The antiviral drug valacyclovir successfully suppresses salivary gland hypertrophy virus (sghv) in laboratory colonies of glossina pallidipes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Abd Alla, Adly M M ^a   Adun, Henry ^a   Parker, Andrew G ^a   Vreysen, Marc J B ^a   Bergoin, Max ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; VALACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; VALINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VIRUS; FEEDING; FEMALE; GLOSSINA; GLOSSINA PALLIDIPES; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SALIVARY GLAND HYPERTROPHY; SALIVARY GLAND HYPERTROPHY VIRUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; PATHOGENICITY; TSETSE FLY; VIROLOGY;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA PALLIDIPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ACYCLOVIR; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; TSETSE FLIES; VALINE;

EID: 84861887368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038417     Document Type: Article

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