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Nancy Baker1, Antony J Williams2, Alexander Tropsha3
1Leidos, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Pharmaceutical Research
|May 27, 2020
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an important role for drug repurposing. Quaternary ammonium compounds such as ammonium chloride, cetylpyridinium and miramistin represent widely accessible antiseptic molecules with well-known broad-spectrum antiviral activities and represent a repurposing opportunity as therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2.
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