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The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection
In recent decades, drugs used to treat malaria infection have been shown to be beneficial for many other diseases, including viral infections. In particular, they have received special attention due to the lack of effective antiviral drugs against new emerging viruses (i.e., HIV, dengue virus, chiku...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7022795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31936284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8010085 |
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author | D’Alessandro, Sarah Scaccabarozzi, Diletta Signorini, Lucia Perego, Federica Ilboudo, Denise P. Ferrante, Pasquale Delbue, Serena |
author_facet | D’Alessandro, Sarah Scaccabarozzi, Diletta Signorini, Lucia Perego, Federica Ilboudo, Denise P. Ferrante, Pasquale Delbue, Serena |
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description | In recent decades, drugs used to treat malaria infection have been shown to be beneficial for many other diseases, including viral infections. In particular, they have received special attention due to the lack of effective antiviral drugs against new emerging viruses (i.e., HIV, dengue virus, chikungunya virus, Ebola virus, etc.) or against classic infections due to drug-resistant viral strains (i.e., human cytomegalovirus). Here, we reviewed the in vitro/in vivo and clinical studies conducted to evaluate the antiviral activities of four classes of antimalarial drugs: Artemisinin derivatives, aryl-aminoalcohols, aminoquinolines, and antimicrobial drugs. |
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spelling | pubmed-70227952020-03-11 The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection D’Alessandro, Sarah Scaccabarozzi, Diletta Signorini, Lucia Perego, Federica Ilboudo, Denise P. Ferrante, Pasquale Delbue, Serena Microorganisms Review In recent decades, drugs used to treat malaria infection have been shown to be beneficial for many other diseases, including viral infections. In particular, they have received special attention due to the lack of effective antiviral drugs against new emerging viruses (i.e., HIV, dengue virus, chikungunya virus, Ebola virus, etc.) or against classic infections due to drug-resistant viral strains (i.e., human cytomegalovirus). Here, we reviewed the in vitro/in vivo and clinical studies conducted to evaluate the antiviral activities of four classes of antimalarial drugs: Artemisinin derivatives, aryl-aminoalcohols, aminoquinolines, and antimicrobial drugs. MDPI 2020-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7022795/ /pubmed/31936284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8010085 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review D’Alessandro, Sarah Scaccabarozzi, Diletta Signorini, Lucia Perego, Federica Ilboudo, Denise P. Ferrante, Pasquale Delbue, Serena The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection |
title | The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection |
title_full | The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection |
title_fullStr | The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection |
title_full_unstemmed | The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection |
title_short | The Use of Antimalarial Drugs against Viral Infection |
title_sort | use of antimalarial drugs against viral infection |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7022795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31936284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8010085 |
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