parasitaemia

A parasitaemia of 1000 per cubic mm of finger blood smears is common among the people living in endemic areas like Selingue, and is well tolerated.

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However, the difference between the mean log (parasitaemia count + 1) of the two groups was statistically significant.

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Nevertheless, no case of complication was noticed among our patients in spite of very high parasitaemia cases (some were as high as 80,000 parasites per cubic mm).

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If we consider a parasitaemia of 1000 per cubic mm as "normal" in endemic areas during a period of high infection (raining season) as suggested by many authors

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More research should be done in order to improve the mode of administration of "Suma-Kala", and to increase its speed of clearance of malaria parasitaemia.

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No clinical complication was noticed during the follow up of the patients in spite of the high parasitaemia at the start of the treatment.

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Table 5: Proportions of patients with parasitaemia less than

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Furthermore, the difference between the biological parameters (proportion of patients with a parasitaemia less than 1000) on one hand, and between the clinical parameters (proportion of patients with fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, shivering) on the other hand, were not statistically significant.

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"Suma-Kala" was not as fast as chloroquine in clearing malaria parasitaemia.

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And also, the likely pattern of high parasitaemia in untreated malaria would be the occurrence of clinical malaria with a certain number of complications (for instance convulsions in children) and probably some cases of deafness.

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