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  • adjective Countering herpes.
  • noun Any drug that counters herpes.

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anti- +‎ herpetic

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  • When the acyclic adenosine analog was tested in the antiviral screen, it showed antiherpetic activity in vitro at about twice the concentration of ara-A The antiviral program now concentrated on the acyclic nucleoside analogs, with the syntheses conducted by Schaeffer and Beauchamp, the antiviral testing by Bauer and Collins, and the mechanisms of action, enzymology and in vivometabolism by my group (108,109).

    Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy 1988

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