What medicines are effective against the coronavirus? Text: Eva Lundgren Photo: Johan Wingborg
Large quantities of SARS-Cov-2 virus have been grown in cell culture and are now available in a specially equipped laboratory at Microbiology. The cell-culture grown virus will be used to test if existing substances in 1500 already approved medicines may be effective against COVID-19. “I am hopeful that we will find something interesting,” explains Kristina Nyström, docent at Medical Microbiology. 12
GUJOURNAL MAY 2020
