Definition & Meaning | English word ANTIPROTOZOAL
ANTIPROTOZOAL
Definitions of ANTIPROTOZOAL
- (pharmaceutical effect) That inhibits or destroys protozoa
- (pharmaceutical drug) Any drug used to fight diseases caused by protozoa
Number of letters
13
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ANTIPROTOZOAL in a Sentence
- This resistance affects all classes of microbes, including bacteria (antibiotic resistance), viruses (antiviral resistance), protozoa (antiprotozoal resistance), and fungi (antifungal resistance).
- Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication.
- The main uses of mepacrine are as an antiprotozoal, antirheumatic, and an intrapleural sclerosing agent.
- Clioquinol (iodochlorhydroxyquin) tradename Entero-Vioform is an antifungal drug and antiprotozoal drug.
- Some of the first evidence in modern times of Giardia's pathogenicity came during World War II when soldiers were treated for malaria with the antiprotozoal quinacrine, and their diarrhea disappeared, as did the Giardia from their stool samples.
- 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 group), but it produces fewer side effects.
- Carbarsone is an organoarsenic compound used as an antiprotozoal drug for treatment of amebiasis and other infections.
- Acetarsol has the molecular formula N-acetyl-4-hydroxy-m-arsinillic acid, and it is a pentavalent arsenical compound with antiprotozoal and anthelmintic properties.
- Etofamide (INN, also known as eticlordifene) is an antiprotozoal drug used in the treatment of amoebiasis.
- 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.
- Clefamide (trade name Mebinol) is an antiprotozoal agent that was used to treat amoebiasis in the 1960s.
- There are antiprotozoal drugs, such as the 28-day course of ponazuril, to treat the disease, as well as anti-inflammatories to alleviate neurologic symptoms.
- Lupeol has a complex pharmacology, displaying antiprotozoal, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, antitumor and chemopreventive properties.
- Ronidazole is an antiprotozoal agent used in veterinary medicine for the treatment of histomoniasis and swine dysentery as well as Trichomonas gallinae, hexamitosis, Giardia, and Cochlosoma in all aviary birds and pigeons.
- Imidocarb is a urea derivative used in veterinary medicine as an antiprotozoal agent for the treatment of infection with Babesia (babesiosis) and other parasites.
- Carnidazole (trade names Spartrix, Pantrix, Gambamix) is an antiprotozoal drug of the nitroimidazole class used in veterinary medicine.
- Maduramicin (maduramycin) is an antiprotozoal agent used in veterinary medicine to prevent coccidiosis.
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