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SUBMITTER: Vanpouille C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3346610 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vanpouille Christophe C Lisco Andrea A Introini Andrea A Grivel Jean-Charles JC Munawwar Arshi A Merbah Melanie M Schinazi Raymond F RF Derudas Marco M McGuigan Christopher C Balzarini Jan J Margolis Leonid L
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20120206 5
Multiple clinical trials have demonstrated that herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) suppressive therapy using acyclovir (ACV) or valacyclovir in HIV-1/HSV-2-infected persons increased the patient's survival and decreased the HIV-1 load. It has been shown that the incorporation of ACV-monophosphate into the nascent DNA chain instead of dGMP results in the termination of viral DNA elongation and directly inhibits laboratory strains of HIV-1. We evaluated here the anti-HIV activity of ACV against primar ...[more]