Therapeutic efficacy and safety of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artesunate-mefloquine in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in India

Table 4 Prevalence and incidence of gametocytes during the study (ITT population)

DP = dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine; A + M = artesunate-mefloquine.
¹Calculated, at a given time, as number of patients with gametocytes at that time divided by the number of patients having reached that time;
²Calculated, at a given time interval, as number of new patients with gametocytes in that interval divided by the number of patients having reached the end of that interval;
³Calculated as number of weeks in which blood slides were positive for gametocytes during the whole study (up to a maximum duration of 70 days) divided by the number of all follow-up weeks and expressed per 1,000 person-weeks.

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