Application of matrine to medicament for treating or preventing enterovirus 71 type infection
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Current Assignee / Owner
- WUHAN UNIV
- Publication Date
- 2011-11-16
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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[0001] The invention relates to the technical field of medicine, and more specifically relates to the application of matrine in a medicine for treating or preventing enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection. Background technique
[0002] Enterovirus 71 (human enterovirus 71, EV71) is a member of the Picornaviridae Enterovirus genus and was first isolated in 1969 from fecal samples of infants with central nervous system diseases in California. Usually EV71 infection will cause hand, foot and mouth disease, which is mild and mostly self-limiting, which is difficult to distinguish from hand, foot and mouth disease caused by Coxsackie A16. In addition, EV71 can also cause aseptic meningitis, brainstem encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, acute cardiopulmonary dysfunction and other serious neurological diseases, and even death. In recent years, EV71 has repeatedly caused disease outbreaks or epidemics in the world. For example, large-scale EV71 outbreaks occurred in the...