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. 2018 Oct 4;15(10):e1002677. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002677

Correction: Comparison of artemether-lumefantrine and chloroquine with and without primaquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax infection in Ethiopia: A randomized controlled trial

Tesfay Abreha, Jimee Hwang, Kamala Thriemer, Yehualashet Tadesse, Samuel Girma, Zenebe Melaku, Ashenafi Assef, Moges Kassa, Mark D Chatfield, Keren Z Landman, Stella M Chenet, Naomi W Lucchi, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Zhiyong Zhou, Ya Ping Shi, S Patrick Kachur, Daddi Jima, Amha Kebede, Hiwot Solomon, Addis Mekasha, Bereket Hailegiorgis Alemayehu, Joseph L Malone, Gunewardena Dissanayake, Hiwot Teka, Sarah Auburn, Lorenz von Seidlein, Ric N Price
PMCID: PMC6171818  PMID: 30286081

The numbers in the second paragraph in the section entitled, “Partial primaquine dose and unsupervised primaquine treatment” are incorrect owing to a transcription error in the final preparation of the paper.

The paragraph should read: “For all subsequent recurrences, only the first dose of the antimalarial drugs was supervised. The risk of recurrence after 6 mo of follow-up between the primary and secondary treatments did not differ significantly for patients in either the CQ arm (HR = 1.2 [95% CI 0.8–1.84], p = 0.5) or the AL arm (HR = 0.8 [95% CI 0.5–1.3], p = 0.4). However, patients were at significantly greater risk of recurrent P. vivax after the unsupervised PQ retreatment than after the partially supervised initial PQ treatment: 36.8% (95%CI 16.6%–68.3%) versus 14.7% (95% CI 8.6%–24.6%) in patients in the CQ+PQ arm (HR = 3.9 [95% CI 1.3–11.4], p = 0.014) and 48.1% (95%CI 26.5%–75.6%) versus 17.5% (95%CI 10.7%–27.8%) in patients in the AL+PQ arm (HR = 3.5 [95% CI 1.4–8.9], p = 0.008) (S2 Fig).”

Reference

  • 1.Abreha T, Hwang J, Thriemer K, Tadesse Y, Girma S, Melaku Z, et al. (2017) Comparison of artemether-lumefantrine and chloroquine with and without primaquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax infection in Ethiopia: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS Med 14(5): e1002299 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002299 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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