Benflumetol and artemether are the widely used antimalarial drugs currently in clinical , they are the main ingredients of the well-known anti-malarial drugs called Compound artemether of Novartis ,which can kill plasmodia asexual, insecticidal rate is high, the cure rate is about 95%, but it is invalid in the pre-erythrocytic stage and gametophyte .
It is mainly used for the treatment of falciparum malaria in clinical, especially for the chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria treatment.
Lumefantrine is a derivative of halofantrine that has been reported to exhibit antimalarial activity when combined with artemether in the treatment of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparium . No evidence of cardiotoxicity has been reported with this combination, which may offer promise for successful treatment of resistant organisms.
