Enrollees’ baseline characteristics and symptoms at presentation
fever, malaria, parasitaemia, headache, rigors, febrile, chills
MALARIA, MAY, LOSS OF APPETITE
The study was conducted between May and December 2019 and between July and December 2020. A total of 1204 febrile children suspected of having malaria were screened for malaria parasitaemia during the study period; 550 (45.7%) had patent parasitaemia, with 172 eligible patients randomly assigned to PA (n = 85) and to AL (n = 87). Figure Study design and patient flow among children from southwest Nigeria with acute uncomplicated malaria treated with artemether–lumefantrine or pyronaridine–artesunateThe four most common symptoms at presentation were fever (100%), headache (69.8%), chills and rigors (62.6%), and loss of appetite (57.2%) (Table Distribution of children with acute uncomplicated malaria according to symptoms other than fever at presentation by treatment groups