Table 1.

Demographic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of patients at baseline

Characteristics	AL (n = 155)	DHA–PQ (n = 155)	p values
Age group, years
% < 5 years of age	21	23	0.6
% 5–53 years of age	79	77
Gender categories
% of female	47	46	0.6
% of male	53	54
% of fever	67	69	0.7
% of anemia	42.7	41.1	0.7
Median of parasitemia (IQR 25th and 75th percentiles) Number of trophozoite/μl of blood	24,325 (9450–45,775)	21,200 (9280–38,875)	0.2