Very Long-acting Antivirals as Chemovaccines for Preventing Viral Infections
Very Long-acting Antivirals as Chemovaccines for Preventing Viral Infections
Vicente Soriano 1, Pablo Barreiro 2
1 UNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Center, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Madrid, Spain; 2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Carlos III-La Paz University Hospital. Madrid, Spain
*Correspondence: Pablo Barreiro, Email not available
Abstract
Following the advent of penicillin as first widely used antibiotic during World War II, viruses have steadily replaced bacteria as major agents of infections, particularly for microorganisms that can spread globally. Good examples are pandemics caused by HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and nowadays severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the coronavirus of coronavirus disease (COVID)-19.
