Table 3.

Statistical comparison of the efficacy of the four different antimalarial drug combinations.

	Artesunate-amodiaquine	Artesunate-mefloquine	Artemether-lumefantrine (four doses)	Artemether-lumefantrine (six doses)	Amodiaquine-sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine
Overall efficacy	97.5%	97.9%	82.8%	100%	98.8%
Artesunate-amodiaquine	0	NS	P < 0.001	NS	NS
Artesunate-mefloquine		0	p < 0.001	NS	NS
Artemether-lumefantrine (four doses)			0	p < 0.001	p = 0.001
Artemether-lumefantrine (six doses)				0	NS
Amodiaquine-sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine					0

NS: not significant.