Anti-herpesvirus Drugs and Vaccines
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 52235
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the advent of trifluridine and idoxuridine, the antimicrobial community has been looking for better, more specific drugs and vaccines to both prevent and suppress infections of herpesviruses. The greatest active pharmaceutical ingredient since then has been acyclovir and its derivatives; the greatest vaccine successes against a human herpesvirus have been against varicella zoster virus. However, antiherpetic drug and vaccine discovery continues today, especially with the more recent clinical licensing of drugs such as letermovir and animamevir and vaccines such as Shingrix.
This Special Issue takes a look at both current antiherpetic interventions available today, with medications and vaccines used to act prophylactically and therapeutically, and where the field is moving in the near future. We also explore newer ideas for long-term suppression and perhaps even removal of latent virus.
Prof. Dr. Barry J. Margulies
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antiviral chemotherapy
- acyclovir
- aciclovir
- ganciclovir
- valtrex
- antiherpetic
- varivax
- zostavax
- oka
- herpes vaccine
- Marek’s Disease Virus
- veterinary herpes
- rhinopneumonitis
- pneumabort-K
- cytovene
- letermovir
- maribavir
- amenalief
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