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Amantadine-resistant influenza A (H3N2) viruses in Iran.
Acta virologica - 1 Jan 2009
Yavarian J, Mokhtari Azad T, Shafiei Jandaghi N Z, Nategh R
Abstract excerpt
Adamantanes have been used for the prophylaxis and treatment of Influenza A virus (IAV) infections worldwide. However, they have limited use because of increasing number of resistant viruses during recent years. In investigating the frequency of amantadine-resistant IAVs (H3N2) circulating in Iran in 2005-2008, we found that M2 sequences of recently circulating viruses that were amantadine-resistant contained a...
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