Description

• Alpha, beta-arteether is a safe, effective and rapidly acting antimalarial.

• Shows a rapid parasite and fever clearance in patients with complicated P. falciparum malaria.

• Either beta-arteether or alpha/beta-arteether can be used in the treatment of acute falciparum malaria.

• An ethyl ether derivative of artemisinin which is an efficient schizontocidal drug in mild falciparum malaria.