DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF BACTERIAL DYSENTERY.

摘要

There is provided the use of an agent in the preparation of a medicament for the prevention or treatment of an enteric infection mediated by an SLT, wherein said agent is a pharmaceutically acceptable solid inert affinity support capable of being eliminated from the gastrointestinal tract, which support has an affinity ligand covalently attached thereto through a spacer arm, wherein said ligand is characterized as an oligosaccharide containing the disaccharide subunit alpha Gal(1-4) beta Gal which binds the SLT; with the proviso that the disaccharide is not part of a alpha Gal(1-4) beta Gal(1-4) beta GlcNAc trisaccharide or a alpha Gal(1-4) beta Gal(1-4) beta Glc trisaccharide.