| Abstract: | SARS-CoV-2 infection is a serious threat to human life and health all over the world, and COVID-19 is a global epidemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. SARS-CoV-2 is highly infectious, strange and variable. Therefore, the treatment of COVID-19 must be urgent and targeted. However, vaccines and currently used drugs generally do not have the above-mentioned characteristics. Although convalescent plasma of COVID-19 has shown a clinical application value in the emergency treatment of critical patients, it shows great limitations. All human recombinant multivalent neutralizing nano-antibodies may meet the deficiency of COVID-19 therapy. Gene engineering technologies have been used to develop specific neutralizing antibody (nAB) drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 worldwide. Some of the candidate nAB drugs have been entered the clinical trials and can be used for the therapy of COVID-19 shortly. In the present review, we studied and analyzed nABs for the treatment of COVID-19 and the progress and prospect from the following five aspects: 1) The biological and clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection; 2) The feasibility of plasma therapy for convalescents with COVID-19; 3) The technical routes of developing nAb drugs; 4) The current status of developing global COVID-19 antibodies; 5) The difficulties and clinical use. |
