Table 6

Chloroquine efficacy in young children of rural Burkina Faso in intervention and control communities


Baseline survey
Baseline survey
Follow-up survey
Follow-up survey
p-value*


Intervention (n = 68)
Control (n = 46)
Intervention (n = 88)
Control (n = 93)


ETF (%)
8 (12)
3 (7)
13 (15)
12 (13)
0.88
LCF (%)
4 (6)
5 (11)
4 (5)
13 (14)
0.04
LPF (%)
11 (16)
7 (15)
25 (28)
27 (29)
0.99
ACPR (%)
45 (66)
31 (67)
46 (52)
41 (44)
0.30

ETF = Early Treatment Failure; LCF = Late Clinical Failure; LPF = Late Parasitological Failure; ACPR = Adequate Clinical and Parasitological response.

*Comparison of proportions at follow-up survey (Fisher exact test)

Kouyaté et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:50   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-50