Data on chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine content in compounded oral suspension after filtration and centrifugation.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 outbreak is spreading worldwide pushing the national healthcare systems to find effective protocols to prevent contagion and to reduce the patients' mortality and the severity of long-term effects. In the absence of authorised pharmacological treatments, chloroquine, and hydroxychloroquine, which are known as anti-malaria drugs, had been widely used off-label until concerns about their efficacy/safety limited their use to hospitalized patients affected by severe COVID-19. Regardless of their clinical use, their manipulation is necessary since the pure drug substance is not always promptly available and most of the drug products available on the market are tablets designed to be ingested; no liquid dosage forms are available. These are needed for children and the enteral nutrit

SUBMITTER: Musazzi UM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7395607 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature