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US 3,943,247 AGranted
Treatment of bacterial infections with glucan compositions
AssigneesKaken Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Taito Co., Ltd.
InventorsNobuhiko Komatsu, Sumio Sakai, Gosaku Saito, Syoichi Kikumoto, Keitaro Kimura
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Abstract
Prevention and therapeutics of bacterial infections based on the activation of the reticuloendothelial system with glucan having .beta.-1, 3-linkage in the main chain, the derivatives and partially hydrolysed product thereof.
Claims5
A method of preventing or treating bacterial infectious diseases which comprises administering to a man or animal in need of said treatment or in need of prevention of bacterial infectious diseases, an antibacterially effective amount of a compound which is a glucan having the following formula:
- ##SPC3## the methylether, the carboxymethylether, the diethylaminoethylether, the acetylester, sulfonylester or phosphorylester thereof wherein each of n.sub.1 . . . n.sub.m is the number of linearly .beta. -- (1-3)-linked glucose residues, said n.sub.1 . . . n.sub.m is independently a number from 0 to about 10.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.