“…Their activity toward a broad spectrum of viruses is known, including herpes, papilloma, human immunodeficiency, hepatitis, influenza viruses, SARS‐CoV‐2, cytomegalovirus, etc. (Babaev et al., 2022; Kazakova, Tret'yakova, & Baev, 2021; Liu, Yang, Wang & Xiong, 2022; Smirnova et al., 2022; Wu et al., 2020; Ye et al., 2021; Yi et al., 2022). The antiviral effect of these compounds is due to several types of activity including direct antiviral action, effects on cellular antiviral pathways, and immunomodulatory activity, in particular, activation of the nonspecific immunity system (Li, Sun, Xiao, Zhang & Zhou, 2020; Xiao et al., 2018).…”