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Repurposing Quaternary Ammonium Compounds as Potential Treatments for COVID-19

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PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages -

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SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11095-020-02842-8

Keywords

ammonium chloride; antiseptic; cetylpyridinium chloride; SARS-CoV-2

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  1. NIH: NIGMS [R44GM122196-02A1]
  2. NIH: NCATS [R21TR001718]
  3. NIH: NCCAM [R43AT010585-01S1]
  4. NIH [1OT2TR002514-01]

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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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