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SUBMITTER: Kruger D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7439010 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kruger Donna D Prathapan Praveen P
Journal of translational autoimmunity 20200820
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]