Baricitinib Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Is Associated With a Reduction in Secondary Infections

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America..

We performed a secondary analysis of the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT-2) randomized controlled trial and found that baricitinib was associated with a 50% reduction in secondary infections after controlling for baseline and postrandomization patient characteristics. This finding provides a novel mechanism of benefit for baricitinib and supports the safety profile of this immunomodulator for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Open forum infectious diseases - 10(2023), 5 vom: 15. Mai, Seite ofad205

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sweeney, Daniel A [VerfasserIn]
Tuyishimire, Bonifride [VerfasserIn]
Ahuja, Neera [VerfasserIn]
Beigel, John H [VerfasserIn]
Beresnev, Tatiana [VerfasserIn]
Cantos, Valeria D [VerfasserIn]
Castro, Jose G [VerfasserIn]
Cohen, Stuart H [VerfasserIn]
Cross, Kaitlyn [VerfasserIn]
Dodd, Lori E [VerfasserIn]
Erdmann, Nathan [VerfasserIn]
Fung, Monica [VerfasserIn]
Ghazaryan, Varduhi [VerfasserIn]
George, Sarah L [VerfasserIn]
Grimes, Kevin A [VerfasserIn]
Hynes, Noreen A [VerfasserIn]
Julian, Kathleen G [VerfasserIn]
Kandiah, Sheetal [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Hannah Jang [VerfasserIn]
Levine, Corri B [VerfasserIn]
Lindholm, David A [VerfasserIn]
Lye, David C [VerfasserIn]
Maves, Ryan C [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Myoung-Don [VerfasserIn]
Paules, Catharine [VerfasserIn]
Rapaka, Rekha R [VerfasserIn]
Short, Willam R [VerfasserIn]
Tomashek, Kay M [VerfasserIn]
Wolfe, Cameron R [VerfasserIn]
Kalil, Andre C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Baricitinib
COVID-19
Journal Article
Secondary infections

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Date Revised 15.10.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ofid/ofad205

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357091337