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Lumefantrine

Lumefantrine (or benflumetol) is an antimalarial drug.

The term “co-artemether” is sometimes used to describe the administration of lumefantrine with artemether.[1]

References

  1. Toovey S, Jamieson A, Nettleton G (2003). “Successful co-artemether (artemether-lumefantrine) clearance of falciparum malaria in a patient with severe cholera in Mozambique”. Travel medicine and infectious disease. 1 (3): 177–9. doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2003.09.002. PMID 17291911.

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