Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the study population

	ASMQ	CQ	AL
N of patients	60	58	57
Male n (%)	35 (58)	46 (79)	39 (68)
Weight in kg	70 (11)	73 (10)	73 (10)
Haemoglobin in g/dL	13.4 (1.8)	14.0 (3)	13.6 (2)
Parasitaemia/μLa	2145.56 [258–13,335]	2155.78 [285–17,685]	2444.71 [270–19,815]
Age in years	39.0 (11)	42.1 (10.5)	38.7 (11)

Data represent n (%) and means and (SD)

^aParasitaemia was expressed by geometric mean and [min–max]