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Table 2 PCR uncorrected and corrected 28 days cure rate of AL as well as early and late treatment failures

From: Therapeutic efficacy of artemether–lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Enfranze, north-west Ethiopia

Outcome

≤5 years (no = 16)

>5 years (no = 64)

Total (no = 80)

ETF

0

2 (3.1%)

2 (2.5%)

LCF

1 (6.25%)

0

1 (1.25%)

LPF

1 (6.25%)

2 (3.1%)

3 (3.75%)

ACPR

14 (87.5%)

60 (93.75%)

74 (92.5%)

Cure rate (uncorrected)

14 (87.5%)

60 (93.75%)

74 (92.5%)

Cure rate (PCR-corrected)

14 (87.5%)

62 (96.9%)

76 (95%)

  1. ETF early treatment failure, LCF late clinical failure, LPF late parasitological failure, ACPR adequate clinical and parasitological response.