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Influenza virus susceptibility and resistance to oseltamivir.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2007
Aoki Fred Y, Boivin Guy, Roberts Noel
Abstract excerpt
Oseltamivir phosphate is a prodrug of oseltamivir carboxylate, a highly specific inhibitor of influenza virus neuraminidases. Given that oseltamivir carboxylate binds to highly conserved, essential amino acids in the catalytic site of the enzyme, and that the activity of neuraminidase is critical for virus release from infected cells and subsequent virus spread, the drug was expected to have a low propensity to...
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