Quick Start Instructions

Use character strings (words) separated by a space.

Terms are automatically right truncated. The database searches for all words starting with the character strings entered (except for the date and number fields).

Words are automatically ANDed together.

Use the Full Record field for full text searching. Use the indexing fields for more precise searching (but read below about their limitations).
Example - entry of "retrovir vector" in the Full Record field will retrieve records containing words starting with "retrovir" (e.g., "retroviruses" and "retroviral") AND words starting with "vector" (e.g., "vectors").
Antiviral Agents Bulletin database records are displayed most recent first. BIOPHARMA product records are displayed most recent approvals first.
Spaces and punctuation delimit searchable words.
The hyphen (-) is not a delimitter. For example "interleukin-1" will retrieve records with "interleukin-1" and "interleukin-12".

Antiviral Agents Bulletin

Agent - includes names, often as common acronyms (e.g., AZT, DDI) for drugs, biologics and physical agents with antiviral activity substantively discussed in Bulletin articles.
Organization - Companies and other organizations discussed in articles.
Virus/Disease - The viral and/or disease targets discused in articles.
Keyword - For news articles, used only where other index terms don't adequately describe article such as terms for actions, such as approval, patent dispute, etc. For patents, use this field to search the Patent Check Tags, controlled indexing terms used to characterize agents/technologies.