{"id":157688,"date":"2020-04-06T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=157688"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:17:13","slug":"anti-parasitic-drug-kills-covid-19-in-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/04\/anti-parasitic-drug-kills-covid-19-in-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Parasitic Drug Kills COVID-19 in Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

4 Apr 2020 – <\/em>An anti-parasitic drug available throughout the world has been found to kill COVID-19 in the lab within 48 hours.<\/p>\n

A Monash University-led study has shown a single dose of the drug Ivermectin could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture.<\/p>\n

“We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA (effectively removed all genetic material of the virus) by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it,” Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute’s Dr Kylie Wagstaff said on Friday.<\/p>\n

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While it’s not known how Ivermectin works on the virus, the drug likely stops the virus dampening the host cells’ ability to clear it.<\/p>\n

The next step is for scientists to determine the correct human dosage, to make sure the level used in vitro is safe for humans.<\/p>\n

“In times when we’re having a global pandemic and there isn’t an approved treatment, if we had a compound that was already available around the world then that might help people sooner,” Dr Wagstaff said.<\/p>\n

“Realistically it’s going to be a while before a vaccine is broadly available.”<\/p>\n

Before Ivermectin can be used to combat coronavirus, funding is needed to get it to pre-clinical testing and clinical trials.<\/p>\n

Ivermectin is an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug also shown to be effective in vitro against viruses including HIV, dengue and influenza.<\/p>\n

The study is the joint work of Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity.<\/p>\n

The study findings have been published in Antiviral Research.<\/p>\n

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