ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT BASED ON PHLOROTANNINS

• Main Authors: GINNAGA AKIHIRO, NAKAMURA TAKASHI, NAGAYAMA KIMINORI, HIRAYAMA IZUMI, IWAMURA YOSHITOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.10.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMISTRY; FISHING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FORESTRY; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRAPPING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antibacterial agent based on a phlorotannin. SOLUTION: The antibacterial agent is based on a phlorotannin. More particularly, the agent is one wherein the phlorotannin is selected from among phloroglucinol, eckol, phlorofucofuroeckol A, dieckol, 8,8'-bieckol, or a combination of at least two of these substances. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO