Table 3.
Study name | Design, country | Sample size | Reasons for exclusion |
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Nambozi et al., 2011 [36] | RCT, Zambia | 304 | The study has been reported as part of the larger multicentric study of Bassat et al., 2009, already included in the review |
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Arinaitwe et al., 2009 [15] | RCT, Uganda | 351 | Some of the study participants were infected with other species of Plasmodium. The reviewer was only interested in primary studies in which only P. falciparum infections were treated. |
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Verret et al., 2011 [37] | RCT, Uganda | 292 | This study is a subanalysis of the main study of Arinaitwe et al., 2009, which was also excluded from the review with reasons as the above. |
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Katrak et al., 2009 [38] | RCT, Uganda | 246 | There was no data on treatment failure; only adverse events were presented. The main aim of the study was to investigate safety of study drugs among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children, which is not relevant for this review. |