Famciclovir for the Treatment of Acute Herpes Zoster: Effects on Acute Disease and Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial - Concepedia

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Famciclovir for the Treatment of Acute Herpes Zoster: Effects on Acute Disease and Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

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1995

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Stephen K. Tyring, Rick A. Barbarash, James E. Nahlik, Anthony L. Cunningham, John Marley, Madalene C.Y. Heng, Terry M. Jones, Ted Rea, Ron Boon, Robin Saltzman

Annals of Internal Medicine

Abstract

Oral famciclovir, 500 mg or 750 mg three times daily for 7 days, is an effective and well-tolerated therapy for herpes zoster that decreases the duration of the disease's most debilitating complication, postherpetic neuralgia.