Aciclovir, a drug commonly used in the treatment of genital herpes, also suppresses HIV activity in cells already infected with herpes viruses, researchers from the US National Institutes of Health report in the journal Cell Host and Microbe.
The findings may partially explain the effect of anti-herpes treatment on HIV shedding in people infected with HIV, and could also point the way to a new type of nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) based on aciclovir, they say.
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