Table of Contents:
  • Herpesvirus infections in man
  • Diseases caused by alphaherpesvirus, HSV and VZV
  • Immunocompromised hosts
  • Infection, latency and reactivation
  • Morphology of herpesvirus virion
  • Productive replication cycle
  • The herpesvirus genome
  • HSV and VZV antiviral therapy
  • Nucleoside analogue therapy
  • Historical prospective
  • Genes coding for proteins targeted by antivirals
  • Inhibitors of DNA synthesis
  • A new target
  • HSV helicase-primase complex
  • Clinical potential of Helicase primase inhibitors (HPIs)
  • Studying HPI in vivo
  • Antiviral efficacy
  • Dose response
  • The effects of HPI on HSV latency
  • The development of HPI antiviral drug resistance
  • HPI resistant mutants growth and pathogenicity