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. 2016 Nov;22(11):919-921.
doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2016.09.006. Epub 2016 Sep 28.

Drug Repurposing: New Treatments for Zika Virus Infection?

Feixiong Cheng  1 , James L Murray  2 , Donald H Rubin  3
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Drug Repurposing: New Treatments for Zika Virus Infection?

Feixiong Cheng et al. Trends Mol Med. 2016 Nov.

Abstract

To date, no antiviral agents have been approved for treating Zika virus (ZIKV) infection. Two recent drug-repurposing studies published in Cell Host & Microbe and Nature Medicine demonstrated that screening FDA-approved drugs for antiviral activity is a promising strategy for identifying therapeutics with novel activity against ZIKV infection.

Keywords: Zika virus; antiviral; drug repurposing; mechanism-of-action.

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