In a study patients had unilateral or bilateral vision loss due to CMV retinitis. – Clinical Infectious Diseases (1) Cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMV retinitis) is a serious viral eye infection of the retina, the light-sensing nerve layer that lines the back of the eye. Read More …
Lonely and depressed people showed signs of elevated latent herpes reactivation. – Ohio State University (1) A study showed that loneliness and depression increases the level of chronic stress, which in turn hurts the immune system. The weakened immune system fails Read More …
The human cytomegalovirus may “speed the progression of an aggressive form of brain cancer.” – Ohio University A study showed that Cytomegalovirus (CMV) may accelerate the progression of a certain form of brain cancer.“CMV has been detected in many cancer types… Read More …
“Prominent in the current stage of antiviral drug development are: for the treatment of herpesvirus infections: herpes simplex virus (HSV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and varicella-zoster virus (VZV), respectively; (vi) the role of a new tenofovir prodrug, tenofovir.” – Medicinal Research Reviews Read More …