Figure 3.

Pure tone average 0,5–3 kHz. Plot of means +/- 1 standard deviation of the pure tone average at 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 kHz for day 0, 7, 28 and 90 stratified by therapy group (solid line: Quinine, dashed line: Atovaquone/proguanil, dotted line: Artemether/lumefantrine). As depicted in the graph a slight improvement of PTA was found during the first 28 days after treatment in the Atovaquone/proguanil and Artemether/lumefantrine group unlike the Quinine group, which experienced a marked but transient hearing loss measured on day 7. On day 90, the differences of means were larger than those on day 28, which can be explained as an effect of the long-term observation. No permanent hearing loss in either group occurred. The results presented in the graph are strongly confirmed by multivariate analysis. Measuring unit of y-axis is dB nHL.