Current Overviews on COVID-19 Management Strategies

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The coronavirus pandemic hit the world lately and caused acute respiratory syndrome in humans. The causative agent of the disease was soon identified by scientists as SARS-CoV-2 and later called a novel coronavirus by the general public. Due to the severity and rapid spread of the disease, WHO classifies the COVID-19 pandemic as the 6th public health emergency even after taking efforts like worldwide quarantine and restrictions. Since only symptomatic treatment is available, the best way to control the spread of the virus is by taking preventive measures. Various types of antigen/antibody detection kits and diagnostic methods are available for the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients. In recent years, various phytochemicals and repurposing drugs showing a broad range of anti-viral activities with different modes of actions have been identified. Repurposing drugs such as arbidol, hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, lopinavir, favipiravir, remdesivir, hexamethylene amiloride, dexamethasone, tocilizumab, interferon-β, and neutralizing antibodies exhibit in vitro anti-coronaviral properties by inhibiting multiple processes in the virus life cycle. Various research groups are involved in drug trials and vaccine development. Plant-based antiviral compounds such as baicalin, calanolides, curcumin, oxymatrine, matrine, and resveratrol exhibit different modes of action against a wide range of positive/negative sense-RNA/DNA virus, and future researches need to be conducted to ascertain their role and use in managing SARS-CoV-2. Thus this article is an attempt to review the current understanding of COVID- 19 acute respiratory disease and summarize its clinical features with their prospective control and various aspects of the therapeutic approach.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Current pharmaceutical biotechnology - 23(2022), 3 vom: 16., Seite 361-387

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rai, Pankaj Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Mueed, Zeba [VerfasserIn]
Chowdhury, Abhiroop [VerfasserIn]
Deval, Ravi [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Dinesh [VerfasserIn]
Kamal, Mohammad A [VerfasserIn]
Negi, Yogeshwar Singh [VerfasserIn]
Pareek, Shubhra [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Hemlata [VerfasserIn]
Poddar, Nitesh Kumar [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
COVID-19
Diagnosis
Drug targets
Epidemiology
Journal Article
Review
SARS-CoV-2
Therapeutic.

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Date Completed 19.01.2022

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2174/1389201022666210509022313

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325182825