Sentences with phrase «drug oseltamivir»

The oral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu) is an antiviral drug used to treat influenza infections.

The transmissible viruses were sensitive to the antiviral drug oseltamivir and reacted well with antisera raised against H5 influenza vaccine strains.

Some camps have given out the antiviral drug oseltamivir to healthy campers to prevent the spread of the virus, which violates CDC guidelines.

Governments have been stockpiling the antiviral drug oseltamivir as a defence against pandemic flu.

Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and prominent member of the Cochrane Collaboration, was charged with reviewing studies of the antiflu drug oseltamivir, sold as Tamiflu, during the height of the avian flu scare in 2005.

A new study published by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the drug oseltamivir — commonly known as Tamiflu — does not cause an increased risk of suicide in pediatric patients.

Not exact matches

«Although billions have been spent on oseltamivir in the face of pandemic influenza,» the journal states, investigators «found that the public evidence base for this global public health drug was fragmented and inconsistent».

Fortunately, studies so far have shown that oseltamivir - resistant strains don't replicate very well, says epidemiologist Arnold Monto, an expert in flu drugs at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Two drug classes: adamantanes (FDA approved in 1966) and neuraminidase inhibitors (oseltamivir, FDA approved in 1999) represent two classes of drugs that target viral an ion channel and a cell surface antigen, respectively, hereby preventing or treating infection.

Wearing a mask and goggles did not seem to prevent infection; taking an antiviral drug called oseltamivir did, but a quarter of the cullers and half of the farmers did not take the drugs.

Recently, some countries have added zanamivir (Relenza) and other drugs to their arsenal, but for many, oseltamivir is still the only weapon.

The key findings of both studies were in agreement: in order for a nascent pandemic to be controlled there needs to be 3 million courses of oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-- the antiviral drug — available for the World Health Organization to mobilise and deploy internationally, immediately.

The specter of a pandemic strain that's resistant to oseltamivir — also known as Tamiflu — worries flu experts because it could render countries» massive stockpiles of the drug useless.

Governments across the world have built up stocks of millions of doses of the antiviral drug, also known as oseltamivir.

The virus with this mutation remains sensitive to the antiviral drugs, oseltamivir and zanamivir, and studies show that currently available pandemic vaccines confer protection.

At the moment, the only influenza antivirals approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration are the neuraminidase inhibitors, compounds that include Roche's Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza (zanamivir).

One such drug is the drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir), used to treat early influenza infections in humans.