Flu viruses with reduced sensitivity to drugs intended to prevent or limit infection have been found in patients not previously treated with these drugs, according to an international research team led by a UW-Madison researcher.
The emergence of drug-resistant influenza spreading by human-to-human contact was documented in a study of Japanese patients. University of Wisconsin virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka was the lead author of a report on the findings in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.