Oxantel is 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 ...

. It has typically been used in human and animal medicine as a treatment for intestinal worms. Oxantel has been shown to inhibit

fumarate reductase Fumarate reductase is the enzyme that converts fumarate to succinate, and is important in microbial metabolism as a part of anaerobic respiration. Succinate + acceptor fumarate + reduced acceptor Fumarate reductases can be divided into two classe ...

in some pathogenic bacteria.

References

Antiparasitic agents Phenols Alkene derivatives Pyrimidines {{antiinfective-drug-stub