Affiliation:
1. North-Western Tuscany Blood Bank, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Abstract
Drug appropriateness is a pillar of modern evidence-based medicine, but the turnaround times of genomic sequencing are not compatible with the urgent need to deliver treatments against microorganisms. Massive worldwide genomic surveillance has created an unprecedented landscape for exploiting viral sequencing for therapeutic purposes. When it comes to therapeutic antiviral antibodies, using IC50 against specific polymorphisms of the target antigen can be calculated in vitro, and a list of mutations leading to drug resistance (immune escape) can be compiled. The author encountered this type of knowledge (available from the Stanford University Coronavirus Antiviral Resistance Database,) in a publicly accessible repository of SARS-CoV-2 sequences. The author used a custom function of the CoV-Spectrum.org web portal to deliver up-to-date, regional prevalence estimates of baseline efficacy for each authorized anti-spike mAb across all co-circulating SARS-CoV-2 sublineages at a given time point. This publicly accessible tool can inform therapeutic choices that would otherwise be blind.
Subject
Virology,Infectious Diseases
Cited by
3 articles.
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