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[Report on the therapeutic use of rimantadine and amantadine]

Author(s): Perez Rodriguez AE, Exposito Rivas L, Rodriguez Leyva O, Goyenechea Hernandez A

Affiliation(s): Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kouri.

Publication date & source: 1992, Rev Cubana Med Trop., 44(2):145-8.

A discussion is carried out about the experiences with the application of rimantadine and amantadine to patients with influenza. The basic general results consisted in the fact that 2 of the 74 patients treated had a high cure percent (> 68.0%) within the first 72 hours after using the drug. No new diseased were found among the 40 contacts to whom chemoprophylaxis was applied. There were only 3.9% adverse reactions among the total number of people treated with amantadine.

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