Antiparasitic: Mebendazole, Albendazole, Niclosamide, Antimony, Suramin, Pentamidine, Lindane, Permethrin mnemonic

Antiparasitic drugs

Mebendazole, albendazole [me bend & snap ass hole] - used against round worms
Niclosamide [nickel mite] - used against tapeworms
Antimony [ant money] - used against leishmania [leash]
Suramin - sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma gambiense/brucei) [sure-mine alarm is sure to wake up even from sleeping sickness]
Pentamidine - also used for sleeping sickness [dreaming of 5 heart dinner]
Topical lindane [line Great Dane licking the hand] - used against scabies (Sarcoptes scabiei ), a mite that burrows in the skin classically between the fingers.
- Causes peripheral neuropathy [peripherally cyanotic neuron] - avoid in small children
Topical permethrin [Perm on thin rollers] - Treatment of scabies and lice [lice jumping from the perm]