How many drugs treat Herpes simplex infection of skin?

Drug Landscape tracks 3 marketed treatments for Herpes simplex infection of skin (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

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Herpes simplex infection of skin — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Herpes simplex infection of skin (disease) competitive landscape: 3 marketed treatments tracked, 0 Phase 3 candidates, 0 Phase 2 candidates. Recent regulatory actions and upcoming PDUFA dates across the entire treatment set.

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Marketed treatment landscape

Approved drugs treating Herpes simplex infection of skin, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	First approval
Zovirax	ACYCLOVIR	Ligand Pharms	Herpes Simplex Virus Nucleoside Analog DNA Polymerase Inhibitor [EPC]	Purine nucleoside phosphorylase	1982-01-01
Aciclovir	Aciclovir	Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille		Purine nucleoside phosphorylase, DNA polymerase catalytic subunit, Purine nucleoside phosphorylase
ACYC	ACYC	Ligand Pharms		Purine nucleoside phosphorylase, DNA polymerase catalytic subunit, Purine nucleoside phosphorylase

Phase 3 pipeline

No Phase 3 pipeline candidates tracked.

Phase 2 pipeline

No Phase 2 pipeline candidates tracked.

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this treatment set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this treatment set.

Sponsor landscape

Ligand Pharms · 2 drugs in Herpes simplex infection of skin
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille · 1 drug in Herpes simplex infection of skin

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Drug Landscape (2026). Herpes simplex infection of skin — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/herpes-simplex-infection-of-skin. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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