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Secondary antiviral metabolites from fungi with special reference to coronaviruses

MOHAMED SALEM^1,2, MOHAMMAD EL-METWALLY³, WESAMELDIN SABER^4,*, SALLY NEGM^5,6, ATTALLA EL-KOTT^7.8, YASSER MAZROUA^9,10, ABEER MAKHLOUF¹¹, MAHMOUD MOUSTAFA^7,12

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Art, King Khalid University, Mohail, Assir, Saudi Arabia
2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
3 Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, El-Behera, Egypt
4 Microbial Activity Unit, Department of Microbiology, Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt
5 Life Sciences Department, College of Science and Art, King Khalid University, Mohail, Aseer, Saudi Arabia
6 Unit of Food Bacteriology, Central Laboratory of Food Hygiene, Ministry of Health, Sharkia, Egypt
7 Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
8 Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, El-Behera, Egypt
9 Department of Business Administration, Community College, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia 10 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
11 Department of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Menoufia University, Sheben El-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt
12 Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

* Corresponding Author: Wesameldin Saber,