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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Infect Dis. 2009 Mar 1;199(5):758–765. doi: 10.1086/596741

Table 2.

Parasite and Host Factors Associated with Treatment Failure.

Risk factor Model not including AP Model including AP

HR (95% CI) p-value HR (95% CI) p-value
Calendar time (per year) 2.9 (1.5–5.4) 0.001 1.5 (0.7–3.4) 0.3
Parasite SNPs
dhfr/dhps, +/− pfmdr1 1.0 - 1.0 -
 + dhfr/dhps, − pfmdr1 2.8 (0.7–11.6) 0.16 3.1 (0.7–12.5) 0.12
+ dhfr/dhps, + pfmdr1 7.9 (1.8–35.3) 0.007 7.7 (1.8–33.5) 0.006
Parasite density > 100,000/μl 2.2 (0.9–5.5) 0.08 1.9 (0.7–4.8) 0.18
Living ≤ 50m from swamp 0.3 (0.1–0.8) 0.01 0.3 (0.1–0.8) 0.01
Age at enrollment (per 5 years) 0.6 (0.3–1.2) 0.15 0.7 (0.4–1.4) 0.3
AP observed in the last 180 days - - 0.06 (0.01–0.5) 0.006

NOTE. AP, asymptomatic parasitemia; HR, hazard ratio; + dhfr/dhps, dhfr 51I+59R+108N & dhps 437G+540E; + pfmdr1, pfmdr1 86N+184F.

Associations performed using Cox proportional hazards with inference accounting for repeated measures.