Anti-malarial Drug Artecom

These Anti-malarial Drug Artecom of Tonghe, compound dihydroartemisinin i trade name: Artecomi is one of the two artemisinin-based anti-malarial compound drugs. Anti-malarial Drug Artecom is used in treatment of all kinds of malaria including chloroquine-resistant falciparum, vivax and malariae, etc.
Artecom overcomes the problem of high recrudescence rate of artemisin. If artemisin is used solely in malaria treatment, the druga s action will be rapid, but the effect would last short time. This problem had being an unsolved difficulty in malaria treatment till the dihydroartemisinin compound being innovated.
Artecom can reduce drug resistance and lower toxicity due to less artemisinin used.Its cure rate reaches 97% with recrudescence rate 3%.