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Anti-protozoal Flashcards

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1
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Toxoplasma

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Pyrimethamine + sulfadiazine

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Sleeping sickness (trypanosoma brucei)

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Suramin and melarsoprol

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Chagas disease (trypanosoma cruzi)

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Nifurtimox

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4
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Leishmaniasis

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Sodium stibogluconate

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Chloroquine

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Blocks detoxification of heme into hemozoin, accumulation of heme is toxic to plasmodia…not useful for falciparum due to membrane pump resistance…causes retinopathy and pruritis

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Plasmodium falciparum

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Artemether/lumefantine or atovaquone/proguanil

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Life-threatening malaria

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Quinidine/quinine

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Anti-helminth agents

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All immobilize helminths: albendazole, mebendazole, ivermectin, pyrantel, praziquantel, diethylcarbamazine

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