Epsiprantel (trade name Cestex) is a

veterinary drug An animal drug (also veterinary drug) refers to a drug intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals. Regulation United States The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the broad mandat ...

which is used as an

anthelmintic Anthelmintics or antihelminthics are a group of antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing significant damage to the host. They may a ...

against

tapeworm Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria). Larvae have six posterior hooks on the scolex (head), in contrast to the ten-hooked Cestodar ...

s such as ''

Echinococcus granulosus ''Echinococcus granulosus,'' also called the hydatid worm, hyper tape-worm or dog tapeworm, is a cyclophyllid cestode that dwells in the small intestine of canids as an adult, but which has important intermediate hosts such as livestock and huma ...

''.

Indications

It is indicated for the removal of

cestodes Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of the species—and the best-known—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are ribbon-like worms as adults, known as tapeworms. Their bodies consist of man ...

(tapeworms) in cats (''

Dipylidium caninum ''Dipylidium caninum,'' also called the flea tapeworm, double-pored tapeworm, or cucumber tapeworm (in reference to the shape of its cucumber-seed-like proglottids, though these also resemble grains of rice or sesame seeds), is a cyclophyllid c ...

'' and ''

Taenia taeniaeformis ''Taenia taeniaeformis'' is a parasitic tapeworm, with cats as the primary definitive hosts. Sometime dogs can also be the definitive host. The intermediate hosts are rodents and less frequently lagomorphs (rabbits). The definitive host must i ...

'') and dogs (''Dipylidium caninum'' and ''

Taenia pisiformis ''Taenia pisiformis'', commonly called the rabbit tapeworm, is an endoparasite, endoparasitic tapeworm which causes infection in lagomorphs, rodents, and carnivores. Adult ''T. pisiformis'' typically occur within the small intestines of the defi ...

'') 7 weeks of age and older.

References

Anthelmintics Veterinary drugs Benzazepanes Heterocyclic compounds with 3 rings Cyclohexyl compounds {{antiinfective-drug-stub