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#359 Monkeypox with Dr. Boghuma Titanji

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How Long Does PCR Testing Take?

The first medication that I want to talk about is the antiviral drug called tickoviramat, and this is a medication that acts by inhibiting an important protein in the replication cycle of the virus. It is currently available in certain countries through emergency use authorization processes,. We are offering it to patients who present with severe disease, kind of as a way of hopefully reducing the viral load and the viral replicating. The goal was to shorten the course of that illness. There is anecdotal evidence that some patients report that they feel that they have fewer lesions emerging once start using the medication or that they feel there's some alleviation in terms of their symptoms.

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