Special Issue: Viral diseases and natural products: prospects in COVID-19 treatment (part IV). (Special Issue: Viral diseases and natural products: prospects in COVID-19 treatment (part IV).)

ABSTRACT

This special issue contains 5 articles that discuss dealing with natural products and viral diseases, focusing on the taxonomy, structure of SARS-CoV-2, history, transmission, epidemiology, pathology, clinical features and impacts of COVID-19, a review, based on the publicly available literature, of the knowledge regarding epidemiology, virology, diagnosis, clinical features, pharmacological and therapeutic ways to treat the novel coronavirus, the findings of the natural product-based anti-coronaviral research that has been published during the last two decades, and attempted to provide a comprehensive description of their utility as potential broad-spectrum anti-coronaviral drugs, thereby providing leads that may guide/facilitate anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug development studies, and seven known human strains of CoV were analyzed for the host and viral factors responsible for human outbreaks.