The oral drug nitazoxanide restricts SARS-CoV-2 infection and attenuates disease pathogenesis in Syrian hamsters
Miorin et al.,
The oral drug nitazoxanide restricts SARS-CoV-2 infection and attenuates disease pathogenesis in Syrian..,
bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2022.02.08.479634 (Preprint)
In Vitro study showing that nitazoxanide inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in H9, iAT2, Vero E6, Vero TMPRSS2, and Ace2-A549 cells.
Syrian hamster study showing improvements in SARS-CoV-2 related weight loss, inflammation, viral load, and lung synctia formation with nitazoxanide.
Miorin et al., 9 Feb 2022, preprint, 35 authors.
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The oral drug nitazoxanide restricts SARS-CoV-2 infection and attenuates
disease pathogenesis in Syrian hamsters
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§Lisa Miorin1,2,#, Chad E. Mire3,#, Shahin Ranjbar4,#,
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Adam J. Hume5,6, Jessie Huang7,8, Nicholas A. Crossland5,9, Kris M White1,2, Manon Laporte1,2,
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Thomas Kehrer1,2, Viraga Haridas4, Elena Moreno1,2, Aya Nambu4, Sonia Jangra1,2,
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Anastasija Cupic1,2, Marion Dejosez10, Kristine A. Abo7,8, Anna E. Tseng5,9,
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Rhiannon B. Werder7,8, Raveen Rathnasinghe1,2, Tinaye Mutetwa1, Irene Ramos1,
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Julio Sainz de Aja11, Carolina Garcia de Alba Rivas11, Michael Schotsaert1,2, Ronald B. Corley5,9,
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James V. Falvo4, Ana Fernandez-Sesma1, Carla Kim11,12,13, Jean-François Rossignol14,
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Andrew A. Wilson7,8, Thomas Zwaka10, Darrell N. Kotton7,8,9, Elke Mühlberger5,6,
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Adolfo García-Sastre1,2,15,16,17, §Anne E. Goldfeld4,18,19
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Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 2Global Health
Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 3University
of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; 4Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston
Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 5National Emerging Infectious Diseases
Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA 6Department of Microbiology, Boston University School
of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; 7Center for Regenerative Medicine of Boston University and Boston Medical
Center, Boston, MA, USA; 8The Pulmonary Center and Department of Medicine, Boston University School
of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; 9Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University
School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; 10Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai; New York, NY, USA; 11Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston,
MA, USA; 12Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 13Department of Genetics, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 14Romark Institute for Medical Research, Tampa, FL, USA;15Department
of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA;
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Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 17Department of
Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA; 18Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 19Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.C.
Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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#These authors contributed equally
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§To whom correspondence should be addressed:
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Lisa Miorin: lisa.miorin@mssm.edu; Anne E. Goldfeld: anne.goldfeld@childrens.harvard.edu
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bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.08.479634; this version posted February 9, 2022. The copyright holder for this preprint
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A well-tolerated and cost-effective oral drug that..
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