Therapeutics and Vaccines: Strengthening Our Fight Against the Global Pandemic COVID-19.

Abstract:

:The newly identified 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has become a public health concern globally posing a significant threat to human health and economy and creating an unprecedented crisis in all spheres of the global life. Emergence of new genotypes of SARS-CoV during the last few years has pointed out the limited efficacy of available vaccines and antivirals, constraining the global response to the COVID-19 outburst to largely monitoring/containment. There is high priority for treatment regimes and new potential therapeutic and vaccine strategies. Several candidates have shown promising outcomes in various in vitro and in vivo models. In addition, clinical trials are in progress to test conceivable therapies showing promising outcomes in various in vivo studies. Unfortunately, very little information is available in the scientific scope which offers details to the diverse strategies being targeted to fight the pandemic, particularly with respect to the molecular targets. This review article summarizes and highlights the ongoing advances and approaches that are being carried out across the globe in designing vaccines and novel therapeutics, with particular reference to the previous knowledge gained from other viral infections like with the earlier SARS and MERS-CoV. A detailed knowledge may pave the way to combat this pandemic COVID-19 as well as prevent similar deadly epidemics in future.

journal_name

Curr Microbiol

journal_title

Current microbiology

authors

Bhattacharjee A,Saha M,Halder A,Debnath A,Mukherjee O

doi

10.1007/s00284-020-02310-x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-01-03 00:00:00

eissn

0343-8651

issn

1432-0991

pii

10.1007/s00284-020-02310-x

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