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Antifungal&Antiviral
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Herpes simplex types 1 (HSV-1) | Lifelong infection that causes oral herpes, symptoms are cold sores or fever blisters around the mouth and face |
| Cold Sore | small, painful, fluid-filled blisters that can crust over as they heal. Often proceeded by tingling, itching, or burning sensations. Typically, around the lips and sometimes inside the mouth. |
| Herpes-simplex types 2 (HSV-2) | Lifelong infection that causes genital herpes, symptoms are painful blisters or sores in the genital and anal areas |
| Varicella-zoster | virus that causes two Virus that causes two distinct diseases: Chickenpox (Varicella) and shingles (Herpes Zoster) |
| Epstein-Barr | a common virus from the herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis (mono), also known as "the kissing disease" |
| Herpes simiae (B-virus) | a rare zoonotic virus that infects macaque monkeys. It can lead to potentially fatal illness in humans if transmitted. |
| Virus | is an infectious organism, much smaller than fungus or bacterium. A virus must invade a living cell and release its DNA or RNA in order to reproduce |
| antiviral agents | interfere with the viral replication process |
| AIDS | is a chronic disease produced by infection with the retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) |
| Opportunistic infections | are infections caused by organisms that usually do not make healthy people sick but can cause illness in individuals with weakened immune systems |
| HIV-1 | is transmitted via sexual intercourse, sharing of bodily fluids, and intravenous substance abuse during pregnancy and childbirth |
| HIV-2 | is transmitted only from a woman to her child while the child is in the womb |
| Prodromal symptoms | are early warning signs or early symptoms that occur before the full onset of a disease or condition |
| Antifungal agents | nystatin (Mycostatin)- oral and topical clotrimazole (Mycelex)- oral and topical ketoconazole (APO-ketoconazole)- systemic fluconazole (Diflucan) |
| Antiviral Agents | acyclovir (Zovirax)- topical docosanol (Abreva) penciclovir (Denavir) famcyclovir (Famvir) valacyclovir (Valtrex) |
| Antiretroviral | ziidovudine (AZT, Retrovir) nevirapine (Varamune) |