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Richard Broadhurst1, Anne Mounsey1

  • 1University of North Carolina Family Practice Residency Program, Chapel Hill, USA.

The Journal of Family Practice
|September 24, 2016
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Abstract:

Treatment of influenza virus infection with oral oseltamivir reduces time to alleviation of symptoms in adults and children by approximately one day compared with placebo. It reduces symptom duration even when initiated more than 2 days after symptom onset.

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