Table 2.

Response to liposomal amphotericin B in 91 patients

	Single dose	Five dose
Regimen	5 mg/kg×1	1 mg/kg/day×5
No of participants	46	45
No completing treatment	46	45
No in whom treatment failed	1	1
No with apparent cure*	45	44
No with relapses	3	2
No with definitive cure†	42	42
Rate of cure (%, 95% CI)‡	91 (79 to 98)	93 (82 to 99)

^*Evaluated 14 days after last treatment (day 15 in single dose group and day 19 in five dose group). 

^†Evaluated 6 months after treatment in all patients with apparent cure. 

^‡Cure rates were not significantly different between the groups (95% confidence interval −13.6% to 20.9%, P=1.0, Fisher exact test).