Medicaments
OwnerVictoria S. Latter, Winston E. Gutteridgeinventors
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Abstract
A method and certain compositions for treating Pneumocystis carinii infections in a mammal by administering a certain naphthoquinone compound or physiologically acceptable salts thereof.
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A method of treating a Pneumocystis carinii infection in a mammal which comprises administering to said mammal having said infection an effective Pneumocystis carinii treatment amount of a naphthoquinone of the general formula (II):
- ##STR3## or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.
A method of treating Pneumocystis carinii infection in a mammal, which comprises administering to a mammal having said infection an effective Pneumocystis carinii treatment amount of 2-[trans-4-(4-chlorophenyl)cyclohexyl]-3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone.
A method of preventing Pneumocystis carinii infections in an immunocompromised mammal which comprises administering to said mammal an effective P.carinii prevention amount of a naphthoquinone of the general formula (II):
- ##STR4## or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.
A method of preventing Pneumocystis carinii infections in an immunocompromised mammal, which comprises administering to said mammal an effective Pneumocystis carinii prevention amount of
- 2-[trans-4-(4-chlorophenyl)cyclohexyl]-3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone.
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