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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2020

Baloxavir Marboxil in Japanese Pediatric Patients With Influenza: Safety and Clinical and Virologic Outcomes.

Nobuo Hirotsu, Hiroki Sakaguchi, Chisako Sato, Toru Ishibashi, Keiko Baba, Shinya Omoto, Takao Shishido, Kenji Tsuchiya, Frederick G Hayden, Takeki Uehara and 1 more

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nobuo HirotsuHirotsu Clinic, Kanagawa, Japan.
Hiroki SakaguchiShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Chisako SatoShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Toru IshibashiShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Keiko BabaShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Shinya OmotoShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Takao ShishidoShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Kenji TsuchiyaShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Frederick G HaydenUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Takeki UeharaShionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan.
Akira WatanabeResearch Division for Development of Anti-Infective Agents, Faculty of Medical Science and Welfare, Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Sendai, Japan.
Shionogi (Japan) · JPTohoku Bunka Gakuen University · JPUniversity of Virginia · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe assessed the safety and effectiveness of baloxavir marboxil administration in Japanese children with influenza.

methodsThis open-label study administered 1 weight-adjusted dose of baloxavir to 107 children aged 1-11 years with laboratory-confirmed, febrile influenza virus infection of ≤48 hours duration.

resultsAdverse events (AEs) were reported in 34.6% of patients, most commonly vomiting (7.5%); no serious AEs or AEs causing discontinuation occurred. The median time to alleviation of influenza illness was 44.6 hours (95% confidence interval, 38.9-62.5 hours), to resolution of fever was 21.4 hours, and to sustained cessation of infectious viral shedding was 24.0 hours. However, viruses with amino acid substitutions in the viral polymerase acidic protein at position I38 (PA/I38T/M) emerged in 18 of 77 (23.4%) patients. Emergence was associated with longer infectious virus detectability (median time, 180.0 hours) and time to illness alleviation (median, 79.6 vs 42.8 hours in patients without PA/I38T/M-substituted viruses). Among patients with PA/I38T/M-substituted virus emergence, those with baseline hemagglutinin inhibition (HAI) antibody titer <40 experienced delay in time to illness alleviation (median, 85.4 vs 56.0 hours in patients with higher baseline HAI antibody titer).

conclusionsA single, oral dose of baloxavir marboxil was well tolerated and rapidly reduced viral titers, but the common emergence of PA/I38T/M-substituted viruses warrants consideration of alternative dosing regimens in young children. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION: Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center Clinical Trials Information (Japic CTI-163417).

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