Figure 2

Effect of gum arabic treatment on parasitaemia of Plasmodium berghei -infected mice. A: Original histograms of parasitaemia-dependent Syto 16 fluorescence in untreated animals (upper panels) and animals treated from 10 days before infection until the day they survived with 10% gum arabic in drinking water (lower panels) 10 (left panels) and 20 (right panels) days after infection with P. berghei. B: Arithmetic means ± SEM of parasitaemia in mice without treatment (open circles, n = 19) or with 10% gum arabic in drinking water (closed circles, n = 17) as a function of days after infection with P. berghei. * (p ≤ 0.05) indicates significant difference from untreated animals.