Week 9: lessons 25, 26, 27 Anthelmintic drugs

Three major groups of helminths (worms), nematodes, trematod, and cestodes, infect humans. As in all antibiotic regimens, the anthelmintic drugs (Figure 37.1) are aimed at metabolic targets that are present in the parasite but are either absent from or have different characteristics than those of the host. Figure 37.2 illustrates the high incidence of helmintic infections

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