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Organic Chemicals > Organophosphorus Compounds > Organophosphonates > Phosphonoacetic Acid > Foscarnet
... > Organic Chemicals > Carboxylic Acids > Acids, Acyclic > Acetates > Phosphonoacetic Acid > Foscarnet
... > Lipids > Fatty Acids > Fatty Acids, Volatile > Acetates > Phosphonoacetic Acid > Foscarnet

Preferred term

Foscarnet  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Phosphonoformic Acid

Scope note

  • An antiviral agent used in the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis. Foscarnet also shows activity against human herpesviruses and HIV.

History note

  • 1993 (1980); FOSCARNET was SY to PHOSPHONOFORMIC ACID (NM) 1983-1992

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017245

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