• Turk J Med Sci · Oct 2021

    Pretreatment serum uric acid level is not a surrogate marker for the outcome of favipiravir treatment in COVID-19 patients.

    • Ahmet Çağkan İnkaya, Emre Kara, Nursel Çalık Başaran, Taha Koray Şahin, Oğuz Abdullah Uyaroğlu, Ömrüm Uzun, and Serhat Ünal.
    • Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
    • Turk J Med Sci. 2021 Oct 1; 51 (5): 278627882786-2788.

    BackgroundTo the editor, Favipiravir (FVP) was developed against the influenza virus infection and licensed for the treatment of influenza in Japan [1]. In addition to influenza viruses, FVP demonstrates a broad-spectrum activity against many RNA viruses including Ebola, Lassa, rabies, and severe fever with thrombocytopenia [2]. FVP exhibited a comparable in vitro efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 with remdesivir in a cell culture model [3].DiscussionThe authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of numerous physicians, nurses, and healthcare personnel of Hacettepe University's COVID-19 response team for their selfless efforts in follow-up and care of the patients. Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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