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Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Research

Hemolysis after Oral Artemisinin Combination Therapy for Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

Florian KurthComments to Author , Tilman Lingscheid, Florian Steiner, Miriam S. Stegemann, Sabine Bélard, Nikolai Menner, Peter Pongratz, Johanna Kim, Horst von Bernuth, Beate Mayer, Georg Damm, Daniel Seehofer, Abdulgabar Salama, Norbert Suttorp, and Thomas Zoller
Author affiliations: Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (F. Kurth, T. Lingscheid, F. Steiner, M.S. Stegemann, S. Bélard, N. Menner, P. Pongratz, J. Kim, H. von Bernuth, B. Mayer, G. Damm, D. Seehofer, A. Salama, N. Suttorp, T. Zoller); Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (T. Zoller)

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Figure 1

Changes in hemoglobin levels (ΔHb) for patients with and without posttreatment hemolysis after treatment with oral artemisinin-based combination therapy for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. A) Day (d) 0 to d 14 (overall); B) d 0 to d 3 (treatment period); C) d 3 to d 14 (posttreatment period). Horizontal lines indicate median values, boxes indicate interquartile ranges, whiskers indicate ranges, and solid squares and circles indicate individual patient data points. The Mann-Whitney U

Figure 1. Changes in hemoglobin levels (ΔHb) for patients with and without posttreatment hemolysis after treatment with oral artemisinin-based combination therapy for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. A) Day (d) 0 to d 14 (overall); B) d 0 to d 3 (treatment period); C) d 3 to d 14 (posttreatment period). Horizontal lines indicate median values, boxes indicate interquartile ranges, whiskers indicate ranges, and solid squares and circles indicate individual patient data points. The Mann-Whitney U test was used for comparative analysis. *p<0.05; †p<0.01; NS, not significant.

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