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. 2005 Oct 19;2005(4):CD004529. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004529.pub2

Bouchaud 2000.

Methods Randomized controlled trial
Length of follow up: 35 d
Generation of allocation sequence: unclear
Allocation concealment: unclear
Blinding: none
Inclusion of all randomized participants in the final analysis: 41 analysed/48 randomized (85%)
Participants Number enrolled: 48
Age range: 15 to 65 years
Gender: male and female
Inclusion criteria: > 16 years old; had malaria from a short stay in an endemic country; non‐immune individual; parasitaemia between 1000 and 100,000 parasites/µL
Exclusion criteria: severe malaria; prolonged QTc interval (above 0.44 s); presence of mixed infections with other Plasmodium species; presence of concomitant disease; inability to take oral treatment; history of syncope; pregnancy; breastfeeding mother; weighed < 40 kg; resided in an endemic area for the previous year
Interventions 1. Atovaquone‐proguanil (4 x 250 mg atovaquone and 4 x 100 mg proguanil as single daily dose for 3 d)
 2. Halofantrine (total of 1500 mg in 3 doses of 500 mg 6 h apart)
Outcomes 1. 28‐d cure rate
 2. Parasite clearance time
 3. Fever clearance
Notes Location: France
Drug resistance: difficult to say as malaria was imported