- According to a Chinese study, treatment with chloroquine would be effective against malaria.
- This treatment, taken in tablet form, is usually used to treat malaria.
A common treatment with chloroquine, a drug commonly used against malaria, has shown signs of efficacy against the coronavirus, according to Professor Didier Raoult, director of the Institut Méditerranée Infection, which is based on the results of a clinical study. Chinese.
Online since February 19, the first publication on this clinical study by three Chinese researchers in the journal BioScience Trends draws its results from a clinical trial conducted in more than ten Chinese hospitals (in Wuhan - epicenter of the epidemic -, Beijing and Shanghai in particular) to measure "the effectiveness of chloroquine on the treatment of pneumonia associated with Covid-19".
A treatment of only ten days is enough
"The results obtained so far on more than 100 patients have shown that chloroquine phosphate was more effective than the treatment received by the comparative group to contain the evolution of pneumonia, to improve the state of the lungs, so that the patient becomes negative again for the virus and to shorten the duration of the disease, "specify the Chinese researchers. The short study does not, however, quantify this difference in effectiveness.
"The antiviral and anti-inflammatory capacities of chloroquine could play a role in its potential effectiveness in treating patients suffering from pneumonia caused by Covid-19", continues the article on the study carried out by professors Jianjun Gao, Zhenxue Tian and Xu Yang, from Qingdao University and Qingdao Hospital. News all the more interesting that "chloroquine is an inexpensive and safe drug, used for over 70 years," insists the article. According to Chinese researchers, a treatment of 500 mg of chloroquine per day for ten days would be sufficient.
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