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Susceptibilities of herpes simplex viruses to penciclovir and acyclovir in eight cell lines.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Mar 2002
Leary Jeffry J, Wittrock Robert, Sarisky Robert T, Weinberg Adriana, Levin Myron J
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The commonly used antiviral drugs acyclovir (ACV) and penciclovir (PCV) possess similarly potent antiviral activities in vivo against herpes simplex virus (HSV). Assay methods for sensitivity to ACV are not necessarily transferable to PCV, even though the two drugs have similar in vivo potencies and mechanisms of action. We determined by plaque reduction assay the relative activities of ACV and PCV against five...
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