Sentences with phrase «with oseltamivir»
There's little experience with oseltamivir against H5N1, however.
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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.
They describe virus strains with mutations known to confer high resistance to oseltamivir, which they isolated from a 13 - year old girl and a 35 - year old woman killed by H5N1.
In October, researchers reported the first known case of partial oseltamivir resistance in a 14 - year - old Vietnamese girl infected with H5N1.
The transmissible viruses were sensitive to the antiviral drug oseltamivir and reacted well with antisera raised against H5 influenza vaccine strains.
The virus with this mutation remains sensitive to the antiviral drugs, oseltamivir and zanamivir, and studies show that currently available pandemic vaccines confer protection.
Animals displaying clinical signs were quarantined and aggressively treated by veterinarians with supplemental oxygen, anti-inflammatory medications, bronchodilators (nebulized albuterol), broad - spectrum antibiotics, and antivirals (oseltamivir and / or ribavirin).
Unnecessary use of anti-viral medications leads to resistance within the influenza virus population so it is important that medications such as oseltamivir not be used for infections which are not life - threatening in nature or which are likely to resolve with routine supportive care.