Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Piramal Enterprises Limited

Piramal Life Sciences Limited

Becky Mary Thomas

Satish Namdeo Sawant

Ram Asrey Vishwakarma

Girish Badrinath Mahajan

Meenakshi Sivakumar

Chandrakant Govind Naik

Prabha Devi

Lisette D'Souza

Koteppa Pari

Saji George

Arvind Saklani

Arno Appavoo Enose

Zarine Eruch Patel

Sridevi Krishna

Rajan Mukund Panshikar

Sreekumar Sankaranarayanan Eyyammadichiyil

Prabhu Dutt Satyanarayan Mishra

Prafull Vasant Ranadive

Natasha Kapoor

Ashish Malani

Rupa Bhowmick

Ritu Kaushik

The present invention relates to a composition comprising extract of the plant. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of the composition and to the composition for the use in the treatment of viral infections, particularly caused by herpes simplex viruses (HSV). The invention further relates to a method of treating a viral infection in a mammal comprising administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of the composition.

Antiviral composition

This invention relates to a novel purified compound PM181104, of formula: of molecular weight 1514 and molecular formula CHNOS; which is obtained by fermentation of the microorganism belonging tospecies (ZMA B-1/MTCC 5269). The invention includes all stereoisomeric forms and all tautomeric forms of the compound PM181104 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives such as esters and ethers. The present invention further relates to processes for the production of the novel antibacterial compound(s), to the production of the microorganism belonging tospecies (ZMA B-1/MTCC 5269), and to pharmaceutical compositions containing the novel compound(s) as an active ingredient and its/their use in medicines for treatment and prevention of diseases caused by bacterial infections.

Antibacterial compounds

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Becky Mary Thomas