Parasitic worm eradication

The use of drugs to eradicate micro-organisms and parasitic worms in the body is called chemotherapy. Drugs that are used to treat infections with micro-organisms are known as antimicrobial drugs or antibiotics. The first antibiotics were naturally produced by micro-organisms nowadays many are produced synthetically. Infestations with parasitic worms are treated with drugs called antihelmintics. 

Anthelmintics are drugs that act locally to expel worms from the GI tract or systemicaUy to eradicate adult helminths or developmental forms that invade organs and tissues. Because metazoan parasites generally are long-lived and have relatively complex life cycles, acquired resistance to anthelmintics in humans is not a major factor limiting clinical efficacy. The extensive use of anthelmintics in veterinary medicine ensures that the potential of drug resistance among helminths in humans cannot be discounted. 

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