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  • Second Tamiflu-resistant virus in Japan

    The Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare announced Friday that another oseltamivir-resistant virus was found in Yamaguchi prefecture from a patient of novel influenza after prophylaxis of oseltamivir.
    The patient has already recovered and no further infection from the patient has been confirmed.

    According to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, a spot mutation at H275Y of Neuraminidase was confirmed in the virus. No reassortment with the seasonal influenza virus was found.

    Source: http://www.mhlw.go.jp/kinkyu/kenkou/...fuh0717-04.pdf
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