• Thumbnail for Albendazole
    Albendazole is a broad-spectrum antihelmintic and antiprotozoal agent of the benzimidazole type. It is used for the treatment of a variety of intestinal...
    63 KB (5,157 words) - 23:33, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lymphatic filariasis
    Medications usually include a combination of 2 or more anthelmintic agents: albendazole, ivermectin, and diethylcarbamazine. Efforts to prevent mosquito bites...
    41 KB (4,569 words) - 00:36, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Filariasis
    outside the United States is albendazole combined with ivermectin. A combination of diethylcarbamazine and albendazole is also effective. Side effects...
    24 KB (2,874 words) - 21:01, 13 July 2024
  • In enzymology, an albendazole monooxygenase (EC 1.14.13.32) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction albendazole + NADPH + H+ + O2 ⇌ {\displaystyle...
    2 KB (199 words) - 13:01, 26 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Trichinosis
    Infection is typically treated with antiparasitic medication such as albendazole or mebendazole. Rapid treatment may kill adult worms and thereby stop...
    44 KB (4,770 words) - 23:03, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neurocysticercosis
    epileptic therapy and a long-course medication of praziquantel (PZQ) and/or albendazole. Steroid therapy may be necessary to minimize the inflammatory reaction...
    10 KB (949 words) - 22:02, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ascariasis
    Treatments recommended by the World Health Organization are the medications albendazole, mebendazole, levamisole, or pyrantel pamoate. Other effective agents...
    34 KB (3,409 words) - 08:47, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pinworm infection
    with two doses of the medications mebendazole, pyrantel pamoate, or albendazole two weeks apart. Everyone who lives with or takes care of an infected...
    37 KB (3,602 words) - 02:00, 26 May 2024
  • The drugs of choice for soil-transmitted helminths are mebendazole and albendazole; for schistosomiasis and tapeworms it is praziquantel. Many early treatments...
    17 KB (1,853 words) - 03:15, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Echinococcosis
    surgical intervention, followed by medications. The medication used is albendazole, which may be needed for years. The alveolar disease may result in death...
    54 KB (5,834 words) - 22:22, 28 February 2024