Patent ID: 8158664

Claim:
A method for the therapeutic treatment of a Plasmodium falciparum or Trichomonas vaginalis infection, the method comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of general formula I: in which X and Y are either the same or different, and are each a heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, N, and S; is a double or single bond depending on the heteroatoms X and Y; R 1 to R 5 are either the same or different and selected from hydrogen or a non-deleterious substituent; and R 6 and R 7 are either the same or different, and selected from hydrogen and a non-deleterious substituent, or one of R 6 and R 7 are absent when there is a double bond present, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof.