Drug repurposing of nitazoxanide: can it be an effective therapy for COVID-19?

The current outbreak of pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) aggravates serious need for effective therapeutics. Over recent years, drug repurposing has been accomplished as an important opportunity in drug development as it shortens the time consumed for development, besides sparing the cost and the efforts exerted in the research and development process. The FDA-approved antiparasitic drug, nitazoxanide (NTZ), has been found to have...