[On the biological action of transition metal complexes. 2. The antiviral activity of 4-methyl-2-amino-pyridine-palladium-chloride (IV)].

4-methyl-2-amino-pyridine-palladiumchlorid (IV) showed an inactivation of cell-free enveloped DNA and RNA viruses in serum-free saline such as vaccinia, pseudorabies, herpes type 1, Newcastle disease and influenza virus A/fowl plague, human influenza type A and B and vesicular stomatitis viruses, and adenovirus, a naked DNA virus, too. Picorna viruses were not inactivated, the inactivation of other viruses failed in medium with 10% serum. However the replication of enveloped viruses as checked with vaccinia and fowl plague viruses was inhibited, also when the compound was present only for 1 h after infection. Contrary to this the multiplication of adenovirus was depressed only with 90%. For the inactivation of viruses high concentrations were necessary than for the inhibition of replication. Therefore more than one kind of mode of action have to be taken into consideration.