Method of treating viral infections in humans and compositions therefor

US4880782A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US
• DEUTSCHES PRIMATENZENTRUM GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Fritz Eckstein · Göttingen, DE
• Gerhard Hunsmann · Göttingen, DE
• Heinz Hartmann · Buckenhof, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 22, 1987
• Grant date: Nov 14, 1989
• Expiry date: Apr 22, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07H19/16
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method of treating viral diseases in a human subject is disclosed. The method involves applying effective amounts of the compound: ##STR1## wherein X is an azido group, a methoxy radical or a fluorine atom and B is thymine, uracil, guanine, cytosine, purine or hypoxanthine if X is methoxy or fluorine, and B is guanine, purine or hypoxanthine if X is azido or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed are compositions and compounds useful in the method.