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Rapid and specific detection of amantadine-resistant influenza A viruses with a Ser31Asn mutation by the cycling probe method.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2010
Suzuki Yasushi, Saito Reiko, Zaraket Hassan, Dapat Clyde, Caperig-Dapat Isolde, Suzuki Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
Amantadine is one of the antiviral agents used to treat influenza A virus infections, but resistant strains have widely emerged worldwide. In the present study, we developed a novel method to detect amantadine-resistant strains harboring the Ser31Asn mutation in the M2 gene based on the cycling probe method and real-time PCR. We also studied the rate of amantadine resistance in the 2007-2008 influenza season in...
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