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Macrolide antibiotic and its use as a medicinal agent

US4988677A · kind A · utility

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2References

4Claims

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Assignee

Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

Christopher Milton Mathew Franco · Yellandu, IN
Julia Gandhi · Yellandu, IN
Sugata Chatterjee · Yellandu, IN
Goukanapalli C. S. Reddy · Yellandu, IN
Bimal N. Ganguli · Yellandu, IN
Richard H. Rupp · Königstein, DE
Herbert Kogler · Königstein, DE
Hans-Wolfram Fehlhaber · Idstein, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 25, 1987
Grant date	Jan 29, 1991
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 25, 2007

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC12R2001/465
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to the macrolide antibiotic swalpamycin, to a microbiological process for its preparation, to a new microorganism strain Streptomyces species, and to the use of swalpamycin as a medicinal agent for the treatment of infections caused by bacteria, mycoplasmas and Actinomycetes.

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