Antiparasitic

Question 0

Blood schizonticide
Prevents polymerization of heme to hemozoin
Nonfalciparum malaria
WOF retinal damage and auditory impairment porphyria

Answer 0

Chloroquine

Question 1

Tissue schizonticide
Gametocide
Eradicates hypnozoites
Radical cure and terminal prophylaxis of vivax and ovale
WOF methemoglobinemia hemolysis in G6PD patients

Answer 1

Primaquine

Question 2

Blood schizontocide
Complexes DNA to prevent strand separation
Chloroquine resistant malaria
Severe falciparum malaria
DOC PREGNANT MALARIA
WOF HEMOLYSIS IN BLACKWATER FEVER

Answer 2

Quinine

Question 3

Blood schizonticide
Chemoprophylaxis in chloroquine resistant areas
WOF conduction defects and psychosis

Answer 3

Mefloquine

Question 4

Blood schizonticide
Impairs progeny of malarial apicoplast genes
WOF Tooth enamel dysplasia
Do not drink with MILK

Answer 4

Doxycycline

Question 5

Blood schizonticide

Uncomplicated falciparum DOC

Answer 5

Artemther lumefantrine

Question 6

Blood schizonticide
Tissue schizonticide
Tx and prophy of chloroquine resistant falciparum

Answer 6

Atovaquone Proguanil

Question 7

Blood schizontocide and Sporonticide
Chlroquine resistant falciparum
WOF FA deficiency

Answer 7

Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine

Question 8

Malaria chemoprophylaxis

Answer 8

Chloroquine
Mefloquine and Malarone
Doxycycline

Question 9

Asymptomatic cyst carriers of Entamoeba histolytica DOC

Answer 9

Diloxanide Furoate

Question 10

Backup drug for severe intestinal and extraintestinal amebiasis

Answer 10

Emetine

Question 11

Mild to severe intestinal amebiasis

WOF Thyroid enlargement and neurotoxicity

Answer 11

Iodoquinol

Question 12

DOC severe intestinal and extraintestinal amebiasis

WOF metallic taste

Answer 12

Metronidazole

Question 13

Backup for asymptomatic cyst carriers

Answer 13

Paromomycin

Question 14

DOC CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS

Metronidazole resistant amebiasis

Answer 14

Nitazoxanide

Question 15

DOC PNEUMOCYSTOSIS

Answer 15

Cotrimoxazole

Question 16

Backup for pneumocystosis

Answer 16

Pentamidine

Question 17

DOC TOXOPLASMOSIS

Answer 17

pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine

Question 18

West African T gambiense
Early
Late

Answer 18

Pentamidine

Eflornithine DOC

Question 19

East African T rhodense
Early
Late WOF reactive encephalopathy

Answer 19

Suramin

Melarsoprol DOC

Question 20

DOC CHAGAS

Answer 20

Nifurtimox

Question 21

DOC LEISHMANIASIS worldwide
WOF sterile abscesses cardiotoxicity
DOC LEISHMANIASIS India

Answer 21

Sodium stibogluconate

Amphotericin B

Question 22

DOC ASCARIS ANCYLOSTOMA NECATOR CAPILLARIA

DOC HYDATID DISEASE

Answer 22

Albendazole

Question 23

DOC TRICHURIS

Answer 23

Mebendazole

Question 24

DOC ENTEROBIUS

Answer 24

Pyrantel palmoate

Question 25

DOC FILARIASIS Eye worm diseases

Answer 25

DEC

Question 26

DOC Strongyloidiasis

Answer 26

Ivermectin

Question 27

DOC Trichinosis | back up for Strongyloidiasis

Answer 27

Thiabendazole

Question 28

DOC for trematodes (flukes) and cestodes (flat worms, except Echinococcus) CI ocular cysticercosis

Answer 28

Praziquantel

Question 29

Alternative drug for cestodes (flatworms)

Answer 29

Niclosamide