Table 1.

Clinical characteristics on admission in the AS7 and MAS7 groups

Characteristic	AS7 n = 45	MAS7 n = 46	P
Age, yrs, mean	2.3 ± 1.3 [0.4-5.0]	2.3 ± 1.3 [0.3-4.7]	0.940
Male, %	57.8 (26/45)	50.0 (23/46)	0.530
Weight, kg, mean	10 ± 3 [5-15]	10 ± 3 [5-17]	0.893
Height, cm, mean	80 ± 11 [61-102]	81 ± 10 [56-106]	0.891
PR, bpm, mean	130 ± 15 [100-160]	132 ± 14 [110-160]	0.645
Temperature, °C, mean	37.8 ± 1.0 [36-40.2]	37.9 ± 1.0 [36-40.0]	0.483
Proportion febrile, %	55.6 (25/45)	56.5 (26/46)	1.000
Palpable spleen, %	45.5 (20/44)	38.6 (17/44)	0.666
Palpable liver, %	52.3 (23/44)	47.7 (21/44)	0.831
Early vomiting day0, %	17.8 (8/45)	28.3 (13/46)	0.321
Haematocrit, %	30.3 ± 5.2 [16.7-39.5]	29.2 ± 5.5 [15.2-39.8]	0.329
Geometric mean parasitaemia/uL	3,981 [145-109,648]	3,090 [16-97,724]	0.575
History fever, days, median	2 [1-10]	2 [0-10]	0.925

Data % (n) unless otherwise stated;

Proportions compared with Chi-square test (or Fisher' exact), means with Student's t-test and medians with Mann Whitney U test.