Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Antiprotozoal

Index Antiprotozoal

Antiprotozoal agents (ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection. [1]

59 relations: Alkaloid, Anti-protist, Antibiotic, Antimicrobial chemotherapy, Antimicrobial resistance, Antimony, Antitrichomonal agent, Arsthinol, Biocide, Broxyquinoline, Buparvaquone, Carnidazole, Chiniofon, Clioquinol, Coccidiostat, Combretum molle, Copper zinc water filtration, Cupiennin, Difetarsone, Disulfiram, Econazole, Emetine, Etofamide, Evidence of common descent, Fexinidazole, Geranin A, Glycobiarsol, GNF6702, Histomoniasis, ICD-10 Chapter XIX: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes, Imidazole, Imidocarb, Index of HIV/AIDS-related articles, Infection, Infection control, Ipronidazole, List of MeSH codes (D16), Lupeol, Maduramicin, Medication, Medicinal fungi, Mepacrine, Metronidazole, Nitazoxanide, Pfizer, Phanquinone, Phenamidine, Protozoan infection, Ronidazole, SCYX-7158, ..., Steroidogenesis inhibitor, Streptomyces antibioticus, Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, Tenonitrozole, Tiabendazole, Tilbroquinol, Tritrichomonas blagburni, Trypanocidal agent, 1-Tetralone. Expand index (9 more) »

Alkaloid

Alkaloids are a class of naturally occurring chemical compounds that mostly contain basic nitrogen atoms.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Alkaloid · See more »

Anti-protist

Anti-protist or antiprotistal refers to an anti-parasitic and anti-infective agent which is active against protists.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Anti-protist · See more »

Antibiotic

An antibiotic (from ancient Greek αντιβιοτικά, antibiotiká), also called an antibacterial, is a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Antibiotic · See more »

Antimicrobial chemotherapy

Antimicrobial chemotherapy is the clinical application of antimicrobial agents to treat infectious disease.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Antimicrobial chemotherapy · See more »

Antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR) is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Antimicrobial resistance · See more »

Antimony

Antimony is a chemical element with symbol Sb (from stibium) and atomic number 51.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Antimony · See more »

Antitrichomonal agent

An antitrichomonal agent is an antiprotozoal agent that acts on trichomonas parasites.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Antitrichomonal agent · See more »

Arsthinol

Arsthinol (INN) is an antiprotozoal agent.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Arsthinol · See more »

Biocide

A biocide is defined in the European legislation as a chemical substance or microorganism intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism by chemical or biological means.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Biocide · See more »

Broxyquinoline

Broxyquinoline is an antiprotozoal agent.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Broxyquinoline · See more »

Buparvaquone

Buparvaquone is a hydroxynaphthoquinone antiprotozoal drug related to parvaquone and atovaquone.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Buparvaquone · See more »

Carnidazole

Carnidazole (trade names Spartrix, Pantrix, Gambamix) is an antiprotozoal drug of the nitroimidazole class used in veterinary medicine.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Carnidazole · See more »

Chiniofon

Chiniofon is an antiprotozoal agent.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Chiniofon · See more »

Clioquinol

Clioquinol (iodochlorhydroxyquin) is an antifungal drug and antiprotozoal drug.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Clioquinol · See more »

Coccidiostat

A coccidiostat is an antiprotozoal agent that acts upon Coccidia parasites.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Coccidiostat · See more »

Combretum molle

Combretum molle, the velvet bushwillow, is a plant species in the genus Combretum found in West-, East- and South Africa.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Combretum molle · See more »

Copper zinc water filtration

Copper zinc water filtration is a high-purity brass water filtration process that relies on the redox potential of dissolved oxygen in water in the presence of a zinc anode and copper cathode.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Copper zinc water filtration · See more »

Cupiennin

Cupiennins are a group of small cytolytic peptides from the venom of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Cupiennin · See more »

Difetarsone

Difetarsone is an antiprotozoal agent.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Difetarsone · See more »

Disulfiram

Disulfiram (sold under the trade names Antabuse and Antabus) is a drug used to support the treatment of chronic alcoholism by producing an acute sensitivity to ethanol (drinking alcohol).

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Disulfiram · See more »

Econazole

Econazole (commonly used as the nitrate salt) is an antifungal medication of the imidazole class.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Econazole · See more »

Emetine

Emetine is a drug used as both an anti-protozoal and to induce vomiting.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Emetine · See more »

Etofamide

Etofamide (INN, also known as eticlordifene) is an antiprotozoal drug used in the treatment of amoebiasis.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Etofamide · See more »

Evidence of common descent

Evidence of common descent of living organisms has been discovered by scientists researching in a variety of disciplines over many decades, demonstrating that all life on Earth comes from a single ancestor.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Evidence of common descent · See more »

Fexinidazole

Fexinidazole is an antiprotozoal agent.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Fexinidazole · See more »

Geranin A

Geranin A is a A type proanthocyanidin of the propelargonidin sub type.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Geranin A · See more »

Glycobiarsol

Glycobiarsol (trade name Milibis) is an antiprotozoal agent that has been used in humans as well as in dogs.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Glycobiarsol · See more »

GNF6702

GNF6702 is the name for a broad-spectrum antiprotozoal drug invented by researchers working at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in 2013, with activity against leishmaniasis, Chagas disease and sleeping sickness.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and GNF6702 · See more »

Histomoniasis

Histomoniasis (or histomonosis), also known as blackhead disease, is a commercially important disease of poultry, particularly of chickens and turkeys, due to parasitic infection of a protozoan, Histomonas meleagridis.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Histomoniasis · See more »

ICD-10 Chapter XIX: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

ICD-10 is an international statistical classification used in health care and related industries.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and ICD-10 Chapter XIX: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes · See more »

Imidazole

Imidazole is an organic compound with the formula C3N2H4.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Imidazole · See more »

Imidocarb

Imidocarb is a urea derivative used in veterinary medicine as an antiprotozoal agent for the treatment of infection with Babesia (babesiosis) and other parasites.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Imidocarb · See more »

Index of HIV/AIDS-related articles

This is a list of AIDS-related topics, many of which were originally taken from the public domain U.S. Department of Health Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms, 4th Edition.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Index of HIV/AIDS-related articles · See more »

Infection

Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Infection · See more »

Infection control

Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub-discipline of epidemiology.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Infection control · See more »

Ipronidazole

Ipronidazole is an antiprotozoal drug of the nitroimidazole class used in veterinary medicine.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Ipronidazole · See more »

List of MeSH codes (D16)

This is the fourth part of the list of the "D" codes for MeSH.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and List of MeSH codes (D16) · See more »

Lupeol

Lupeol is a pharmacologically active triterpenoid.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Lupeol · See more »

Maduramicin

Maduramicin (maduramycin) is an antiprotozoal agent used in veterinary medicine to prevent coccidiosis.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Maduramicin · See more »

Medication

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Medication · See more »

Medicinal fungi

Medicinal fungi are those fungi which produce medically significant metabolites or can be induced to produce such metabolites using biotechnology.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Medicinal fungi · See more »

Mepacrine

Mepacrine (INN), also called quinacrine (USAN) or by the trade name Atabrine, is a drug with several medical applications.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Mepacrine · See more »

Metronidazole

Metronidazole, marketed under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Metronidazole · See more »

Nitazoxanide

Nitazoxanide is a broad-spectrum antiparasitic and broad-spectrum antiviral drug that is used in medicine for the treatment of various helminthic, protozoal, and viral infections.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Nitazoxanide · See more »

Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. is an American pharmaceutical conglomerate headquartered in New York City, with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Pfizer · See more »

Phanquinone

Phanquinone is an organic compound.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Phanquinone · See more »

Phenamidine

Phenamidine is an antiprotozoal drug of the amidine class used in veterinary medicine.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Phenamidine · See more »

Protozoan infection

Protozoan infections are parasitic diseases caused by organisms formerly classified in the Kingdom Protozoa.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Protozoan infection · See more »

Ronidazole

Ronidazole is an antiprotozoal agent used in veterinary medicine for the treatment of histomoniasis and swine dysentery.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Ronidazole · See more »

SCYX-7158

SCYX-7158 (AN-5568) is an antiprotozoal drug invented by Anacor Pharmaceuticals in 2009, and now under development by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative for the treatment of African trypanosomiasis (Sleeping sickness).

New!!: Antiprotozoal and SCYX-7158 · See more »

Steroidogenesis inhibitor

A steroidogenesis inhibitor, also known as a steroid biosynthesis inhibitor, is a type of drug which inhibits one or more of the enzymes that are involved in the process of steroidogenesis, the biosynthesis of endogenous steroids and steroid hormones.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Steroidogenesis inhibitor · See more »

Streptomyces antibioticus

Streptomyces antibioticus (previously known as Actinomyces antibioticus) is a gram-positive bacterium discovered in 1941 by Nobel-prize-winner Selman Waksman and H. Boyd Woodruff.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Streptomyces antibioticus · See more »

Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine

Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, sold under the brandname Fansidar, is a combination medication used to treat malaria.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine · See more »

Tenonitrozole

Tenonitrozole is an antiprotozoal agent.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Tenonitrozole · See more »

Tiabendazole

Tiabendazole (INN, BAN), thiabendazole (AAN, USAN), TBZ (and the trade names Mintezol, Tresaderm, and Arbotect) is a fungicide and parasiticide.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Tiabendazole · See more »

Tilbroquinol

Tilbroquinol is an antiprotozoal agent effective against amoebiasis.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Tilbroquinol · See more »

Tritrichomonas blagburni

Tritrichomonas blagburni is a genus of parasite that infects the digestive system of cats.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Tritrichomonas blagburni · See more »

Trypanocidal agent

A trypanocidal agent is an antiprotozoal agent that acts upon trypanosome parasites.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and Trypanocidal agent · See more »

1-Tetralone

1-Tetralone is a bicyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with an α-keto group (a benzocycloalkanone) and can also be regarded as benzo-fused cyclohexanone.

New!!: Antiprotozoal and 1-Tetralone · See more »

Redirects here:

Anti-protozoal, Antiprotozoal agent, Antiprotozoal agents, Antiprotozoal drug, Antiprotozoal medication, Antiprotozoals.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotozoal

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »