Table 2 Site wise summary of patient enrolment and follow up status and treatment result with and without PCR correction
Variables | Study Sites | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MP | CG | MH | OD | TOTAL | |
No. of malaria positive cases Screened | 251 | 987 | 87 | 506 | 1831 |
No. enrolled | 105 | 117 | 82 | 72 | 376 |
Withdrawal | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 12 |
Loss to follow-up | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
Without PCR correction | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Early treatment failure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Late clinical failure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Late parasitological failure | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Adequate clinical and parasitological response (%) | 103 (100) | 104 (96.3) | 82 (100) | 63 (100) | 352 (98.9) |
With PCR correction | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Early treatment Failure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Late clinical failure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Late parasitological failure | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Adequate clinical and parasitological response (%) | 103 (100) | 104(98.1) | 82 (100) | 63 (100) | 352 (99.4) |
Pf recrudescence | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pf re-infection | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mixed with Pf recrudescence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
PCR negative (unknown) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |