The Institut Pasteur de Lille has tested more than 2,000 molecules to find an effective treatment against the coronavirus and is now relying on an already existing antibiotic, octophene.
A clinical trial should be launched in the coming weeks, assures Xavier Nassif, director of the institute.
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It is a hope for the fight against the coronavirus.
After having tested more than 2,000 molecules, the Institut Pasteur de Lille could finally have found an effective treatment to treat Covid-19.
This is an existing drug, octofen, previously prescribed to treat nasopharyngitis.
"It could be promising," says Xavier Nassif, director of the Pasteur Institute in Lille, guest of Europe 1 on Friday morning.
A clinical trial should be launched between the end of April and the beginning of May.
"It's going to take place, it's a matter of weeks."
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