Patent ID: 7973021

Claim:
A method of treating diseases caused by hepatitis A virus, polio virus, rotavirus, cholera vibrio, dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacteria, Salmonella, Campyrobacter , melioidosis bacteria, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Brucella , coliform bacillus O-157, broad tapeworm, “Yokogawakyuchu” (Metagonimus yokogawai), liver flukes, Echinostomida , lung flukes, Anisakis, Gnathostomiasis, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Entamoeba histolytica, Cryptosporidium, Plasmodium or microfilaria; food allergy or pollen allergy, comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a cyclic tetrasaccharide having the structure of cyclo{→6)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→3)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-( 1→3)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→}, wherein said diseases are treated by modulating gut immunity.