The large study, published inBMJ Open, investigated the prescription of antibiotics and antivirals for the management of influenza-like illness among 4.2 million patients from 550 general practices across Australia. Researchers found antibiotics prescribing for managing suspected cases of influenza declined ...
-RNA genome. The viral RNA polymerase has a high error rate of 1/10,000. Vaccines are composed of HA/NA subunits (purified from inactivated virions), purified subunits from recombinant sources, or live/attenuated strains of the endemic strains/subtypes of influenza A virus (currently H1N1 and...
Three influenza antivirals areused in Australia. Relenza (zanamivir) is an inhaled powder and Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is a capsule; both are five-day treatments. Rapivab (peramivir) is a single injection. These antivirals may also come withside effects, such as a headache, vomiting, cough, orf...
Dominic E DwyerCentre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW.John Wiley & Sons, LtdMedical Journal of AustraliaAntivirals in the management of an influenza pandemic - ME, Emery, et al....
Antiviral drugs for the treatment of influenza: a systematic review and economic evaluation. To evaluate the clinical effectiveness (including adverse events) and cost-effectiveness of antivirals for the treatment of naturally acquired influenza fo... J Burch,M Paulden,S Conti,... - 《Health Tech...
[32], were shown to exhibit efficient anti-influenza virus activityin vitroand/or in the mouse model without any signs ofadverse events. As predicted for a host-targeting drug, MEK inhibitors display a high barrier toward emergence of resistance[21]. Interestingly, the compounds were also shown...
The most common side effects of this vaccine were identified as headache, myalgia, influenza-like sickness and fatigue in clinical trials in 13–26% of participants in the first week of immunization [148]. The other variant of JE-VC vaccine, which is made up of the inactivated Beijing-1 ...