Antiparasitic Flashcards
Blood schizonticide
Prevents polymerization of heme to hemozoin
Nonfalciparum malaria
WOF retinal damage and auditory impairment porphyria
Chloroquine
Tissue schizonticide
Gametocide
Eradicates hypnozoites
Radical cure and terminal prophylaxis of vivax and ovale
WOF methemoglobinemia hemolysis in G6PD patients
Primaquine
Blood schizontocide Complexes DNA to prevent strand separation Chloroquine resistant malaria Severe falciparum malaria DOC PREGNANT MALARIA WOF HEMOLYSIS IN BLACKWATER FEVER
Quinine
Blood schizonticide
Chemoprophylaxis in chloroquine resistant areas
WOF conduction defects and psychosis
Mefloquine
Blood schizonticide
Impairs progeny of malarial apicoplast genes
WOF Tooth enamel dysplasia
Do not drink with MILK
Doxycycline
Blood schizonticide
Uncomplicated falciparum DOC
Artemther lumefantrine
Blood schizonticide
Tissue schizonticide
Tx and prophy of chloroquine resistant falciparum
Atovaquone Proguanil
Blood schizontocide and Sporonticide
Chlroquine resistant falciparum
WOF FA deficiency
Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine
Malaria chemoprophylaxis
Chloroquine
Mefloquine and Malarone
Doxycycline
Asymptomatic cyst carriers of Entamoeba histolytica DOC
Diloxanide Furoate
Backup drug for severe intestinal and extraintestinal amebiasis
Emetine
Mild to severe intestinal amebiasis
WOF Thyroid enlargement and neurotoxicity
Iodoquinol
DOC severe intestinal and extraintestinal amebiasis
WOF metallic taste
Metronidazole
Backup for asymptomatic cyst carriers
Paromomycin
DOC CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS
Metronidazole resistant amebiasis
Nitazoxanide