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Table 5 Adverse events (occurring after baseline but before recurrence of parasitaemia in > 2% of children) suspected by investigators to be related to study medication by body weight group

From: Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine in the treatment of acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Nigerian infants and children

Adverse Events

n (%)

 

BWG1

5-<10 kg

(N = 50)

BWG2

10-<15 kg

(N = 37)

BWG3

15-<25 kg

(N = 16)

Total

5-<25 kg

(N = 103)

At least one adverse event

30 (60.0)

16 (43.2)

6 (37.5)

52 (50.5)

Anaemia

7 (14.0)

6 (16.2)

1 (6.3)

14 (13.6)

Diarrhoea

5 (10.0)

5 (13.5)

1 (6.3)

11 (10.7)

Clonus

7 (14.0)

5 (13.5)

1 (6.3)

13 (12.6)

Vomiting

7 (14.0)

0 (-)

4 (25.0)

11 (10.7)

Rashes

4 (8.0)

3 (8.1)

0 (-)

7 (6.8)

Hyperreflexia

1 (2.0)

2 (5.4)

1 (6.3)

4 (3.9)

Cough

2 (4.0)

1 (2.7)

0 (-)

3 (2.9)