use of nucleosides in the manufacture of a drug for the treatment of diseases caused by a retrovirus or the hepatitis b virus.

摘要

Use of a compound of formula (I), wherein A is beta -2'-deoxy-D-ribofuranosyl or beta -D-arabinofuranosyl; R1 is hydroxy or amino; R2 is cycloalkyl or alkyl-substituted cycloalkyl containing 1-5 carbon atoms; saturated or unsaturated, straight or branched alkyl containing 1-5 carbon atoms which may be unsubstituted or substituted with halogen, hydroxy, mercapto, trifluoroalkyl or difluoroalkyl containing 1-3 carbon atoms, phenoxy or alkoxy containing 1-3 carbon atoms; phenyl or phenylalkyl containing 1-3 carbon atoms in the alkyl part, or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, for manufacture of a medicament for therapeutic or prophylactic control or treatment of retrovirus, especially HIV, or hepatitis B virus infections in animal and man and to a method of such treatment.