Administration of Fozivudine tidoxil as a single-agent therapeutic during acute feline immunodeficiency virus infection does not alter chronic infection

Viruses

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 954-962

  Miller, Michelle M ^a   Fogle, Jonathan E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Antiretroviral therapy (ART); FIV; Fozivudine; Lentivirus; Zidovudine

Indexed keywords

FOZIVUDINE TIDOXIL; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; FELINE ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HEMATOCRIT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CD4-CD8 RATIO; FELINE ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; LIPIDS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 84862140353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v4060954     Document Type: Article

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