Method for identifying compounds with anti-herpes activity

摘要

The invention relates to a method for identifying compounds with antiviral activity, characterized in that those compounds are selected in the presence of which resistant viral mutants can be selected, wherein at least one selected viral mutant carries at least one mutation in the primase gene and another selected viral mutant carries at least one mutation in the helicase gene or a selected viral mutant carries at least one mutation in the helicase and at least one mutation in the primase gene.