Patent ID: 11866706
Assignee: MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE
Field: Pharmaceuticals (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  A  Y | IPC A  C

Claim 8:
9. A method of controlling the spread of Zika virus (ZIKV) in a specimen of donated tissue or a specimen of donated organ, the method comprising exposing the specimen to an effective amount of an antiviral agent that restricts the replication of ZIKV in a cell, the antiviral agent comprising a phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO) comprising an antisense sequence of:, (SEQ ID NO: 3) 

5′-CAT GAC CAG AAA CTC TCG TTT CCA A-3′

or

 

 (SEQ ID NO: 5)

5′-CAT GGA GTC TCT GGT CTT TCC CAG C-3′.