Antiamoebic Drugs
1. Intestinal and extraintestinal amoebiasis (Hepatic amoebiasis)
2. Drug effective only intestinal amoebiasis (Luminal amoebiasis)
3. Drug used in entraintestinal amoebiasis
1. Intestinal and extraintestinal amoebiasis (Hepatic amoebiasis)
Metronidazole
Tinidazole
Orindazole
Secnidazole
Satranidazole
Emetine
Dehydroemetin
2. Drug effective only intestinal amoebiasis (Luminal amoebiasis)
Diloxanide furoate
Tetracycline
Paromomycin
Quinidochlor
Isoquinoline
3. Drug used in entraintestinal amoebiasis
Chloroquine
9. Antimalarials Drug
Classification of antimalarials drug
1. Causal prophylactic (primary tissue schizontocides)
(Destroy parasite in liver cells and prevent invasion of Erythrocytes)
Primaquine
Pyrimethamine (folate antagonists)
2. (Suppressive form) Blood schizontocides (destroy parasite in RBC and terminal clinical attacks of malaria)
Chloroquine
Quinine
Mefoquine
Halofantrine
Hydroxychloroquinine
Pyrimethamine
Chloroguanide
Artemisinin
3. Tissue schizontocides (act on hypnozoites of P. vivax and P. ovale that reproduce relapse)
Primaquine (Hypnozoitocidal drug)
4. Gametocidal Drug (destroy gametocytes and prevent transmission)
Primaquine
Chloroquine
Quinin
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