Department of Prevention, Local Health Authority of Lecce (ASL Lecce), Lecce, Italy.
Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA), Milan, Italy.
Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2020 Jul;393(7):1153-1156. doi: 10.1007/s00210-020-01902-5. Epub 2020 May 27.
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that has shown also an effective pharmacological activity towards various infective agents, including viruses. This paper proposes an alternative mechanism of action for this drug that makes it capable of having an antiviral action, also against the novel coronavirus, in addition to the processes already reported in literature.
伊维菌素是一种抗寄生虫药物,它对包括病毒在内的各种感染性病原体也表现出有效的药理活性。本文提出了这种药物的另一种作用机制,使其能够具有抗病毒作用,不仅针对新型冠状病毒,还针对文献中已经报道的过程。