The proportion of patients (%; vertical axis) in whom the median parasitemia or median fever before gametocytes were first detected was higher than the median after, in P. falciparum (FAL), P. vivax (VIV), P. malariae (MAL), and P. ovale (OVA) infections, induced by trophozoites (troph) or sporozoites (sporo), in the N2 or N2 + N3 patients (see text).