What is "antiprotozoal"

a. (context medicine English) That inhibits or destroys protozoa n. (context medicine English) Any drug used to fight diseases caused by protozoa

n. a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa [syn: antiprotozoal drug]

Antiprotozoal agents ( ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection.

Protozoans have little in common with each other (for example, Entamoeba histolytica, an unikont eukaryotic organism, is less closely related to Naegleria fowleri, a bikont eukaryotic organism, than it is to Homo sapiens, which belongs to the unikont phylogenetic group) and so agents effective against one pathogen may not be effective against another.

They can be grouped by mechanism or by organism. Recent papers have also proposed the use of viruses to treat infections caused by protozoa.