Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the prospectively enrolled patients according to recurrence

Variable	No recurrence (n = 92)	Recurrence (n = 10)	P value
Age, years (mean ± SD)	43.2 ± 17.5	46.0 ± 12.1	0.30
Male sex (%)	78.0	50.0	0.09
Body weight, kg (mean ± SD)	73.3 ± 12.3	73.8 ± 16.0	0.97
Initial parasitaemia, /µl (mean ± SD)	5,460.0 ± 7,403.1	6,568.0 ± 7,637.0	0.40
< 2000/µl (%)	41.0	100
2000–20,000/µl (%)	56.4	0
> 20,000/µl (%)	2.6	0