The Federal medical-biological Agency provided the Drug for the treatment of coronavirus infection on the basis of the antimalarial drug mefloquine. About It informs the press service of the Agency.
the report notes that the scientific and production center "parsemeta" developed scheme of treatment taking into account Chinese and French experience.
"Drug with high selectivity inhibits the cytopathic effect of the coronavirus in cell culture and inhibit its replication and the immunosuppressive effect of mefloquine inhibits activation of an inflammatory response, caused by a virus. The addition of macrolide antibiotics and synthetic penicillins not only prevents the formation of secondary bacterial and viral syndrome, but also makes it possible to increase the concentration of antiviral agents in the blood plasma and the lungs, " - said the head of the FMBA Veronika Skvortsova.
She stressed, because It will enable effective treatment of patients with COVID-19 different severity.
in addition, on the basis of the development of mefloquine is effective and safe scheme for the prevention of coronavirus, said the press service.
The development is proposed to include in the methodological advice of the Ministry of health.
yesterday the Ministry of health has updated these tips, releasing a fourth version.
for example, an updated section on laboratory diagnosis COVID-19, and expanded scheme of drug therapy. So, the doctors cited several drugs that are used to treat atypical pneumonia and are recommended for use in combination therapy for a new infection.
This is lopinavir ritonavir, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, drugs interferons. In addition, are currently undergoing clinical validation umifenovir, ramdevpir, favipiravir.
The world health organization eleven Mar declared the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus infection COVID-19, which spread from China. According to the final data to who, worldwide, has infected more than 510 thousand people, 23, 5 thousand died.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, COVID-19 sick almost 600 thousand people in the world, more than 27 thousands of dead, 131 thousand recovered. In the 1st three on the number of deaths included Italy, Spain and China.
in Russia the total number of cases of coronavirus has reached 1264 (817 of them in Moscow), 49 recovered, four died.
The latest information on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager. Of the Russian Federation.
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