Download Clinical Use of Antiviral Drugs by B. E. Juel-Jensen (auth.), Professor Dr. Erik De Clercq PDF

By B. E. Juel-Jensen (auth.), Professor Dr. Erik De Clercq (eds.)

Antiviral chemotherapy has come of age, and, after an preliminary sluggish seasoned­ gress, the improvement of recent antiviral brokers has proceeded at a extra speedy velocity and the views for his or her scientific use have elevated significantly. Now, 25 years after the 1st antiviral assay (idoxuridine) was once brought within the health facility, it's becoming to commemorate the start of the antivirals' period. In its introductory bankruptcy B.E. Juel-Jensen touches on what might be con­ sidered as 5 of the main primary standards of an antiviral drug : efficacy, relative non-toxicity, effortless solubility, prepared availability and rea­ sonable fee. without doubt, the antiviral medications that experience to date been utilized in the hospital may nonetheless be more suitable upon as a number of of those 5 crucial calls for are involved. How is all begun is narrated by means of W.H. Prusoff. the 1st antiviral medications for use in people have been methisazone and idoxuridine, the previous, that's now of archival curiosity, within the prevention of smallpox, the latter, which used to be licensed for scientific use within the usa in 1962, for the topical remedy of herpetic keratitis. when it comes to efficiency, additionally as a result of solubility purposes, idoxuridine has been outdated by means of trifluridine within the topical therapy of herpes simplex epithelial keratitis. H.E. Kaufman didn't locate trifluridine or acyclovir ef­ fective within the remedy of deep stromal keratitis or iritis and he reckons that different antiviral medications (i.e. bromovinyldeoxyuridine) wouldn't be effec­ tive either.