The DOI matches its Crossref record; 12 of the 12 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Approved Antiviral Drugs over the Past 50 Years
Open accessAbstract
SUMMARY: Since the first antiviral drug, idoxuridine, was approved in 1963, 90 antiviral drugs categorized into 13 functional groups have been formally approved for the treatment of the following 9 human infectious diseases: (i) HIV infections (protease inhibitors, integrase inhibitors, entry inhibitors, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, and acyclic nucleoside phosphonate analogues), (ii) hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections (lamivudine, interferons, nucleoside analogues, and acyclic nucleoside phosphonate analogues), (iii) hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections (ribavirin, interferons, NS3/4A protease inhibitors, NS5A inhibitors, and NS5B polymerase inhibitors), (iv) herpesvirus infections (5-substituted 2′-deoxyuridine analogues, entry inhibitors, nucleoside analogues, pyrophosphate analogues, and acyclic guanosine analogues), (v) influenza virus infections (ribavirin, matrix 2 protein inhibitors, RNA polymerase inhibitors, and neuraminidase inhibitors), (vi) human cytomegalovirus infections (acyclic guanosine analogues, acyclic nucleoside phosphonate analogues, pyrophosphate analogues, and oligonucleotides), (vii) varicella-zoster virus infections (acyclic guanosine analogues, nucleoside analogues, 5-substituted 2′-deoxyuridine analogues, and antibodies), (viii) respiratory syncytial virus infections (ribavirin and antibodies), and (ix) external anogenital warts caused by human papillomavirus infections (imiquimod, sinecatechins, and podofilox). Here, we present for the first time a comprehensive overview of antiviral drugs approved over the past 50 years, shedding light on the development of effective antiviral treatments against current and emerging infectious diseases worldwide.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Nair, H., Nokes, D. J., Gessner, B. D., Dherani, M., Madhi, S. A., Singleton, R. J., O'Brien, K. L., Roca, A., Wright, P. F., Bruce, N., et al. (2010) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60206-1 · Cited by 2,773
Rational design of potent sialidase-based inhibitors of influenza virus replication
von Itzstein, M., Wu, W.-Y., Kok, G. B., Pegg, M. S., Dyason, J. C., Jin, B., Van Phan, T., Smythe, M. L., White, H. F., Oliver, S. W., et al. (1993) · Nature · doi:10.1038/363418a0 · Cited by 1,862
Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic
Sharp, P. M., & Hahn, B. H. (2011) · Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine · doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a006841 · Cited by 1,496
Furman, P. A., Fyfe, J. A., St Clair, M. H., Weinhold, K., Rideout, J. L., Freeman, G. A., Lehrman, S. N., Bolognesi, D. P., Broder, S., & Mitsuya, H. (1986) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.83.21.8333 · Cited by 1,347
Inhibitors of Strand Transfer That Prevent Integration and Inhibit HIV-1 Replication in Cells
Hazuda, D. J., Felock, P., Witmer, M., Wolfe, A., Stillmock, K., Grobler, J. A., Espeseth, A., Gabryelski, L., Schleif, W., Blau, C., et al. (2000) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.287.5453.646 · Cited by 1,131
Hepatitis C: the clinical spectrum of disease.
Hoofnagle, J. H. (1997) · Hepatology · doi:10.1002/hep.510260703 · Cited by 765
Retroviral intasome assembly and inhibition of DNA strand transfer
Hare, S., Gupta, S. S., Valkov, E., Engelman, A., & Cherepanov, P. (2010) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08784 · Cited by 678
Potter, C. W. (2001) · Journal of Applied Microbiology · doi:10.1046/j.1365-2672.2001.01492.x · Cited by 584
Laboratory and Clinical Aspects of Human Herpesvirus 6 Infections
Agut, H., Bonnafous, P., & Gautheret-Dejean, A. (2015) · Clinical Microbiology Reviews · doi:10.1128/cmr.00122-14 · Cited by 345
Novel HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors Derived from Quinolone Antibiotics
Sato, M., Motomura, T., Aramaki, H., Matsuda, T., Yamashita, M., Ito, Y., Kawakami, H., Matsuzaki, Y., Watanabe, W., Yamataka, K., et al. (2006) · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry · doi:10.1021/jm0600139 · Cited by 328
Cited by
COVID-19: Drug Targets and Potential Treatments
Gil, C., Ginex, T., Maestro, I., Nozal, V., Barrado-Gil, L., Cuesta-Geijo, M. Á., Urquiza, J., Ramírez, D., Alonso, C., Campillo, N. E., et al. (2020) · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00606 · Cited by 445
Das, S., Sarmah, S., Lyndem, S., & Singha Roy, A. (2021) · Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics · doi:10.1080/07391102.2020.1763201 · Cited by 380
Epidemiology and Immune Pathogenesis of Viral Sepsis
Lin, G.-L., McGinley, J. P., Drysdale, S. B., & Pollard, A. J. (2018) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2018.02147 · Cited by 351
A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19
Tang, Z., Kong, N., Zhang, X., Liu, Y., Hu, P., Mou, S., Liljeström, P., Shi, J., Tan, W., Kim, J. S., et al. (2020) · Nature Reviews Materials · doi:10.1038/s41578-020-00247-y · Cited by 303
Sanitizing agents for virus inactivation and disinfection
Lin, Q., Lim, J. Y. C., Xue, K., Yew, P. Y. M., Owh, C., Chee, P. L., & Loh, X. J. (2020) · VIEW · doi:10.1002/viw2.16 · Cited by 271
Metadata
- Authors
- De Clercq, E., & Li, G.
- Venue
- Clinical Microbiology Reviews
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 2016-07
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 695-747
- ISSN
- 0893-8512 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-6618
- OpenAlex
- W2410066853
- Cited by
- 1,430
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 75.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Approved Antiviral Drugs over the Past 50 Years. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1128/cmr.00102-15
- The paper
- De Clercq, E., & Li, G. (2016). Approved Antiviral Drugs over the Past 50 Years. Clinical Microbiology Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00102-15
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
