Teaching an old drug new tricks to fight cytomegalovirus
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 13:40
in Health & Medicine
An old drug once mostly used to treat amebiasis -- a disease caused by a parasite -- and induce vomiting in cases of poisoning appears to also halt replication of cytomegalovirus (CMV), a herpesvirus that can cause serious disease in immunocompromised individuals, including those with HIV or organ transplant recipients, report researchers.