Skinner on Lithium and herpes

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1: Med Microbiol Immunol (Berl). 1980;168(2):139-48. Related

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The effect of lithium chloride on the replication of herpes simplex

virus.

Skinner GR, Hartley C, Buchan A, Harper L, Gallimore P.

Lithium chloride inhibited the replication of type 1 and type 2

Herpes simplex virus at concentrations which permitted host cell

replication. Virus polypeptide and antigen synthesis were unaffected

while viral DNA synthesis was inhibited. The replication of two other

DNA viruses, pseudorabies and vaccinia virus, was inhibited but there

was no inhibition of two RNA viruses, namely, EMC and influenze virus.

PMID: 6256617 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]