A painful lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for broad-spectrum, host-directed antivirals

Abstract While the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred intense research and collaborative discovery worldwide, the development of a safe, effective, and targeted antiviral from the ground up is time intensive. Therefore, most antiviral discovery efforts are focused on the re-purposing of clinical stage or...

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Main Authors: Vipul C. Chitalia, Ali H. Munawar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Journal of Translational Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12967-020-02476-9