Chloroquine to fight COVID-19: A consideration of mechanisms and adverse effects?

The COVID-19 outbreak emerged in December 2019 and has rapidly become a global pandemic. A great deal of effort has been made to find effective drugs against this disease. Chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were widely adopted in treating COVID-19, but the results were contradictive. CQ/H...

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Main Authors: Xiping Zhan, Sharon Dowell, Ying Shen, Dexter L. Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Heliyon
Subjects:
HCN
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020317436