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. 2020 May 21;19:176–182. doi: 10.1016/j.jtos.2020.05.011

Table 2.

Proposed Agents For Initial Ocular Surface anti-SARS-CoV-2 Intervention.

Proposed Agents For Initial Ocular Surface anti-SARS-CoV-2 Intervention
Agent Anti- SARS-CoV-2 Effect Ocular Surface Application (for SARS-CoV-2-unrelated disease)
In Vivo In Vitro Clinical Human Animal
Chloroquine Phosphate +72 -a73 ±74 +75,76(0.03%) 0
OHChloroquine +72 0 ±74 0 0
Azithromycin +77 0 ±77 +78,79(1–1.5% +80,81 (0.2–1.5%)
Zinc +aa82s 0 0 +83(0.25% as SO4) +84 (0.5%)

+ denotes efficacy, - denotes inefficacy, ± denotes equivocal results, 0 denotes lack of studies.

a

For SARS-CoV.