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  • Title: [Experience with the use of amantadine for the control of an influenza outbreak at an Elderly Home].
    Author: Pérez Rodríguez AE, González Ochoa E, Expósito Rivas L, Rodríguez Leyva O.
    Journal: Rev Cubana Med Trop; 1990; 42(2):261-71. PubMed ID: 2089509.
    Abstract:
    A study of an outbreak of acute respiratory disease was done at the "Carlos Font Pupo" Old People's Home. Las Tunas Province, where 30 diseased old individuals were detected; grippe was diagnosed to two of them. General attack rate was 8.6%. Curative treatment with amantadine was administered to 29 old patients and chemoprophylaxis to 26, for a total of 55 old individuals treated. The evolution of the patients was satisfactory and none new case was observed. Diarrhea was the only one secondary reaction observed in a patient under chemoprophylactic treatment. The need to carry on performing similar studies is pointed out.
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