How many drugs treat Varicella?

Drug Landscape tracks 5 marketed treatments for Varicella (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

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Varicella — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

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

Varicella (disease) competitive landscape: 5 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 Varicella, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	First approval
Valtrex	valaciclovir	GSK	Herpes Simplex Virus Nucleoside Analog DNA Polymerase Inhibitor		1995-01-01
Zovirax	ACYCLOVIR	Ligand Pharms	Herpes Simplex Virus Nucleoside Analog DNA Polymerase Inhibitor [EPC]	Purine nucleoside phosphorylase	1982-01-01
Vaccine Support Cp	Vaccine administration	Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island	vaccine	unknown
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 Varicella
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille · 1 drug in Varicella
GSK · 1 drug in Varicella
Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island · 1 drug in Varicella

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Drug Landscape (2026). Varicella — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/varicella. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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