Zika and Other Emerging Viruses: Aiming at the Right Target

The Zika emergency calls for urgent countermeasures. Recently, Barrows et al. (2016) and Xu et al. (2016) conducted in vitro anti-ZIKV screens to identify potential therapeutics. The off-label use of drugs that may protect against Zika virus-induced brain damage has, however, to be balanced with the...

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Autores principales: Dallmeier, Kai, Neyts, Johan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27736642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2016.09.011
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spelling pubmed-71722292020-04-22 Zika and Other Emerging Viruses: Aiming at the Right Target Dallmeier, Kai Neyts, Johan Cell Host Microbe Article The Zika emergency calls for urgent countermeasures. Recently, Barrows et al. (2016) and Xu et al. (2016) conducted in vitro anti-ZIKV screens to identify potential therapeutics. The off-label use of drugs that may protect against Zika virus-induced brain damage has, however, to be balanced with their risk during pregnancy. Elsevier Inc. 2016-10-12 2016-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7172229/ /pubmed/27736642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2016.09.011 Text en © 2016 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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