Composition used for improving or preventing herpes virus infection

Abstract

The invention aims at providing a composition used for improving or preventing herpes virus infection, and a herpes virus infection model is employed to take in bifidobacterium. As a result, the virus amount is reduced, and development of the infection symptom is inhibited. It is discovered that even if the immune function of the herpes virus infection model is reduced, the inhibiting effect is not affected, thus, when the immune function of the host is prevented from being reduced, bifidobacterium is effective for the relapse aspect of the herpes virus infection.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a composition for improving or preventing herpes virus infection. More specifically, it relates to a composition for improving or preventing herpes virus infection containing bifidobacterium as an active ingredient. Background technique [0002] Herpes virus infection is a disease caused by herpes virus infection, such as cold sores caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection, genital herpes caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection, etc. . [0003] Thus, the diseases are caused by a variety of herpes viruses, but are identical in terms of latent infection and relapse. That is, it is known that the herpes virus remains dormant in the ganglia after initial infection on the body surface, and recurs when the immune function of the host is lowered due to stress or the like. [0004] In addition, nucleic acid analogues such as acyclovir and valacyclovir are used in the treatment of herpes virus i...

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Problems solved by technology

However, until now, bifidobacteria and the like have been reported to improve the symptoms of various diseases, but no examples of application to the treatment of herpes virus infection have been reported.

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