{{missing information|Why this category exists: what kind of non-heterotrophic protozoan needs to be treated?|date=October 2021}} '''Anti-protist''' or '''antiprotistal''' refers to an anti-parasitic and anti-infective agent which is active against protists. Unfortunately due to the long ingrained usage of the term antiprotozoal, the two terms are confused, when in fact protists are a supercategory. Therefore, there are protists that are not protozoans.<ref name="Pommerville2014">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d444cjZoFtwC&pg=PA824|title=Fundamentals of Microbiology|author=Jeffrey C. Pommerville|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|year=2014|isbn=978-1-4496-4796-4|pages=824–}}</ref><ref name="PommervilleAlcamo2012">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uf_Hl3Exti8C&dq=antiprotists+kill+protists&pg=PA848|title=Alcamo's Fundamentals of Microbiology: Body systems edition|author1=Jeffrey C. Pommerville|author2=I. Edward Alcamo|date=15 January 2012|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-1-4496-0594-0|pages=848–}}</ref> Beyond "animal-like" (heterotrophic, including parasitic) protozoans, protists also include the "plant-like" (autotrophic) protophyta and the "fungi-like" saprophytic molds. In current biology, the concept of a "protist" and its three subdivisions has been replaced.<ref name=Scamardella1999>{{cite journal | vauthors = Scamardella JM | title = Not plants or animals: A brief history of the origin of Kingdoms Protozoa, Protista, and Protoctista | year = 1999 | journal = International Microbiology | volume = 2 | issue = 4 | pages = 207–221 | pmid = 10943416 | url = http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/182h/EukaryoteOrigins/NotPlantsNotAnimals-Scamardella.pdf | access-date = 2021-10-19 | archive-date = 2021-08-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210825134057/http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/182h/EukaryoteOrigins/NotPlantsNotAnimals-Scamardella.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>
==See also== * Amebicide ==References== {{reflist|35em}}
==External links== * {{MeshPharmaList|82000563}} {{Antimicrobial-stub}}
{{Major Drug Groups}} {{Agents against amoebozoa}}
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