Drug repurposing for new, efficient, broad spectrum antivirals

Virus Research
Moisés García-SerradillaBeatriz Pacheco

Abstract

Emerging viruses are a major threat to human health. Recent outbreaks have emphasized the urgent need for new antiviral treatments. For several pathogenic viruses, considerable efforts have focused on vaccine development. However, during epidemics infected individuals need to be treated urgently. High-throughput screening of clinically tested compounds provides a rapid means to identify undiscovered, antiviral functions for well-characterized therapeutics. Repurposed drugs can bypass part of the early cost and time needed for validation and authorization. In this review we describe recent efforts to find broad spectrum antivirals through drug repurposing. We have chosen several candidates and propose strategies to understand their mechanism of action and to determine how resistance to antivirals develops in infected cells.

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
glycosylation
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electron microscopy

Clinical Trials Mentioned

NCT01215643
NCT02753699

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