antiviral therapy
Fights viral diseases
Antiviral therapy is medical treatment using drugs that target viruses—suppressing their replication or reducing their effects on the body.
Unlike antibiotics, which kill bacteria, antivirals typically manage rather than cure infections: Antiviral therapy has transformed HIV from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
The term covers both acute treatment and long-term suppression regimens.
- acyclovirAntiviral herpes medication
- remdesivirAntiviral medication for COVID-19
- influenza virusPathogen causing seasonal respiratory illness
- breakthrough infectionIllness despite immunization
- vaccine developmentCreating disease-preventing biological preparations
clinical trial · treatment · Ebola virus · Zika virus · monoclonal antibodies · pills · interferon · medication · dosage · pharmaceutical · prescription · HIV · chronic · infection · regimen · hepatitis · prophylaxis · suppression
- treatmentstreatment, treatments, medication, medicine, therapies
- medical treatmentschemotherapy, immunotherapy, surgery, dialysis, transplant
- Hepatitishepatitis B, hepatitis C, chronic hepatitis, hep A, HCV
- Antiviralsacyclovir, valacyclovir, amantadine, remdesivir, antiretrovirals
- Hepatitis treatmentsantivirals, interferon, immunoglobulin
- immunityimmune, immunity, immune system, immune response, immune cells
antiviral therapyviral infection
Disease caused by microbes
viral transmission · pathogenesis · viral replication · contagion · bioweapon
antiviral therapywatchful waiting
Monitoring before acting
letting nature take its course · medical neglect · palliative care