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- Title
Metal Nanoparticles against Viruses: Possibilities to Fight SARS-CoV-2.
- Authors
Chue-Gonçalves, Marcelly; Pereira, Giovana N.; Faccin-Galhardi, Lígia C.; Kobayashi, Renata K. T.; Nakazato, Gerson
- Abstract
In view of the current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, the research community is focusing on development of diagnostics, treatment, and vaccines to halt or reverse this scenario. Although there are already various vaccines available, adaptive mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome can alter its pathogenic potential and, at the same time, increase the difficulty of developing drugs or immunization by vaccines. Nanotechnology carries a potential to act in all stages in fighting this viral disease, with several possibilities of strategies such as applying nanoparticles directly as antivirals in delivery systems against these viruses or incorporating them in materials, with power of achievement in therapeutics, vaccines and prevention. In this paper, we review and bring insights of recent studies using metal nanocomposites as antivirals against coronavirus and structurally similar viruses.
- Subjects
SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; VIRUS diseases; VIRUSES; NANOCARRIERS; METAL nanoparticles
- Publication
Nanomaterials (2079-4991), 2021, Vol 11, Issue 11, p3118
- ISSN
2079-4991
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nano11113118