Table 4

Life Table representation of cumulative incidence of adjusted therapeutic failure attributable to drug resistance among subjects treated with chloroquine (CQ) and CQ + sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) with msp-2 genotyping to distinguish recrudescence from reinfection

CQ
CQ+SP

D
N
I
W
IR
CIF
D
N
I
W
IR
CIF

0
26
0
0
0.00
0.00
0
87
0
0
0.00
0.00
2
26
0
0
0.00
0.00
2
87
0
2
0.00
0.00
4
26
0
0
0.00
0.00
4
85
1
1
0.01
0.01
7
26
0
0
0.00
0.00
7
83
0
0
0.00
0.01
11
26
1
0
0.04
0.04
11
83
0
0
0.00
0.01
14
25
1
1
0.04
0.08
14
83
0
0
0.00
0.01
18
23
1
1
0.04
0.12
18
83
0
2
0.00
0.01
21
21
1
2
0.05
0.16
21
81
0
1
0.00
0.01
28
18
3
0
0.17
0.30
28
80
0
2
0.00
0.01

N = sample at risk of therapeutic failure at start of interval

i = the number of cases of therapeutic failure during the interval

w = the number of subjects withdrawn from the test during the interval due to exclusion from analysis, loss to follow-up after latest blood smear, intercurrent infection with another plasmodia species, or reinfection by different genotype P. falciparum or relapse/reinfection by P. vivax based on day of recurrent parasitemia CQ +DCQ concentrations

IR = risk of therapeutic failure in the interval, calculated as i/(N-w/2)

CIF = cumulative incidence of therapeutic failure, calculated as 1-[(1-IRn)(1-CIFn-1)], where IRn is the IR in the current interval and CIFn-1 is the cumulative incidence up to the previous interval

Lederman et al. Malaria Journal 2006 5:108   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-5-108