The anti-influenza virus drug, arbidol is an efficient inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro

  • Cell Discov. 2020 May 2;6:28. doi: 10.1038/s41421-020-0169-8.
Xi Wang   #  1 ,  Ruiyuan Cao   #  2 ,  Huanyu Zhang   #  1  3 ,  Jia Liu  1 ,  Mingyue Xu  1  3 ,  Hengrui Hu  1  3 ,  Yufeng Li  1  3 ,  Lei Zhao  2 ,  Wei Li  2 ,  Xiulian Sun  1 ,  Xinglou Yang  1 ,  Zhengli Shi  1 ,  Fei Deng  1  4 ,  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, Wuhan, 430071 China.
  • 2. 2National Engineering Research Center for the Emergency Drug, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing, 100850 China.
  • 3. 3University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China.
  • 4. 4National Virus Resource Center, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071 China.
  • # Contributed equally.
PMID: 32373347 DOI: 10.1038/s41421-020-0169-8
Keywords
Cell biology; Molecular biology.
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