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Guthmann 2004 AGO (Continued)<br />

All doses supervized<br />

Outcomes 1. Recurrent parasitaemia at day 28, PCR adjusted and unadjusted<br />

2. Prevalence of anaemia at days 0 and 28<br />

3. Early vomiting<br />

Not included in the review:<br />

1. Gametocytes on days 0 and 28<br />

Notes Country: Angola<br />

Setting: Health centre<br />

Transmission: High transmission, mesoendemic<br />

Resistance: CQ and SP resistance<br />

Dates: Apr 2004 to Jul 2004<br />

Funding: Médecins sans Frontières, <strong>The</strong> American Society of Tropical Medicine and<br />

Hygiene (ASTMH) and the American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine<br />

and Travelers’ Health (ACCTMTH)<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Unclear Described as ’randomized’ but no other details<br />

Allocation concealment? No None described<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

No Blinding not mentioned. 100 malaria films<br />

were checked by an independent laboratory<br />

Yes Losses to follow up low in both groups<br />

(6.2% AL6 vs 7.2% AS+AQ)<br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes <strong>The</strong> WHO recommends 42 days follow up<br />

in studies of AL6. Day 28 outcomes may<br />

under estimate treatment failure with AL6.<br />

Free of other bias? Yes No other sources of bias identified<br />

Hamour 2003 SDN<br />

Methods Trial design: An open label randomized controlled trial<br />

Follow up: Reassessed clinically and parasitologically on days 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 21, and<br />

28<br />

Adverse event monitoring: Not described<br />

Participants Number: 161 randomized<br />

Inclusion criteria: Age 6 to 59 months, weight > 5 kg, axillary temp > 37.5 ºC, P.<br />

falciparum mono-infection 2000 to 200,000/µml, in<strong>for</strong>med consent<br />

Exclusion criteria: Signs of severe malaria, concomitant febrile conditions except mild<br />

<strong>Artemisinin</strong>-<strong>based</strong> <strong>combination</strong> <strong>therapy</strong> <strong>for</strong> treating uncomplicated malaria (Review)<br />

Copyright © 2009 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Cochrane</strong> Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<br />

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