Some evidence suggests that the drug's actions are more effective at preventing infections from RNA viruses than infections from DNA viruses.
As replication requires the use of RNA intermediate, viruses from the Caulimoviridae family are not true dsDNA viruses - instead they are termed DNA reverse-transcribing viruses.
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