DRUGS USED TO TREAT INFECTIONS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIA, VIRUSES, FUNGI, VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES, PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, HELMINTHIC INFESTATIONS, AND ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS

• ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENTS
•     ethambutol (Myambutol)
•     isoniazid (INH)
•     rifampin (Rifadin)
•     capreomycin sulfate (Capastat)
•     cycloserine
•     ethionamide
•     para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS)
•     pyrazinamide
•     clofazimine (Lamprene)
•     dapsone (Udolac)
•     sulfoxone (Diasone)

• ANTIVIRAL DRUGS
•     vaccines
•     sera
•     inducers of general resistance

• ANTIVIRAL ANTI-INFECTIVE DRUGS
•     acyclovir (Zovirax)
•     amantadine (Symmetrel)
•     idoxuridine
•     ribavarin
•     vidarabine
•     zidovudine (AZT, Retrovir, Zovirax, Azidothymidine)

• ANTIFUNGALS
•     superficial infections
•     clotrimazole (Lotrimin, Gyne-Lotrimin, Myclex)
•     griseofulvin (Grisactin)
•     ketoconazole (Nizoral)
•     miconazole (Monistat)
•     nystatin (Mycostatin, Mycolog)
•     systemic infections
•     amphotericin B (Fungizone)
•     flucytosine (Ancoban, Ancotil)

• PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS
•     antimalarial agents
•     chloroquine phosphate (Aralen)
•     hydroxychloroquine sulfate (Plaquenil)
•     mefloquine (Lariam)
•     doxycycline (Vibramycin)
•     proguanil (Paludrine)
•     primaquine
•     pyrimethamine (Daraprim)
•     pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine (Fansidar)
•     quinacrine (Atabrine)
•     quinine (Quinamm)
•     amebiasis
•     carbarsone
•     chloroquine (Aralen)
•     dehydroemetine
•     diloxanide (Entamide)
•     emetine
•     iodoquinol (Diquinol, Floraquin, Panaquin)
•     metronidazole (Flagyl)
•     paromomycin (Humatin)
•     pneumocystis carinii
•     pentamidine isethionate (Pentam)

• HELMINTHIC INFESTATIONS
•     mebendazole (Vermox)
•     piperazine (Vermisol)
•     pyrantel pamoate (Antiminth)
•     pyrvinium pamoate (Vanquin)
•     quinacrone (Atabrine)
•     tetrachlorethylene
•     thiabendazole (Mintezol)

• ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS
•     scabicides
•     benzyl benzoate (Scabanca)
•     crotamitron (Eurax)
•     permethrin (Elmite)
•     delousing agents
•     lindane (Kwell, Linane Shampoo)

    pyrethrins with piperonyl butoxide (R & C Shampoo, RID)

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