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Trematodes
Flat worms
Cestodes
Helminth
Tissue type
Round worms
(Nematodes)
Intestinal type
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Nematodes
A) INTESTINAL ROUND WORMS
Ascaris lmubricoides (common round worm)
Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
Trichuris trichuria (whipworm)
Strongyloids stercoralis (threadworm) Strongyloidiasis
Ancylostoma duodenale & Necator americanus
(hookworm)
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Other round worms
FILARIAE, includes:
1. Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis)
2. Loa loa (loiasis)
3. Onchocerca volvulus (onchocerciasis)
River blindness.
4. Brugia malayi and B. timori
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Cestodes (tape worms)
1. Tenia saginata (Beef tapeworm)
2. Tenia solium (Pork tapeworm),
3. Cysticercosis (Pork tapeworm larval stage)
4. Hymenolepis nana (Dwarf tapeworm)
5. Diphyllobothrium latum (Fish tapeworm)
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Hydatid tape worm
Echinococcus species
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TREMATODES/FLUKES (leaf-like)
Schistosoma mansoni
Schistosoma hematobium
Schistosoma Japonicum
Paragonimus species Paragonimiasis
Fasciolopsis buski
Fasciola hepatica
Clonorchis sinensis
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ANTIHELMINTIC DRUGS
BENZIMIDAZOLEs
1.ALBENDAZOLE:
It possess broad-spectrum activity . It is the drug of
choice for treatment of
1. Hydatid disease and
2. Neurocysticercosis.
It is also a major drug the treatment of (intestinal
nematodes) :
1. Ascariasis,
2. Trichuriasis,
3. Strongyloidiasis,
4. Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm),
5. Nector americanus, & Ancylostoma duodenale
(Hookworms) infections.
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Albendazole contd
Mechanism of action:
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Pharmacokinetics of Albendazole:
It is a benzimidazole carbamate
urinary excretion
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Clinical uses of albendazole:
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2. Hydatid diseases:
Drug of choice, with meals.
Bone cyst may require treatment for 1 year.
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Albendazole contd
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Albendazole cond
Adverse effects:
In short term use there is no significant adverse
effects.
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Mebendazole cont
Pharmacokinetics:
1. Less than 10% of orally administered drug is absorbed
2. Absorption increases with fatty meals
3. Absorbed drug is 90% protein bound
4. It is converted to inactive metabolites rapidly in liver.
5. It has half life of 2-6 hours
6. It is primarily excreted in bile.
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Mebendazole cont
Clinical uses:
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Mebendazole cond
Adverse effects and precautions:
1. No adverse effects in short term therapy except for mild GI
disturbances.
2. With high dose hypersensitivity reactions, agranulocytosis ,
alopecia, elevation of liver enzymes.
3. Contraindicated in pregnancy.
4. Used with caution under 2 years of age may cause convulsion in
this group.
5. carbamazepine or phneytoin conc. Cimetidine conc.
6. used with caution in cirrhosis
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Thiabendazole
It is benzimidazole. It is tasteless and insoluble in water.
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Thiabendazole cond:
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Clinical uses:
Should be given after meals and tablets should be
chewed
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Thiabendazole contd
Adverse reactions and contraindications:
1. It is more toxic than other benzamidazoles
2. GI disturbances
3. Pruritus, headache, drowsiness, neuropsychiatric symptoms
rarely may cause tinnitus, bradycardia, hypotension,
hyperglycemia, convulsions, neutropenia and other adverse
effects may occur.
4. Irreversible live failure.
5. Fatal StevensJohnson syndrome (inflammation of the skin)
6. Not used in children below the weight of 15 kg, during
pregnancy, hepatic and renal diseases.
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PYRANTEL PAMOATE
It is a broad-specturm antihelminthic
It is not effective against trichuriasis (whipworms) and
trichostrongylus orientalis infections, yet oxantel
pamoate is considered effective against trichuriasis. Both
drugs can be combined for their synergistic effect.
Pharmacokinetics:
It is poorly absorbed orally. Active mainly against
luminal organisms.
Half of the drug is excreted unchanged in the feces.
Mechanism of action:
It is a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent that
causes release of acetylcholine and inhibition of
cholinesterase leading to the paralysis of worms
followed by their expulsion from the GIT.
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Pyrantel pamoate (contd)
Efficacy and clinical uses:
it is very effective against mature and immature luminal
organisms, but not effective against migratory stages in
the tissues or against ova
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Pyrantel pamoate contd:
Adverse effects are infrequent and mild.
1. GI disturbance
2. Drowsiness, headache ,insomnia.
3. Rash, fever
Contraindications:
1. Should not be used in liver diseases.
2. Pregnancy
3. In children under 2 years of age
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PIPERAZINE
Only used for the treatment of ascariasis.
It is readily absorbed orally and excreted in urine
Mechanism of action:
It causes paralysis of ascaris by blocking
acetylcholine at the myoneural junction, expelling
the live worm by normal peristalsis.
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Piperazine contd
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Piperazine contd
Adverse effects:
1. GI disturbances
2. Neurotoxicity, allergic reactions serum sickness
like syndrome
Contraindications
1. Epilepsy or chronic neurologic disease
2. Impaired liver or kidney functions
3. Pregnancy
4. Malnutrition
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Drugs used for treating human intestinal nematodes
(single dose unless otherwise stated
Piperazine ++ + ++ - -
Pyrantel pa ++ ++ ++ - -
Albendazole ++ ++ ++ + +
Mebendazole ++ ++ ++ + +
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Drug treatment for tape worm(cestodes)
infection
Niclosamide
Praziquantel
Albendazole
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NICLOSAMIDE
It is useful for the treatment of adult tape worm
(cestodes) infestation
Mechanism of action:
Adult worm is rapidly killed by inhibition of the
oxidative phosphorylation or stimulation of ATPase
activity.
has no effect on ova
Pharmacokinetics:
It is not absorbed from the gut
Neither drug nor its metabolites are found in the
blood or urine.
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Niclosamide contd
Clinical uses:
A. T. Saginata (Beef tape worm),T. solium (pork tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium
latum (fish tapeworm)
In case of T. solium after 2 hrs of treatment, purge of magnesium sulphate should be
given to eliminate all
mature segments.
Not effective against cysticercosis or hydatid disease. b/c
its not absorbed from the gut
Hymenolepis nana
H diminuta and Dipylidium caninum
Alternative for Fasciolopsis buski, Heterophyes heterophyes, Metagonimus
yokogawi.
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Niclosamide contd
Adverse effects:
Mild, infrequent and transitory GI
disturbances
Alcohol consumption should be avoided
Not indicated in children under 2 years of
age or pregnancy.
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Diethylcarbamazine
The drug of choice for the treatment of filariasis,
loiasis and tropical eosinophilia.
Pharmacokinetics:
It is a synthetic derivative of piperazine
Rapidly absorbed from the gut
It has a half life of 2-3 hours which increases in
alkaline urine up to 10 hours.
Equilibrates with all tissues except fat
It is excreted in urine unchanged.
Dosage is reduced in urinary alkalosis and renal
impairment.
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DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE cond
Mechanism of action:
It immobilizes microfilariae in tissues and alters its
surface structure, making them more susceptible to
destruction by host defense mechanism
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DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE cond
It is a drug of choice for the treatment tissue cestodes,
W. bancrofti, B. malayi, B. timori, and Loa loa.
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DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE cond
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DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE cond
Drug induced/ Reactions induced by
Dying parasites:
Fever , malaise, papular rash, headache,
GI disturbance, cough, chest, muscle, joint
pain
Leukocytosis, proteinurea, eosinophilia
Retinal hemorrhage
Encephalopathy
Lymphangitis and lymphadenopathy.
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DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE cond
Contraindications and cautions
1. Hypertension
2. Renal disease
3. Patient suspected of having malaria
4. Patients with lymphangitis
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IVERMECTIN
It is the drug of choice for treatment of
strongyloidasis and onchocerciasis
It is a macrocyclic lactone
It is used orally and is rapidly absrobed,
possesses wide volume of distribution
about 50 L.
It has a half-life of 16 hrs
It is exclusively excreted in feces
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IVERMECTIN contd
Mechanism of action:
It intensifies GABA mediated
transmission of signals in peripheral
nerves paralyzing the worm.
In onchocerciasis it is microfilaricidal. It
does not kill the adult worm
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IVERMECTIN contd
Clinical uses:
Onchocerciasis: with the 1st treatment,
patients with microfilariae in the cornea or
anterior chamber may be treated with
corticosteroid.
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IVERMECTIN contd
Strongyloidiasis: in immunosuppresed
patient, repeated treatment is often
needed.
Bancrofti filaricidal: as it is mirofilaricidal
It is also used for scabies, lice, and
cutaneous larva migrans.
Eliminates adcarid worms
Reduces microfilariae in Brugia malayi
and M ozzardi.
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IVERMECTIN contd
Adverse effects:
1. Fatigue
2. dizziness,
3. GI disturbance
In Onchocerciasis:
1. Mazotti reaction: fever, headache, dizziness,
somnolence (state of being drowsy), weekness,
rash ,diarrhea, arthralagia, hypotension,
lymphadenitis, peripheral edema due to killing of
microfiliariae, for this steroids may be necessary
for several days
2. Swelling and abscess at site of adult worm
3. Punctuate corneal opacities.
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IVERMECTIN cond
Contraindication:
1. other drugs that enhance GABA activity
e.g Barbiturates, bnezodiazepines,
valproic acid.
2. pregnancy
3. Impaired blood brain barrier
4. Children under 5 years of age.
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BITHIONOL
It is the drug of choice for the treatment of
fascioliasis (sheep liver fluke)
Pharmacokinetics:
It is orally administered and excreted in urine.
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BITHIONOL
Adverse effects:
1. GI disturbance
2. Dizziness,headache
3. Pruriuts ,urticaria,Leucopenia
Contraindications and precautions:
1. hepatitis,
2. leucopenia
3. Used with caution under 8 years of age.
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