Hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic derivative of chloroquine, is effective in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro

  • Cell Discov. 2020 Mar 18;6:16. doi: 10.1038/s41421-020-0156-0.
Jia Liu   #  1 ,  Ruiyuan Cao   #  2 ,  Mingyue Xu   #  1  3 ,  Xi Wang  1 ,  Huanyu Zhang  1  3 ,  Hengrui Hu  1  3 ,  Yufeng Li  1  3 ,  Zhihong Hu  1 ,  Wu Zhong  2 ,  Manli Wang  1
Affiliations
  • 1. 1State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 430071 Wuhan, China.
  • 2. 2National Engineering Research Center for the Emergency Drug, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 100850 Beijing, China.
  • 3. 3University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China.
  • # Contributed equally.
Keywords
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