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US 5,149,531 AGranted
Method of using cold-adapted live influenza virus vaccine as an antiviral agent against influenza
AssigneeUniversity of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
InventorsJulius S. Youngner, Patricia W. Dowling
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Abstract
A method of treating a patient for having influenza includes introducing intranasally into said patient a prophylactically or therapeutically effective dosage of an attenuated reassortant live influenza virus as an antiviral agent and effecting by said introduction immediate interference with the growth of said influenza virus.
Claims15
A method of treating a patient for influenza virus comprising
- introducing as an antiviral agent a cold-adapted reassortant live influenza virus vaccine into said patient intranasally, and
- effecting by said introduction immediate interference with the growth of said influenza virus, whereby said interference with the growth of said influenza virus will be achieved without awaiting the body's production of antibodies to said influenza virus.
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