title: Antiparasitic drugs.
abstract: Antiprotozoan drugs of choice include: chloroquine for malaria; diiodohydroxyquin for asymptomatic intestinal amebiasis; metronidazole for acute amebic colitis, extraintestinal amebiasis and trichomoniasis; quinacrine for giardiasis; quinine-pyrimethamine-sulfadiazine for chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for pneumocystis pneumonia. Anthelmintic drugs of choice include: mebendazole for roundworm, pinworm, whipworm and hookworm infections; niclosamide for tapeworm infections, and thiabendazole for trichinosis.
mesh_terms: D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011528:Protozoan Infections / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000871:Anthelmintics; D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents