Table 5. PCR-confirmed novel and recrudescent infections and time to recrudescence.

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Total
Total patients treated with MAS3	482	276	29	170	280	98	406	212	252	338	400	183	138	3264
Inconclusive (N)	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	2	4	3	0	15
Missing (N)	11	3	0	0	0	2	3	0	1	9	2	0	2	33
Novel infections (N)	11	5	0	1	7	13	29	12	13	23	30	25	8	177
Days to novel infection median, [range]	35 [21–64]	42 [35–63]	-	37	36 [28–42]	36.5 [20–49]	34.5 [14–63]	42 [21–63]	43.5 [14–63]	34 [13–61]	43 [14–70]	33 [21–63]	31.5 [14–50]	34.0 [13–45]
Recrudescent infections (N)	8	5	0	0	1	7	14	8	9	20	25	7	4	108
Days to recrudescence median, [range]	21 [14–41]	21 [16–36]	-	-	21	23 [15–33]	21 [14–42]	23.5 [21–42]	21 [7–28]	21 [15–42]	23 [14–42]	28 [21–42]	28 [23–34]	21 [7–42]