Is Hydroxychloroquine a Possible Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Drug to Limit the Transmission to Health Care Workers Exposed to COVID19?

Pagliano et al., Clin. Infect. Dis., 2020 Mar 24, doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa320 (Theory)

Pagliano et al., Is Hydroxychloroquine a Possible Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Drug to Limit the Transmission to Health Care.., Clin. Infect. Dis., 2020 Mar 24, doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa320 (Theory)

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CQ and HCQ inhibit replication at early stages of infection, no similar effect reported for other drugs which are only able to interfere after cell infection. Large volume of existing data on safety. (8/23: we corrected the classification of this study)

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Pagliano et al., 24 Mar 2020, peer-reviewed, 5 authors.

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2019 Novel Coronavirus Is Undergoing Active Recombination

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www. maths.otago.ac.nz/~dbryant/software/phimanual. pdf 9. Jiang X, Robertson DL. nCoV's relationship to bat coronaviruses and recombination signals (no snakes)-no evidence the 2019-nCoV lineage is recombinant. 2020.

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