Patent ID: 8026221
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: A61K,A61P,G01N

Abstract:
1. A method for treating an active Norwalk-Like Virus (NLV) infection in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of a host who consumes a food or water source contaminated with the NLV, comprising the steps of: a. providing a medicament or pharmaceutical comprising a compound having the binding specificity of the antigenic determinant of a human histo-blood group antigen, the compound being at least one carbohydrate compound that competitively binds with a NLV at the determinant binding site of the NLV, the at least one carbohydrate compound selected from the group consisting of: b. administering orally the medicament or pharmaceutical to a host that has a NLV infection from consuming a food or water source contaminated with the NLV, in an effective amount of the compound sufficient to inhibit binding of the NLV in vivo to a histo blood group antigen in the GI tract of the host, which inhibits the active infection of the GI tract of the host by the NLV that contaminates the consumed food or water source.