology and contextualise it against a b ...[more]