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Volume 14, Number 6—June 2008
Dispatch

High Failure Rates of Melarsoprol for Sleeping Sickness, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jo Robays*Comments to Author , Gaspard Nyamowala†‡, Claude Sese†, Victor Betu Ku Mesu Kande†, Pascal Lutumba†§, Wim Van der Veken¶, and Marleen Boelaert*
Author affiliations: *Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; †Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; ‡Medische Missie Samenwerking Organisation, Kinshasa; §University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa; ¶Belgian Technical Cooperation, Kinshasa;

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Table 2

Characteristics of 959 patients who experienced relapse after treatment 
with melarsoprol, Equateur Nord Province, 2001–2003

Characteristic No. (%)
Sex
M 433 (45.2)
F
526 (54.8)
Age
>1–11mo 1 (0.1)
12–59 mo 13 (1.4)
5–59 y 936 (97.6)
>60 y
9 (0.9)
Stage of disease
First 46 (4.8)
Second 782 (81.5)
Unknown
131 (13.7)
Parasites found 259 (27.0)

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