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Table 2 Outcome at day 28 and 42 for all patients

From: Open-label trial with artemether-lumefantrine against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria three years after its broad introduction in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia

Treatment outcome

Day 28

Day 42

Lost to follow-up (%)

31/348 (8.9)

32/348 (9.2)

Inability to tolerate oral treatment1 (%)

2/348 (0.6)

2/348 (0.6)

Early treatment failure (%)

0

0

Late treatment failure (%)

3/348 (0.9)

28/348 (8.0)

Late clinical failure (%)

3/348 (0.9)

16/348 (4.6)

Late parasitological failure

0

12/348 (3.4)

ACPR

312/348 (89.7)

286/348 (82.2)

Infection with different species (%)

0

0

New infection P. falciparum (%)

1/348 (0.3)

12/348 (3.4)

Recrudescences (%)

2/348 (0.6)

16/348 (4.6)

Cure rate per protocol, PCR-uncorrected (%, 95% CI)

312/315 (99.1, 98.0-100.0)

286/314 (91.1, 87.9-94.3)

Cure rate per protocol, PCR-corrected (%, 95% CI)

312/314 (99.4, 98.5-100.0)

286/302 (94.7, 92.2-97.2)

Cure rate intention-to-treat, PCR-uncorrected (%, 95% CI)

312/348 (89.7, 86.4-92.9)

286/348 (82.2, 78.1-86.2)

Cure rate intention-to-treat, PCR-corrected (%, 95% CI)

312/347 (89.9, 86.7-93.1)

286/336 (85.1, 81.3-88.9)

  1. 1 Those patients defined as “adverse event requiring change in anti-malarial therapy prior to completion of full dose of study drug”. They were included in the intention-to-treat analysis but excluded from the per-protocol analysis.