Flashcards: Antiprotozoal agents

Furazolidone is a nitrofuran antibacterial agent.

Secnidazole (trade names Flagentyl, Sindose, Secnil) is a nitroimidazole anti-infective.

Chlorquinaldol is an antimicrobial agent.

Disulfiram (sold under the trade names Antabuse and Antabus) is a drug discovered in the 1920s that is used to support the treatment of chronic alcoholism by producing an acute sensitivity to ethanol (alcohol).

Miltefosine (trade names Impavido and Miltex) is a broad-spectrum phospholipid antimicrobial drug.

Amphotericin B is an antifungal drug often used intravenously for serious systemic fungal infections and is the only effective treatment for some fungal infections.

Mepacrine (INN), also called quinacrine (USAN) or by the trade name Atabrine, is a drug with several medical applications.

Atovaquone (alternative spelling: atavaquone) is a chemical compound that belongs to the class of naphthoquinones.

Metronidazole (MNZ), marketed under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication.

Nitrofural (INN, trade name Furacin) is a bactericidal compound used as an antibiotic most commonly in the form of ointments.

Suramin is an antiparasitic drug developed by Oskar Dressel and Richard Kothe of Bayer, Germany in 1916, and is still sold by Bayer under the brand name Germanin.

Acetarsol is an anti-infective.

Teclozan is an antiprotozoal agent.

Tenonitrozole is an antiprotozoal agent.

Imidocarb is a urea derivative used in veterinary medicine as an antiprotozoal agent for the treatment of infection with Babesia (babesiosis) and other parasites.

Emetine is a drug used as both an anti-protozoal and to induce vomiting.

Amprolium (INN, trade names Amprovine, Amprolium, Amprol, Anticoccid) is a coccidiostat used in poultry.

Broxyquinoline is an antiprotozoal agent.

Tinidazole is an anti-parasitic drug used against protozoan infections.

Ornidazole is a drug that cures some protozoan infections.

Etofamide (INN, also known as eticlordifene) is an antiprotozoal drug used in the treatment of amoebiasis.

Glycobiarsol (trade name Milibis) is an antiprotozoal agent that has been used in humans as well as in dogs.

Phenamidine is an antiprotozoal drug of the amidine class used in veterinary medicine.

Quinfamide, is a drug that has anti-parasitic properties.

Sodium stibogluconate is a medication used to treat leishmaniasis and is only available for administration by injection.

Meglumine antimoniate (or meglumine antimonate) is a medicine used for treating leishmaniasis.

Diminazen(e) is an anti-infective medication for animals that is sold under a variety of brand names (see drugbox).

Nifurtimox is a 5-nitrofuran used to treat diseases caused by trypanosomes including Chagas disease and sleeping sickness.

Paromomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic, first isolated from Streptomyces krestomuceticus in the 1950s.

Pentamidine (formulated as a salt, pentamidine diisethionate or dimesilate) is an antimicrobial medication given to prevent and treat pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly named Pneumocystis carinii), a severe interstitial type of pneumonia often seen in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Melarsoprol is a medication used in the treatment of African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).

Propenidazole is an antiinfective imidazole derivative used in gynecology.

Fumagillin is a complex biomolecule and used as an antimicrobial agent.

Nitarsone is an organoarsenic compound that is used in poultry production as a feed additive to increase weight gain, improve feed efficiency, and prevent blackhead disease.

Nicarbazin is a coccidiostat used on meat chickens.

Clazuril is a drug used in veterinary medicine as a coccidiostat.

Phanquinone is an organic compound.

Diloxanide is a luminal amebicide used in the treatment of amebiasis.

Arsthinol (INN) is an antiprotozoal agent.

Maduramicin (maduramycin) is an antiprotozoal agent used in veterinary medicine to prevent coccidiosis.

Nimorazole (INN) is a nitroimidazole anti-infective.

Ronidazole is an antiprotozoal agent used in veterinary medicine for the treatment of histomoniasis and swine dysentery.

Megazol (CL 64855) is a nitroimidazole based drug that cures some protozoan infections.

Eflornithine (α-difluoromethylornithine or DFMO) is a drug found to be effective in the treatment of facial hirsutism (excessive hair growth) as well as in African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).

Benznidazole (formerly marketed by Hoffman-La Roche under the trade names Rochagan and Radanil) is an antiparasitic medication used in the treatment of Chagas disease.

Clefamide (trade name Mebinol) is an antiprotozoal agent that was used to treat amoebiasis in the 1960s.

Clioquinol (iodochlorhydroxyquin) is an antifungal drug and antiprotozoal drug.

Difetarsone is an antiprotozoal agent.

Trimetrexate is a quinazoline derivative.

Buparvaquone is a hydroxynaphthoquinone antiprotozoal drug related to parvaquone and atovaquone.

Carbarsone is an organoarsenic compound used as an antiprotozoal drug for treatment of amebiasis and other infections.

Carnidazole (trade names Spartrix, Pantrix) is an antiprotozoal drug of the nitroimidazole class used in veterinary medicine.

Chiniofon is an antiprotozoal agent.

Azanidazole is a nitroimidazole derivative used in gynecology for the treatment of trichomonal infections.

Dehydroemetine is a synthetically produced antiprotozoal agent similar to emetine in its anti-amoebic properties and structure (they differ only in a double bond next to the ethyl substituent), but it produces fewer side effects.

Ipronidazole is an antiprotozoal drug of the nitroimidazole class used in veterinary medicine.