About today making presentation on antiviral agent (Microbiology) @hafizmunir786 : The diary game data 24 /03/2021

Late-night working I am making the presentation on antiviral agents or drug

Antiviral agents are drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment or control of viral infections. They target stages in the viral life cycle.

Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Most antivirals target specific viruses, while a broad-spectrum antiviral is effective against a wide range of viruses. Unlike most antibiotics, antiviral drugs do not destroy their target pathogen; instead, they inhibit its development.

Thereby we can infer that antiviral agents, e.g., Cu, Ag, and Zn have been thoroughly studied and their uses have increased rapidly for the purpose of combating infections and also to reduce wastage. CS is a new promising technology that has attracted considerable attention in the field of coatings and additive manufacturing like intermetallics, metallic glasses, ceramics, and composites in recent years. It can deposit thick coatings cold with high deposition efficiency as compared to other thermal spraying techniques. It has got unique characteristics like low-temperature processing due to which no oxidation happens and the microstructure of the coatings is the same as that of feedstock material. There has been much interest in research on the development of antimicrobial coatings cold spraying within the past few decades. These cold sprayed coatings can be used for the prevention of the transfer of bacteria from the contact surfaces to healthy people.

However, a lot of work still needs to be done to convert the theoretical studies and experimental investigations to the commercial level. More experiments needed to be performed aided by tests on animals and also by other clinical trials in order to accurately interpret the antimicrobial properties that these agents have. There are many material systems left in which the mechanism of deposition by CS and feedstock powders for producing antimicrobial is still not well explored and extensively discussed. More in vitro and in vivo studies are needed to be carried out.

These coatings possess huge potential for the development of contact surfaces in many places like hospitals, restaurants, trains, theaters, cash machines, schools, and other objects in the near future. Here, we tried to sketch a strategic present and future perspective of bacteria-resistant coatings on metals and polymers substrates using CS. We hope that the ideas and proposals presented in this review will help researchers in moving forward and pushing the limits of CS technique toward their clinical antimicrobial applications.