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Volume 17 Issue 7 - 2021
Tenofovir as a Treatment for COVID-19
Faculty of Pharmacy, Manara University, Syria
*Corresponding Author: Usama Alanan, Faculty of Pharmacy, Manara University, Syria.
Received: March 21, 2021; Published: June 30, 2021
Abstract
After the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 - the cause of COVID-19 - we need an effective antiviral agent to stop the spread of this epidemic. Tenofovir (of the same pharmacological group as Remdesivir) speeds up recovery in COVID-19 patients by inhibiting viral RNA polyphens. Tenofovir could be an option for treating COVID-19 patients due to its good availability in the pharmaceutical market and many studies on its therapeutic properties and effects over a long period of time (such as treatment of HIV and hepatitis B virus) and its acceptable price in many countries (especially Third World countries) compared to other proposed drugs for treating Covid 19.
Keywords: Tenofovir; COVID-19
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Citation: Usama Alanan., et al. “Tenofovir as a Treatment for COVID-19”. EC Microbiology 17.7 (2021): 100-103.
Copyright: © 2021 Usama Alanan., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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