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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1996
Jerry A Peterson, Lafayette, CA (US);
David S Newburg, Newtonville, MA (US);
Robert H Yolken, Baltimore, MD (US);
Cancer Research Fund of Contra Costa, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Senomed, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA (US);
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
An anti-diarrheic product comprises a foodstuff and an anti-rotaviral agent such as human defatted fat globule membranes, the human milk macromolecular fraction, skim milk, curd, whey, the milk mucin complex, the 46 Kd app.MW glycoprotein, a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence having the rotavirus binding specificity of the 46 Kd app.MW HMFG glycoprotein or mixtures thereof. An anti-diarrheal kit comprises the anti-rotaviral agent of this invention and instructions for its use, and optionally a foodstuff. A method for inhibiting or countering rotavirus infection in mammalian cells comprises contacting the cells with an anti-rotaviral amount of the agent of this invention. A therapeutic method for inhibiting the onset of or countering rotavirus infection comprises administering to a subject afflicted with or at risk for rotavirus infections such as those occuring, for example, in infants and children (infantile gasteroenteritis) and immunodeficient persons or those who have received a transplant, an anti-rotaviral effective amount of the agent of this invention.