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I don't think this is particularly (at least the drugs part) high yield but this is my list from First Aid - please feel free to add or elaborate:
Drug - Disease - Causative agent
1) Ivermectin - River blindness - Onchocerca volvulus.
2) Praziquantel - Cysticercosis, B12 Deficiency, Liver cysts, Schistosomiasis, Cholangiocarcinoma (after gallstones,) Lung infection and hemoptysis - Taenia Solium, Diphyllobothrium Latum, Echinococcus granulosus, Schistosoma Mansoni or hematobium, Clonorchis sinesis, Paragonimus westermani
3) Bendazoles - Various primarily obstructive or inflammatory manifestations by worms - Ascaris Lumbricoides, Enterobius Vermacularis, Strongloides stercoralis, Trichinella sprialis, Ancylostoma duodenale
4) Chloroquine / Primaquine - Malaria - Plasmodium sp.
5) Suramin and Melarsaprol - African sleeping sickness - Trypanosoma Gambisiense and T. Rhodenisiense
6) Metronidazole - Anaerobic and other infections - Giardia L., Entamoeba H. (with Iodoquinol), Trichomonas V., Garnerella.
7) Nifurtimox - Chagas Disease - Trypanosoma cruzi
8) Sodium Stibogluconate - Leishmaniasis - L. Donovani
9) Diethylcarbazine - Skin swelling (worm in eye), Elephantiasis, Visceral larva migrans and granulomas - Loa loa, Wuschereria Bancroft and Toxocara Canis
10) Niridazole - Skin inflammation and ulceration - Niridazole
11) Sulfadiazine and Pyramethamine - Congenital Toxo - T. Gondii
12) Quinine - Babesiosis - Babesia M.
13) Iodoquinol (and Metronidazole) - Flask shaped liver abcesses - Entamoeba H.,
Drug - Disease - Causative agent
1) Ivermectin - River blindness - Onchocerca volvulus.
2) Praziquantel - Cysticercosis, B12 Deficiency, Liver cysts, Schistosomiasis, Cholangiocarcinoma (after gallstones,) Lung infection and hemoptysis - Taenia Solium, Diphyllobothrium Latum, Echinococcus granulosus, Schistosoma Mansoni or hematobium, Clonorchis sinesis, Paragonimus westermani
3) Bendazoles - Various primarily obstructive or inflammatory manifestations by worms - Ascaris Lumbricoides, Enterobius Vermacularis, Strongloides stercoralis, Trichinella sprialis, Ancylostoma duodenale
4) Chloroquine / Primaquine - Malaria - Plasmodium sp.
5) Suramin and Melarsaprol - African sleeping sickness - Trypanosoma Gambisiense and T. Rhodenisiense
6) Metronidazole - Anaerobic and other infections - Giardia L., Entamoeba H. (with Iodoquinol), Trichomonas V., Garnerella.
7) Nifurtimox - Chagas Disease - Trypanosoma cruzi
8) Sodium Stibogluconate - Leishmaniasis - L. Donovani
9) Diethylcarbazine - Skin swelling (worm in eye), Elephantiasis, Visceral larva migrans and granulomas - Loa loa, Wuschereria Bancroft and Toxocara Canis
10) Niridazole - Skin inflammation and ulceration - Niridazole
11) Sulfadiazine and Pyramethamine - Congenital Toxo - T. Gondii
12) Quinine - Babesiosis - Babesia M.
13) Iodoquinol (and Metronidazole) - Flask shaped liver abcesses - Entamoeba H.,
