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ReviewCurrent opinion in biomedical engineering2022

Antibacterial and antiviral high-performance nanosystems to mitigate new SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

Shivani Tiwari, Subhavna Juneja, Anujit Ghosal, Nandika Bandara, Raju Khan, Scott L Wallen, Seeram Ramakrishna, Ajeet Kaushik

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Review in Current opinion in biomedical engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Shivani TiwariDepartment of Zoology, Delhi University, New Delhi, 110007, India.
Subhavna JunejaNanoBiotechnology Lab, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Anujit GhosalDepartment of Food & Human Nutritional Sciences, The University of Manitoba, MB R3T 2N2, Canada.
Nandika BandaraDepartment of Food & Human Nutritional Sciences, The University of Manitoba, MB R3T 2N2, Canada.
Raju KhanMicrofluidics & MEMS Centre, CSIR - Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Hoshangabad Road, Bhopal 462026, India.
Scott L WallenNanoBioTech Laboratory, Health Systems Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL 33805, USA.
Seeram RamakrishnaCenter for Nanotechnology and Sustainability, National University of Singapore, 119260 Singapore.
Ajeet KaushikNanoBioTech Laboratory, Health Systems Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL 33805, USA.
Florida Polytechnic University · USUniversity of Manitoba · CAAdvanced Materials and Processes Research Institute · INJawaharlal Nehru University · INNational University of Singapore · SGUniversity of Delhi · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increased severity of the COVID-19 infection due to new SARS-CoV-2 variants has resonated pandemic impact which made health experts to re-evaluate the effectiveness of pandemic management strategies. This becomes critical owing to the infection in large population and shortcomings in the existing global healthcare system worldwide. The designing of high-performance nanosystems (NS) with tunable performances seems to be the most efficient method to tackle infectious SARS-CoV-2 variants including recently emerged omicron mutation. In this direction, experts projects the versatile functionalized NS and their capabilities to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 propagation pathways by sensitization, antipathogenicity, photocatalysis, photothermal effects, immune response, developing efficient diagnostics assays or associated, selective biomarkers detection, and targeted drug delivery systems. To achieve these tasks, this opinion article project the importance of the fabrication of nano-enabled protective gear, masks, gloves, sheets, filtration units, nano-emulsified disinfectants, antiviral/bacterial paints, and therangostics to facilitate quarantine strategies via protection, detection, and treatment needed to manage COVID-19 pandemic in personalized manners. These functional protective high-performance antibacterial and antiviral NS can efficiently tackle the SARS-CoV-2 variants transmission through respiratory fluids and pollutants within water droplets, aerosols, air, and particulates along with their severe infection via neutralizing or eradicating the virus.

Indexed as

COVID-19, Coronavirus diseases 2019Effective management of virusFDA, Food and Drug AdministrationFET, Field-effect-transistorIntelligent nano-healthcareLBL, Layer-by-LayerMultifunctional nanosystemNS, NanosystemSARS-CoV-2, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Trapping and mitigation of COVID-19

Identifiers

PMID34869963
PMCPMC8632437
OpenAlexW3215260419

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