Volume 14, Number 6—June 2008
Dispatch
High Failure Rates of Melarsoprol for Sleeping Sickness, Democratic Republic of Congo
Jo Robays*
, Gaspard Nyamowala†‡, Claude Sese†, Victor Betu Ku Mesu Kande†, Pascal Lutumba†§, Wim Van der Veken¶, and Marleen Boelaert*
, Gaspard Nyamowala†‡, Claude Sese†, Victor Betu Ku Mesu Kande†, Pascal Lutumba†§, Wim Van der Veken¶, and Marleen Boelaert*Table 1
Melarsoprol relapse rates in second-stage human African trypanosomiasis patients, Equateur Nord Province, 2001–2003
| Year | Part of province |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern |
Central |
Southern |
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| No. treated | No. (%) relapsed | No. treated | No. (%) relapsed | No. treated | No. (%) relapsed | No. treated | No. (%) relapsed | ||||
| 2001 | 708 | 90 (12.7) | 1,154 | 284 (24.6) | 506 | 46 (9.1) | 2,368 | 420 (17.7) | |||
| 2002 | 572 | 56 (9.8) | 799 | 180 (22.5) | 135 | 36 (26.7) | 1,506 | 272 (18.1) | |||
| 2003 | 362 | 57 (15.7) | 570 | 171 (30.0) | 119 | 39 (32.8) | 1,051 | 267 (25.4) | |||
| Total | 1,642 | 203 (12.4) | 2,523 | 635 (25.2) | 760 | 121 (15.9) | 4,925 | 959 (19.5) | |||
