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Table 3 Clearance of gametocyte following treatment of P. falciparum infections in children with mefloquine or artesunate-mefloquine

From: Effects of mefloquine and artesunate mefloquine on the emergence, clearance and sex ratio of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in malarious children

 

Drug treatment

 

Time to clearance of gametocyte (days)

Artesunate-mefloquine

Mefloquine

P. value

1

31

29

0.017

2

3

7

 

3

4

3

 

4

4

1

 

5

 

2

 

6

1

3

 

7

   

8

1

10

0.026*

11

 

1

 

14

 

1

 

>14

 

7

 

GCT

   

   Mean ± sem

1.8 ± 0.22

5.6 ± 0.95

0.001

   Range

1-8

1-35

 
  1. *Fisher exact test