Table 1. Clinical details of patients.

Diagnosis	Case no.	Year of admission	Agea	HIV status	Time to deathb	Admission parasitaemiac	Final parasitaemiac
CEREBRAL MALARIA
CM2	28	1999	61	-	00:30	424,000	424,000
	34	1999	70	-	02:45	74,319	74,319
	61	2002	26	-	04:15	42,027	42,027
	62	2002	10	-	01:10	1,056,607	1,056,607
	63	2002	79	-	28:10	8,212	400
	64	2002	60	+	07:00	28,842	28,842
	68	2003	156	+	15:25	20,080	44,680
	75	2003	144	+	07:50	215,300	36,250
	78	2003	15	-	02:00	637,000	637,000
	82	2004	31	-	56:30	197,820	0
	83	2004	26	-	13:45	22,000	6,000
mean			61.6		12:40	247,837	213,648
st dev			49.4		16:42	334,794	348,042
CM1	37	1999	6	+	38:00	616,400	10,000
	38	1999	84	-	35:40	782,320	5,474
	74	2003	103	+	05:25	204,000	204,000
	79	2003	79	+	04:40	34,400	34,400
	84	2004	106	+	21:07	201,829	834
mean			75.6		20:58	367,790	50,942
st dev			40.6		15:55	315,896	86,537
PARASITAEMIC CONTROL
PC
d	31	1999	39	+	22:00	159,434	188,432
d	45	2000	28	-	23:25	100,519	197
e	77	2003	7	-	04:05	66,844	66,844
f	80	2004	63	-	12:00	23,500	63,200
mean			34.3		15:22	87,574	79,668
st dev			23.3		09:05	57,349	78,700

^amonths,

^bhours:minutes,

^cparasites/l in peripheral blood,

^dpneumonia (Streptococcus),

^emalaria parasitaemic with non-malarial cause of death,

^fmeningoencephalitis.