{"title":"Clinical effect of human-fibroblast-derived (Beta) interferon in treatment of adeno-virus epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and its complications.","authors":"A Romano, E Ladizensky, D Guarari-Rotman, M Revel","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The clinical studies reviewed here indicated the usefulness of topical application of Human-fibroblast-derived (Beta) interferon (Hu1FN-B) in treatment of Adeno-8 Epidemic-keratoconjunctivitis. A week treatment with 2-5 x 10(5) reference units daily doses, starting early as possible, reduced the length of the disease from 22 day to a week, and almost totally prevented the appearance of subepithelial keratitis which occurred in 57% of the control group. Possibly interferon should be given also prophylactically to individuals exposed to contagion. Our results encourage further investigation on the Hu1 FN-B use as a drug for treatment and prevention of viral infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":76584,"journal":{"name":"Texas reports on biology and medicine","volume":"41 ","pages":"559-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Texas reports on biology and medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The clinical studies reviewed here indicated the usefulness of topical application of Human-fibroblast-derived (Beta) interferon (Hu1FN-B) in treatment of Adeno-8 Epidemic-keratoconjunctivitis. A week treatment with 2-5 x 10(5) reference units daily doses, starting early as possible, reduced the length of the disease from 22 day to a week, and almost totally prevented the appearance of subepithelial keratitis which occurred in 57% of the control group. Possibly interferon should be given also prophylactically to individuals exposed to contagion. Our results encourage further investigation on the Hu1 FN-B use as a drug for treatment and prevention of viral infection.