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    Ribavirin, also known as tribavirin, is an antiviral medication used to treat illness caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and hepatitis C virus...
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  • PMID 25387551. Gish RG (January 2006). "Treating HCV with ribavirin analogues and ribavirin-like molecules". The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy...
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    antiviral medications such as sofosbuvir or simeprevir. Peginterferon and ribavirin were earlier generation treatments that proved successful in <50% of cases...
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    addressing dehydration and improving symptoms. The antiviral medication ribavirin has been recommended, but evidence to support its use is weak. Descriptions...
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    hantavirus infection, but ribavirin and favipiravir have shown varying efficacy and safety. Prophylactic use of ribavirin and favipiravir in early infection...
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    It is a prodrug of ribavirin, active against a number of DNA and RNA viruses. Taribavirin has better liver-targeting than ribavirin, and has a shorter...
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    April, 2009. When used in combination with peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin, boceprevir resulted in significantly higher sustained viral response...
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    Treatment is typically with supportive care, and while the medication ribavirin is often used, as of 2023 there is not sufficient, high-quality evidence...
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  • used to treat patients with genotypes 1a or 1b without PEG-interferon or ribavirin. Ledipasvir is an inhibitor of NS5A, a hepatitis C virus protein.[citation...
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    ISSN 0305-7453. PMID 21482564. "Ribavirin History". News-Medical.net. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2016. "Aerosolization of Ribavirin through a Mask, Hood...
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    caused by ribavirin. Females who could potentially become pregnant should undergo a pregnancy test 2 months prior to starting the sofosbuvir/ribavirin/peginterferon...
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    respiratory failure, intubation and mechanical ventilation may be required. Ribavirin is an antiviral medication licensed for the treatment of RSV in children...
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    administration of the antiviral ribavirin is an effective treatment of many pathological features of the disease. Ribavirin treatment during the first five...
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    C virus (HCV) worldwide—genotype I— can be treated with interferon-α, ribavirin and protease inhibitors such as telaprevir, boceprevir or the nucleotide...
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    Supportive treatment Medication Intrathecal interferon alpha, intravenous ribavirin, isoprinosine Prognosis Usually fatal Frequency 2 in 10,000 for all age...
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  • who was studying the woman's disease contracted the virus but survived. Ribavirin was not given in these first two cases. Four years later, in 1994, a researcher...
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    treatment with peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin alone. In patients who received peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin for a year, the addition of telaprevir...
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  • C and hepatitis B. For hepatitis C it is typically used together with ribavirin and cure rates are between 24 and 92%. For hepatitis B it may be used...
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    available. For someone exposed to CCHF, ribavirin is available as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). Ribavirin may also help in exposure to Lassa fever...
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  • List of adverse effects of ribavirin by frequency. Abdominal pain Anemia Anxiety Appetite loss Concentration impaired Depression Diarrhea Dizziness Dry...
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    Deleobuvir was tested in combination regimens with pegylated interferon and ribavirin, and in interferon-free regimens with other direct-acting antiviral agents...
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  • (HCV). The other medications used in combination include sofosbuvir, ribavirin, and interferon, vary depending on the virus type and whether the person...
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    treatment is supportive care. While tentative evidence supports the use of ribavirin, it has not yet been studied in people with the disease. Specific antibodies...
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  • hantavirus infection, but ribavirin and favipiravir have shown varying efficacy and safety. Prophylactic use of ribavirin and favipiravir in early infection...
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  • Ontario, Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals for their Hepatitis C drugs ribavirin and taribavirin (now KD024). Cancer drugs XL647 and XL844 were acquired...
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    C genotype 1 and 4. Medications it is used with include sofosbuvir or ribavirin and peginterferon-alfa. Cure rates are in 80s to 90s percent. It may be...
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    In the 1998–99 Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia, 140 patients received ribavirin, with their outcomes assessed against 54 historical controls who either...
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    antipyretics, supplemental oxygen and mechanical ventilation as needed. While ribavirin is commonly used to treat SARS, there seems to have little to no effect...
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  • disease) or with mild cirrhosis. Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir in combination with ribavirin is indicated for the treatment of children six years and older or weighing...
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    interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with ribavirin, it has been shown that genetic polymorphisms near the human IL28B gene...
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