<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>isfcppharmaspire</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>Pharmaspire</JournalTitle> <PISSN>C</PISSN> <EISSN>o</EISSN> <Volume-Issue>Volume 13, Issue 3</Volume-Issue> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season>July - September, 2021</Season> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>2022</Year> <Month>06</Month> <Day>7</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Pharmaceutics</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>Existing therapies of coronavirus disease-2019 treatment under consideration: A technical note</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>114</FirstPage> <LastPage>116</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>Dilpreet</FirstName> <LastName>Singh</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic outbreak in the world and is the leading cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome. At present, no new drug that selectively used for COVID-19 treatment is available. Existing drugs with alternative mechanism of action found beneficial and show faster recovery rate in COVID-19 patients. Drugs with anti-malarial, anti-arthritic, anti-hypertensive, anti-cancer, and immunomodulatory activity found useful in COVID-19. However, usage of these drugs is limited due to lack of clinical trials and safety. In this review, we discussed brief overview of existing treatment of COVID-19.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>Coronavirus diease-2019, existing drugs, severe acute respiratory syndrome, new drug application, efficacy</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://isfcppharmaspire.com/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=13781&title=Existing therapies of coronavirus disease-2019 treatment under consideration: A technical note</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References>1. Van der Hoek L, Pyrc K, Jebbink MF, Vermeulen-Oost W, Berkhout RJ, et al. Identification of a new human coronavirus. Nat Med 2004;10:368-73. 2. Huang C, Wang Y, Li X, Ren L, Zhao J, Hu Y, et al. Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Lancet 2020;395:497-506. 3. Holmes KV. 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