Taeniacide

A taeniacide is a substance that kills tapeworms.^[1] This makes it a class of antihelminthic agent.

It gets its name from the genus Taenia.

Examples

Natural taeniacides include pumpkin seed, cucumber and pomegranate.

Some synthetic taeniacides include diatrizoic acid, praziquantel, bunamidine and niclosamide.

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	salicylanilide (Niclosamide)^# • aminoacridine (Quinacrine) • butyrophenone (Desaspidin) • chlorophenol (Dichlorophen)

Binds tubulin	benzimidazole (Mebendazole^#, Albendazole^#, Thiabendazole, Fenbendazole, Ciclobendazole, Flubendazole)

Chloride channel	macrolide (Ivermectin^#)

NMDA	tetrahydropyrimidine (Pyrantel^#, Pyrantel pamoate, Oxantel)

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

helm,arth (acar)

helm, arth (lice), zoon

helm, arth