2014 - Review: Oral antiviral drugs reduce clinical recurrence in recurrent genital herpes.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Kalil, Andre C.; Sandkovsky, Uriel S.
- Source
- ACP Journal Club. 2/17/2015, Vol. 162 Issue 4, p1-1. 1p. 4 Color Photographs, 1 Chart.
- Subject
- *ACYCLOVIR
*ANTIVIRAL agents
*PRODRUGS
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*HERPES genitalis
*IMMUNE response
*IMMUNOCOMPETENT cells
*MEDICAL databases
*INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
*MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems
*MEDLINE
*META-analysis
*RESEARCH funding
*VALINE
*SYSTEMATIC reviews
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials
*THERAPEUTICS
DISEASE relapse prevention
- Language
- ISSN
- 1056-8751
The article presents a study on impact of oral antiviral drugs on recurrence in recurrent genital herpes. The study compared suppressive treatment with oral acyclovir, famciclovir, or valacyclovir with each other in patients with four genital herpes outbreaks per year. The result showed that oral antiviral drugs reduced risk for clinical recurrence in patients with recurrent genital herpes as compared with placebo.