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. 1993 Oct;37(10):2239–2240. doi: 10.1128/aac.37.10.2239

Susceptibilities to rimantadine of influenza A/H1N1 and A/H3N2 viruses isolated during the epidemics of 1988 to 1989 and 1989 to 1990.

M Valette 1, J P Allard 1, M Aymard 1, V Millet 1
PMCID: PMC192258  PMID: 8257151

Abstract

Clinical isolates of influenza A viruses identified during outbreaks in two winters were tested for their rimantadine susceptibilities by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay modified from that described previously by Belshe et al. (R. B. Belshe, B. Burk, F. Newman, R. L. Cerruti, and I. S. Sim, J. Virol. 62:1508-1512, 1988). The infectivity titer and the 50% inhibitory concentration of rimantadine were calculated for each virus. Of 105 influenza virus A isolates tested, 28 influenza A/H1N1 isolates from the 1988 and 1989 outbreak and 77 influenza A/H3N2 isolates from the outbreak in following year, were susceptible to the antiviral action of rimantadine.

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