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Product Name: Praziquantel
CAS: 55268-74-1
EINECS: 259-559-6
MF: C19H24N2O2
MW: 312.41
Assay: 99%
Grade: Pharmaceutical Grade
Appearance: White Powder
Usage: Pharmaceutical Raw Materials
Praziquantel, marketed as Biltricide, is an anthelmintic used in humans and animals for the treatment of tapeworms and flukes. Specifically, it is effective against schistosoma, Clonorchis sinensis the fish tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum.
It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system.
Praziquantel is used to treat diseases in humans, mammals, and fish that are caused by infection with several types of internal/gastrointestinal, and external parasites, including:
1)Salmon poisoning disease.
2)Hydatid disease caused by infection of various organs with larval stages of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus.
3)Cysticercosis caused by infection of the brain and/or muscles with the eggs and larvae of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium (though it has been judged less effective than albendazole in treatment of neurocysticercosis).
4)In cats and dogs whose gastrointestinal tract is infected with the tapeworms Dipylidium caninum or Taenia taeniaeformis, respectively; praziquantel is also often used in fixed combination with pyrantel embonate against the roundworms (ascarids): Toxocara cati and Toxascaris leonina.Praziquantel is also effective against Echinococcus multilocularis.
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