[In vitro effects of antiviral drugs on the reproduction of highly pathogenic influenza A/H5N1 virus strains that induce epizooty among poultry in the summer of 2005]

Abstract

Commercial drugs, such as rimantadine, amantadine, rivabirine, and arbidole, are effective in suppressing the in vitro reproduction of highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1 viruses. The study has used a porcine embryonic renal cell line and the highly pathogenic A/Duck/Novosibirsk/56/05 (H5N1) strain from a sick domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) (Chany Lake environs, Novosibirsk Region).