An Antiviral Drug-Peramivir: Degradation and Identification of Impurities and the Endorsement of an HPLC-MS Method.

Background: Peramivir is a neuraminidase inhibitor that serves as a transition state analogue for influenza neuraminidase, inhibiting the formation of new viruses in infected cells, and has been approved for intravenous administration.

Objective: To validate an HPLC method used to identify the degraded products of the antiviral drug peramivir.

Methods: Herein, we report the identification of compounds formed after the degradation of peramivir through acid, alkali, peroxide, thermal, and photolytic degradation.

The prevalance of celiac disease in West Virginia.

Celiac disease (CD) has been long considered as a "European disease" that is rarely seen in the North America. Recent data has refuted this notion and suggested that celiac disease in the United States is as common as in Europe. The atypical clinical presentation of celiac disease was one of the major reasons implicated for the under-diagnosis of this disease in American children.