Hydroxychloroquine as Prophylaxis for COVID-19: A Review

• Main Authors: Manuela Monti (Author), Bernadette Vertogen (Author), Carla Masini (Author), Caterina Donati (Author), Claudia Lilli (Author), Chiara Zingaretti (Author), Gerardo Musuraca (Author), Ugo De Giorgi (Author), Claudio Cerchione (Author), Alberto Farolfi (Author), Pietro Cortesi (Author), Pierluigi Viale (Author), Giovanni Martinelli (Author), Oriana Nanni (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has led to a desperate search for effective drugs and vaccines. There are still no approved agents for disease prophylaxis. We thus decided to use a drug repositioning strategy to perform a state-of-the-art review of a promising but controversial drug, h...