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I met Claes Dohlman for the first time at an antiviral conference in 1963 sponsored by Allergan Pharmaceuticals in Irvine, California. We had both been invited to discuss the first antiviral drug effective against a human virus, herpes simplex. The medication was 5-iodo-2′-deoxyuridine, or IDU. It had initially been reported by Kaufman, Nesburn, and Maloney in 1962 [1], while Herbert Kaufman was an ophthalmology resident at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
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Laibson, P.R. (2020). Herpetic Keratitis: The Genesis of a Career in the Early Days of HSV Keratitis Research. In: Colby, K., Dana, R. (eds) Foundations of Corneal Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25335-6_4
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