1. Review study on Effect of Prophylactic treatment of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in health care workers in covid-19.
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PATEL, VISHVA S., BHATT, PARLOOP AMIT, and DARJI, VINAY CHHANALAL
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HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE , *COVID-19 pandemic , *PREVENTIVE medicine , *MEDICAL personnel , *CHEMOPREVENTION - Abstract
SARS-Cov-2 infection is liable for the worldwide pandemic with advancement of sickness called COVID-19. This has pushed the medical services framework to an emergency and delivered an immense weight on medical care experts. High outflow ability and huge mortality of this infection demonstrate the need thoughtfulness regarding this issue So, The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has suggested chemoprophylaxis with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an enemy of malarial medication, for asymptomatic Health Care Workers (HCWs) and other cutting-edge workers conveyed in non-COVID-19 and COVID-19 regions, individually. In this investigation, we have looked through different information bases like PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, World Health Organization (WHO), ICMR and so on to assess whether HCQ can be utilized as prophylaxis for healthcare workers in COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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