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- CMV antiviral therapy
- ganciclovir, valganciclovir and cidofovir and foscarnet are all treatments approved for immunocompromised pts
- which of the cmv treatments is not as well tolerated
- foscarnet
- acyclovir is effective for cmv infections true or false
- false it is NOT effective for cmv infections
- explain the moa of ganciclovir spectrum of activity too
- guanosine anolog: gcv-triposphate is an inhibitor of herpes virus dna polymerase in vitro activity against hsv, vzv, cmv
- moa of foscarnet spectrum of activity
- phosphonoformic acid - direct inhibitor of viral dna polymerase activity against hsv, vzv, cmv, hiv
- moa of cidofovir spectrum of activity?
- nucleotide phosphonate analog - inhibits viral dna polymerase hsv, cmv, poxvirus, hpv
- what are some CMV chemoprophylaxis drugs?
- ganciclovir and valganciclovir
- what do you use to treat epstein-barr virus?
- no drugs are currently available to treat ebv. it lacks a thymidine kinase
- what drugs are recommended for therapy for herpes viruse simiae (virus b)
- ganciclovir acyclovir but efficacy is unknown and 75% of humans infected with virus b die