TABLE 1.

Baseline characteristics of the two study groups of patients

Characteristic	Value for the following study group:
	DP	DP-SLDPQ
No. of patients enrolled	53	56
No. of recrudescent patients	18	10
No. of males, no. of females	44, 9	44, 12
Mean (SD) age (yr)	25 (16)	26 (14)
No. of patients G6PDa deficient, no. of patients G6PD normal	3, 50	6, 50
No. of gametocyte-positive slides	14	7
Mean (SD, range) no. of gametocytes/μl	64 (250, 0–1,432)	40 (149, 0–787)
No. of patients positive for gametocytes by TaqMan RT-PCR	26	21
Hemoglobin concn (g/dl)	12.63	13.19
No. of patients with anemiab/total no. tested	10/51	9/56

^aG6PD, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase.

^bAnemia was considered a hemoglobin concentration of <11 g/dl.