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Prophylaxis of influenza B with UK 2054.

P. N. Meenan, +1 more
- 20 Sep 1969 - 
- Vol. 294, Iss: 7621, pp 614-615
TLDR
Combined results show a significant difference in favour of UK 2054 in the suppression of symptoms and signs prior to challenge with influenza virus B/England/13/65.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1969-09-20. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Placebo.

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Double-Blind Clinical Assessment of Ribavirin (Virazole) in the Prevention of Induced Infection with Type B Influenza Virus

TL;DR: Ribavirin suppressed signs and symptoms induced by influenza B challenge, but its effectiveness was marginal.
Book ChapterDOI

4 Antiviral Agents

TL;DR: This chapter explains that as the knowledge increases of the biochemical events that occur from the time a virus comes in contact with a host cell to when new viruses emerge from the same cell, it starts to find more ways of interrupting the process.
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Antiviral effect of 3, 4-dihydro-1-isoquinolineacetamide hydrochloride in experimental human rhinovirus infection.

TL;DR: The prophylactic DIQA therapy appears to suppress the cold syndrome and to reduce virus excretion, although its effect is marginal.
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Cyclooctylamine of Experimental in the Prevention Human Influenza

TL;DR: The prophylactic effectiveness of intranasally given SK&F 23880A (cyclooctylamine hydrochloride) against induced A 2 /Hong Kong influenza was evaluated in double-blind trials and was effective in preventing overt influenza in susceptible subjects.
Dissertation

An evaluation of test methods in the chemotherapy of influenza A virus infections

TL;DR: To establish the most suitable methods for detecting and quantitating anti-influenzal activity, a number of in vitro and in vivo systems were compared, and only amantadine hydrochloride and Ribavirin proved sufficiently active for further work.
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Prophylaxis of influenza with a synthetic isoquinoline

TL;DR: When used prophylactically, the isoquinoline drug reduced by half the incidence of clinical illness and of virus infection when used against living influenza-B virus.
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