Fujifilm Corporation

Hoshi University

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Synstar Japan Co., Ltd.

Schweizerisches Tropen-und Public Health-institut

Chika Arai

Reto Brun

Isamu Itoh

Masataka Ihara

Nasser Saad Mohamed Ismail

Mei Yang

Jian-Feng Ge

Saad Mohamed Ismail Nasser

Provided is a medicinal composition, in particular, a medicinal composition for treatment and/or prevention which has a high therapeutic effect on infection with a parasitic protozoa and a selective toxicity thereto and exhibits a life-prolonging effect and so on. A medicinal composition which contains as the active ingredient a benzo[a]phenoxazine compound represented by General formula (1) or a salt compound of the same, in particular, an agent for treating and/or preventing infection with a protozoa such as malaria, leishmaniasis, African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, lymphatic filariasis, babesiosis or coccidium disease; and a novel compound which is contained therein as the active ingredient.

Medicinal composition containing benzo[a]phenoxazine compound as the active ingredient for prevention or treatment of protozoal disease

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Tokyo, Japan

Chika Arai