Timing of antiviral treatment initiation is critical to reduce SARS‐CoV‐2 viral load

A Gonçalves, J Bertrand, R Ke… - CPT …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We modeled the viral dynamics of 13 untreated patients infected with severe acute
respiratory syndrome‐coronavirus 2 to infer viral growth parameters and predict the effects …

A quantitative model used to compare within-host SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV dynamics provides insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of SARS …

KS Kim, K Ejima, S Iwanami, Y Fujita, H Ohashi… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The scientific community is focused on developing antiviral therapies to mitigate the impacts
of the ongoing novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. This will be facilitated …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of significant antiviral drug effects on COVID-19 with reasonable sample sizes in randomized controlled trials: A modeling study

S Iwanami, K Ejima, KS Kim, K Noshita, Y Fujita… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Development of an effective antiviral drug for Coronavirus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) is a global health priority. Although several candidate drugs have been …

Success of prophylactic antiviral therapy for SARS-CoV-2: Predicted critical efficacies and impact of different drug-specific mechanisms of action

P Czuppon, F Débarre, A Gonçalves… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Repurposed drugs that are safe and immediately available constitute a first line of defense
against new viral infections. Despite limited antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, several …

Potency and timing of antiviral therapy as determinants of duration of SARS-CoV-2 shedding and intensity of inflammatory response

A Goyal, EF Cardozo-Ojeda, JT Schiffer - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
To affect the COVID-19 pandemic, lifesaving antiviral therapies must be identified. The
number of clinical trials that can be performed is limited. We developed mathematical …

Modeling SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics and association with mortality in hospitalized patients from the French COVID cohort

N Néant, G Lingas, Q Le Hingrat… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The characterization of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
viral kinetics in hospitalized patients and its association with mortality is unknown. We …

Mechanistic modeling of SARS‐CoV‐2 and other infectious diseases and the effects of therapeutics

AS Perelson, R Ke - Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Modern viral kinetic modeling and its application to therapeutics is a field that attracted the
attention of the medical, pharmaceutical, and modeling communities during the early days of …

SARS-CoV-2 viral dynamics in non-human primates

A Gonçalves, P Maisonnasse, F Donati… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Non-human primates infected with SARS-CoV-2 exhibit mild clinical signs. Here we used a
mathematical model to characterize in detail the viral dynamics in 31 cynomolgus macaques …

Prioritization of anti‐SARS‐Cov‐2 drug repurposing opportunities based on plasma and target site concentrations derived from their established human …

U Arshad, H Pertinez, H Box, L Tatham… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a rapidly expanding literature on the in vitro antiviral activity of drugs that may be
repurposed for therapy or chemoprophylaxis against severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Drugs against SARS‐CoV‐2: What do we know about their mode of action?

C Valle, B Martin, F Touret, A Shannon… - Reviews in medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The health emergency caused by the recent Covid‐19 pandemic highlights the need to
identify effective treatments against the virus causing this disease (SARS‐CoV‐2). The first …