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Table 4 Treatment outcome during 28 days follow up period

From: Efficacy of artemether–lumefantrine therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Southwestern Ethiopia

Treatment outcome

N (%)

Treatment failure

 Late clinical failure

1 (1.1)

 Late parasitological failure

4 (4.5)

Adequate clinical and parasitological response

84 (94.4)

 28 days PCR uncorrected cure rate

84 (94.4)

 28 days PCR corrected cure rate

87 (97.8)

Re-infection

 Recurrent malaria by P. vivax

1 (1.1)

 Recurrent malaria by P. falciparum

2 (2.2)

Recrudescence

2 (2.2)