介護老人保健施設でのインフルエンザ感染発症に対するリン酸オセルタミビル予防投与の効果

Abstract

Fourteen patients in a healthcare center for the elderly (100 beds) at Hokushin General Hospital contracted influenza due to influenza virus A in February 2006. To prevent the spread of the disease, the preventive administration of oseltamivir was conducted for 44 non-infected patients at a daily dose of 1 capsule daily for a period of 1 to 3 days. There were no new cases of influenza during the 1 week period from the start of the administering oseltamivir suggesting that this method of preventing influenza was more successful than influenza vaccination.