List of drugs used to treat schistosomiasis explained

A schistosomicide is a drug used to combat schistosomiasis.

List

Examples listed in MeSH include:

• amoscanate
• arteether
• artemether
• chloroxylenol
• hycanthone
• lucanthone
• metrifonate
• niridazole
• oltipraz
• oxamniquine
• praziquantel^[1]
• stibophen

See also

• Schistosomiasis vaccine

Further reading

• Abdul-Ghani . R . Loutfy . N . Sahn . A . Hassan . A . Apr 2009 . Current chemotherapy arsenal for schistosomiasis mansoni: alternatives and challenges . Parasitol Res . 104 . 5. 955–65 . 10.1007/s00436-009-1371-7. 19255786 .

Notes and References

1. McMahon JE, Kolstrup N . Praziquantel: a new schistosomicide against Schistosoma haematobium . Br Med J . 2 . 6202 . 1396–8 . December 1979 . 519476 . 1597073 . 10.1136/bmj.2.6202.1396.