NEURAMINIDASE INHIBITORS FOR INFLUENZA OSELTAMIVIR PHOSPHATE TAMIFLU AND ZANAMIVIR RELENZA

NEURAMINIDASE INHIBITORS FOR INFLUENZA OSELTAMIVIR PHOSPHATE (TAMIFLU ) AND ZANAMIVIR (RELENZA ) 

USAN Oseltamivir phosphate Trade name Tamiflii Company Gilead, Roche Launched 1999 M.W. 312.4 (parent) 

Influenza develops in approximately 20% of the global population each year. The 1918 influenza killed 50 million people worldwide, when an avian flu was passed on to humans. Chemistry genius Robert Burns Woodward lost his father to the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic when he was only two years old. The Asian influenza occurred in 

The An ofDmg Synthesis. Edited by Douglas S. Johnson and Jie Jack Li Copyright 2007 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

The influenza neuraminidase is one of two major glycoproteins located on the influenza virus membrane envelope (the other one is haemagglutinin, HA). As the name suggests. 

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