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Artemisia Spp. derivatives for COVID-19 treatment : anecdotal use, political hype, treatment potential, challenges, and road map to randomized clinical trials
Kapepula, Paulin M.; Kabengele, Jimmy K.; Kingombe, Micheline; Van Bambeke, Francoise; Tulkens, Paul M.; Kishabongo, Antoine Sadiki; Decloedt, Eric; Zumla, Adam; Tiberi, Simon; Suleman, Fatima; Tshilolo, Leon; Muyembe-TamFum, Jean-Jacques; Zumla, Alimuddin; Nachega, Jean B. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020)The world is currently facing a novel COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 that, as of July 12, 2020, has caused a reported 12,322,395 cases and 556,335 deaths. To date, only two treatments, remdesivir and dexamethasone, ... -
Simulating therapeutic drug monitoring results for dose individualisation to maintain investigator blinding in a randomised controlled trial
Lesosky, Maia; Joska, John; Decloedt, Eric (BioMed Central, 2017-06-07)Background: Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is essential practice when dosing drugs with a narrow therapeutic index in order to achieve a plasma drug concentration within a narrow target range above the efficacy concentration ...