Table 3.

List of antibiotics, which have the antiviral activity.

S. no.	Antibiotic	Mode of action	Viruses get affected	Ref
1.	Distamycin A	The reduction of DNA-dependent RNA synthesis	Vaccinia, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, myxoma, and adenoviruses	[99]
2.	Netropsin	Inhibition of DNA-dependent DNA- and RNA syntheses	Vaccinia and Rauscher virus	[99]
3.	Ehrlichin	Suppressing the formation of viral hemagglutinin	Influenza B virus	[100]
4.	Teicoplanin	Inhibits the cathepsin L in the Late Endosome/Lysosome and suppress the viral entry	Ebola, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV viruses	[101]
5.	Rifampicin	Inhibition of late stage viral protein synthesis, virion assembly and also suppresses the de novo synthesized viral polymerase.	Poxviruses and vaccinia virus	[102]
6.	Doxycycline	Inhibits the viral replication	Chikungunya virus	[103]