Table 1.

Profile of children on therapeutic in the study population

	Artemether–lumefantrine
Characteristics	n = 76
Male n (%)	43 (56.6%)
Female n (%)	33 (43.4%)
Median age in months (males)	30
Age range in months (males)	(12–56)
Median age in months (females)	30
Age range in months (females)	(15–58)
Temperature mean on day 0	38.1 °C s.d. ± 1.1
Temperature mean on day 3	36.5 °C s.d. ± 0.6
Parasitaemia (per μl) on day 0 geometric mean and s.d. respectively (95% CI 797.8–6220.7)	120 595.0 and 163 395.1
Day 2 mean and s.d.	24 and 170.9 (95% CI 15.0–63.3)
Range of parasites in the study sample	880–832 000