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. 2014 Jul 3;210(12):2001–2008. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiu358

Table 1.

Prevalence of pfcrt and pfmdr1 Haplotypes Before and After Treatment With Artemether-Lumefantrine or Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine

Gene Odds Ratio: Occurrence on Day 3 vs Baseline (95% CI) Directional Selection Within-Hosta
LOSS (Frequency) GAIN (Frequency) P Value
pfcrt codons 72-76CVMNK
 AL (N = 43 143) 10.32 (3.42–41.4) P < .001 1 15 P < .001 (N = 43)
 DP (N = 30 135) 7.64 (2.17–40.8) P < .001 1 9 P = .0114 (N = 30)
 Combined ACT (N = 73 278) 8.90 (3.88–23.69) P < .001 2 24 P < .001 (N = 73)
pfmdr1 codons 86, 184, 1246 NFD
 AL (N = 26 101) 3.15 (1.19–8.60) P = .001 1 9 P = .0114 (N = 22)
 DP (N = 15 104) 8.52 (1.76–80.3) P = .002 1 6 P = .0588 (N = 15)
 Combined ACT (N = 42 206) 3.59 (1.68–7.95) P < .001 2 15 P = .0016 (N = 38)

Abbreviations: ACT, artemisinin-based combination therapy; AL, artemether-lumefantrine; DP, dihydro-artemisinin-piperaquine.

a Change in genotype in the same patient between day 0 and day 3 is scored as loss or gain; significance tested using McNemar's test of asymmetry.