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Anticestodal agent

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An anticestodal agent is a drug used to combat tapeworm infection.^[1] It derives its name from Cestoda.

Examples include:^[2]

References[edit]

^ Anticestodal agents at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
^ MeSH list of agents 82000923

See also[edit]

Taeniacide

Antiparasitics – Anthelmintics (P02) and Endectocides (QP54)

Antiplatyhelmintic agents

Antitrematodals
(schistosomicides)

Binds tubulin	benzimidazole Triclabendazole^#

AI	phosphonic acid Metrifonate^‡

Other/unknown	quinoline Praziquantel^# Oxamniquine^# phenol Bithionol thiazole Niridazole arylsulfonate Stibophen

Anticestodals
(taeniacides)

Binds tubulin	benzimidazole Albendazole^#

Other/unknown	quinoline Praziquantel^# salicylanilide Niclosamide^# aminoacridine Quinacrine butyrophenone Desaspidin chlorophenol Dichlorophen

Antinematodal agents
(including
macrofilaricides)

Binds tubulin	benzimidazole Mebendazole^# Albendazole^# Tiabendazole Fenbendazole Ciclobendazole Flubendazole

Glutamate-gated chloride channel, GABA receptor	avermectins Abamectin Doramectin Emamectin Ivermectin^# Selamectin milbemycins Moxidectin Milbemycin oxime

NMDA	tetrahydropyrimidine Pyrantel^# pyrantel pamoate Oxantel

Other/unknown	piperazine Piperazine Diethylcarbamazine^# thiazole Levamisole^‡# quinolinium Pyrvinium benzylammonium Bephenium naphthalenesulfonate Suramin^# Tribendimidine

^#WHO-EM
^‡Withdrawn from market
Clinical trials:
- ^†Phase III
- ^§Never to phase III

v t e Index of parasites and pests

Description	Acari lice ticks and mites Worms

Disease	Arthropod lice tick and mite flea Worms

Treatment	Drugs arthropod worm

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