Abstract
This chapter discusses the oxamniquine. Oxamniquine became available in 1975 for the treatment of the tropical disease schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm infection of man. Oxamniquine is a metabolite of the most active of a novel series of 2-aminomethyltetrahydroquinoline compounds that showed promising schistosomicidal activity and low toxicity in laboratory animals. The drug is effective in all stages of the infection and in patients with hepatosplenic involvement. It causes worms to shift from the mesenteric veins to the liver where they are destroyed. The primary mechanism of action of oxamniquine in unknown, even though the drug exhibits anticholinergic properties. It is a light orange crystalline powder. Its melting point is 151° to 152°C. Its pale yellow crystals are obtained from isopropanol.
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