Patent ID: 8598193

Claim:
A method for treating a mammal infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which comprises administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of one or more compounds of formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or derivatives thereof, wherein A, together with the atoms to which it is attached, forms an optionally substituted pyridyl ring; linker —B—C— is an optionally substituted linker of the formula —CH 2 (CH 2 ) z —, where z is 1; R 1 is optionally substituted aryl; R 2 is —C(O)R 3 , where R 3 is selected from —(CH 2 ) m aryl and —(CH 2 ) m heterocyclyl; where m is 0 or 1; and the aryl and heterocyclyl groups are optionally substituted; and X is O.