KROK 1 2011 – Question 57 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
This drug has a destructive effect on erythrocytic forms of malarial plasmodia and dysenteric amoebae. It is used for treatment and prevention of such diseases as malaria, amebiasis and interstitial disease. What drug is it?
- A. Tetracycline
- B. Emetine hydrochloride
- C. Quinine
- D. Chingamin
- E. Erythromycin
Hint
Match the drug to both protozoal infections in the stem: it must act on blood-stage malarial parasites and also on amoebae, not on only one of them.
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