A Brief Overview of Current Drug Repurposing Approaches for COVID-19 Management

Traektoriâ Nauki

Pedro da Fonseca Soares Rodrigues¹  Douglas Vieira Thomaz² 

[1] Kursk State Medical University;Universidade Federal de Goiás;

关键词: coronavirus;    antiviral;    pandemic;    outbreak;    drug repositioning;    healthcare;   

DOI  :  10.22178/pos.57-1

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This brief overview is intended to shed light on the current drug repositioning (also called drug repurposing) in the therapeutics of the novel coronavirus disease which emerged in 2019 (COVID-19). In this sense, the repositioning drugs for new indications can offer a better risk-versus-reward trade-off when compared to other drug development strategies, given that it makes use of drugs whose safety profile are already understood. Nonetheless, this approach allows healthcare professionals to promptly tackle the disease by investigating readily available drugs against it.