Table 2 Malaria treatment prescribed for patients with clinically diagnosed malaria at day 0 (n = 294; treatment regime not known for 18 individuals). SP = sulfadoxine pyrimethamine.
From: Household cost of malaria overdiagnosis in rural Mozambique
Treatment Regime | Total | Adult | Child | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Microscopy positive | Microscopy negative | Microscopy positive | Microscopy negative | ||
No antimalarial | 112 | 17 (21.8%) | 7 (25%) | 43 (32.3%) | 35 (63.6%) |
Antimalarial | 192 | 61 (78.2%) | 21 (75%) | 90 (67.7%) | 20 (36.4%) |
Amodiaquine/SP | 133 | 44 | 20 | 57 | 12 |
Chloroquine | 12 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Quinine | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Amodiaquine alone | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
SP alone | 37 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 6 |
Total | 294 | 78 | 28 | 133 | 55 |