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ReviewBiomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie2021

A comprehensive review on efficient approaches for combating coronaviruses.

Mahdi Pouresmaieli, Elena Ekrami, Ali Akbari, Negin Noorbakhsh, Negin Borzooee Moghadam, Matin Mamoudifard

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Review in Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mahdi PouresmaieliDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran; Faculty of Mining, Petroleum and Geophysics, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.
Elena EkramiDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran.
Ali AkbariDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran; Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
Negin NoorbakhshDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran; Faculty of Medical Science and Technologies, Islamic Azad University Science and Research, Tehran, Iran.
Negin Borzooee MoghadamDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran.
Matin MamoudifardDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: matinmahmodifard@yahoo.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Almost 80% of people confronting COVID-19 recover from COVID-19 disease without any particular treatments. They experience heterogeneous symptoms; a wide range of respiratory symptoms, cough, dyspnea, fever, and viral pneumonia. However, some others need urgent intervention and special treatment to get rid of this widespread disease. So far, there isn't any unique drug for the potential treatment of COVID 19. However, some available therapeutic drugs used for other diseases seem beneficial for the COVID-19 treatment. On the other hand, there is a robust global concern for developing an efficient COVID-19 vaccine to control the COVID-19 pandemic sustainably. According to the WHO report, since 8 October 2021, 320 vaccines have been in progress. 194 vaccines are in the pre-clinical development stage that 126 of them are in clinical progression. Here, in this paper, we have comprehensively reviewed the most recent and updated information about coronavirus and its mutations, all the potential therapeutic approaches for treating COVID-19, developed diagnostic systems for COVID- 19 and the available COVID-19 vaccines and their mechanism of action.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentBiosensing TechniquesCOVID-19COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingCOVID-19 VaccinesDexamethasoneGlucocorticoidsHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesMutationNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesPoint-of-Care TestingSARS-CoV-2World Health OrganizationCOVID-19 VaccinesDexamethasoneGlucocorticoidsCoronavirusCOVID-19DiagnosisTreatmentVaccine

Identifiers

PMID34794240
PMCPMC8531103

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