Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Most antivirals target specific viruses, while a broad-spectrum antiviral...
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Antiviral drugs are different from antibiotics. Flu antiviral drugs are different from antiviral drugs used to treat other infectious diseases such as...
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BSAs show antiviral activity against other viruses than originally investigated (such as remdesivir and interferon alfa). Efforts in drug repurposing...
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Rhinovirus (section Novel antiviral drugs)
VP1-VP3. There are currently no FDA-approved antiviral drugs to treat rhinovirus infections. Several novel antiviral compounds have been tested in clinical...
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Drug resistance is the reduction in effectiveness of a medication such as an antimicrobial or an antineoplastic in treating a disease or condition. The...
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Feline infectious peritonitis (section Antiviral drugs)
response. Antivirals (in the narrow sense) act by interfering with the enzymes or other biological processes in the FIP virus. An experimental drug called...
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Influenza (section Antiviral chemoprophylaxis)
can be treated with supportive measures and, in severe cases, with antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir. In healthy individuals, influenza is typically...
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Virus (section Antiviral drugs)
immune responses and result in chronic infections. Several classes of antiviral drugs have been developed. The English word "virus" comes from the Latin...
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Aciclovir (category Infobox drug with local INN variant)
Aciclovir, also known as acyclovir, is an antiviral medication. It is primarily used for the treatment of herpes simplex virus infections, chickenpox...
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indicate via their stems what drug class the drug belongs to. For example, one can tell that aciclovir is an antiviral drug because its name ends in the...
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Inosine pranobex (category Antiviral drugs)
acedoben dimepranol (INN), methisoprinol, inosiplex or Isoprinosine) is an antiviral drug that is a combination of inosine and dimepranol acedoben (a salt of...
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Molnupiravir (category Antiviral drugs)
Molnupiravir, sold under the brand name Lagevrio, is an antiviral medication that inhibits the replication of certain RNA viruses. It is used to treat...
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Antimicrobial (redirect from Antimicrobial drug)
toxicity. Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections. Like antibiotics, specific antivirals are used for...
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Remdesivir (category Antiviral drugs)
Remdesivir, sold under the brand name Veklury, is a broad-spectrum antiviral medication developed by the biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences. It...
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GS-441524 (category Antiviral drugs)
a nucleoside analogue antiviral drug which was developed by Gilead Sciences. It is the main plasma metabolite of the antiviral prodrug remdesivir, and...
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carcinogenicity or mutagenicity have been observed, making this drug lead a very strong antiviral drug candidate for these viruses. The scientists are now working...
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the drug does not stop once an NCE is advanced into human clinical trials. In addition to the tests required to move a novel vaccine or antiviral drug into...
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Nitazoxanide (category Antiviral drugs)
the thiazolides, a class of drugs which are synthetic nitrothiazolyl-salicylamide derivatives with antiparasitic and antiviral activity. Tizoxanide, an active...
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the metabolism of antiviral drugs used to treat HIV-1 and how genetic variations in drug-processing enzymes may impact these drugs' efficacy. Bumpus received...
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Treatment of influenza (section Antiviral drugs)
immune system works to recover from infection. The main classes of antiviral drugs used against influenza are neuraminidase inhibitors, such as zanamivir...
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Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (category Combination antiviral drugs)
co-packaged medication used as a treatment for COVID‑19. It contains the antiviral medications nirmatrelvir and ritonavir and was developed by Pfizer. Nirmatrelvir...
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Famciclovir (category Anti-herpes virus drugs)
Famciclovir is a guanosine analogue antiviral drug used for the treatment of various herpesvirus infections, most commonly for herpes zoster (shingles)...
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Gilead Sciences (category Specialty drugs)
Foster City, California, that focuses on researching and developing antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, influenza...
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Antibiotic (redirect from Antibiotic drug)
influenza. Drugs which inhibit growth of viruses are termed antiviral drugs or antivirals. Antibiotics are also not effective against fungi. Drugs which inhibit...
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Introduction to viruses (section Antiviral drugs)
virus. Antibiotics, which work against bacteria, have no impact, but antiviral drugs can treat life-threatening infections. Those vaccines that produce...
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The Influenza Antiviral Drug Search was a distributed computing project that was running on the BOINC platform. It is a project of the University of Texas...
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Antimicrobial resistance (redirect from Drug resistant bacteria)
are drugs used to treat infections. This resistance affects all classes of microbes, including bacteria (antibiotic resistance), viruses (antiviral resistance)...
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Umifenovir (category Drugs with non-standard legal status)
brand name Arbidol, is sold and used as an antiviral medication for influenza in Russia and China. The drug is manufactured by Pharmstandard (Russian:...
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academic and industry researchers to speed development of vaccines, antiviral drugs, and post-infection therapies. The International Clinical Trials Registry...
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