id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016309-6mw8okmt Bule, Mohammed Antivirals: Past, Present and Future 2019-06-06 .txt text/plain 8200 405 36 Those included usage restricted to a single virus and specific animal species, problems with high spectrum activity and low cytotoxicity, high costs of development of new chemical compounds and absence of rapid diagnostic techniques allowing prompt use of a specific antiviral agent in the course of an acute infection (Rollinson 1992a, b) . Nevertheless, several licensed human antiviral agents are being used with cascade principle for treatment of animal diseases (e.g. acyclovir, idoxuridine and trifluridine against feline herpesvirus-1 ocular infection in cats) (Thiry et al. The discovery of PAA (Fig. 22.4) as an antiviral drug gave rise to intense research on its biological activities, which demonstrated PAA and its derivatives' ability to inhibit the replication of a number of viruses such as immunodeficiency, hepatitis and herpes viruses. To conclude with, equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) infection causes outbreak of respiratory and various neurological diseases in horses, against which acyclovir and valacyclovir are the most common drugs, but also IFN targeting IFNGR complex as a key mediator of virus-specific cellular immunity (Poelaert et al. ./cache/cord-016309-6mw8okmt.txt ./txt/cord-016309-6mw8okmt.txt