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South Korean researchers identified two more remedies which showed promising signs against the new coronavirus in laboratory tests. The two drugs were shown to be able to overcome the cause of Covid-19 in laboratory tests on cells.
Both drugs have already been approved in the United States for the treatment of other diseases, which should facilitate their use against Covid-19. However, the results, scientists say, are still preliminary and no human testing has been done. The research was published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, specialized journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
For the study, the researchers tested 46 drugs (all used to treat other diseases) on Vero cells, a strain developed from the kidney cells of the African green monkey. These cells are commonly used in virus culture for vaccine production.
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One of the drugs is vermifuge niclosamide, which is used to treat leasing. “Not surprisingly, its broad-spectrum antiviral effect has been well documented in the literature, including antiviral properties against SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome),” the authors state in a press release.
