Figure 4

The distribution of mean parasitaemia for carriers of the TLR9 haplotypes. The mean parasite load for the haplotypes are TTAG, CTGA, TCGG, CCGG and TCGA are 6,178; 15,992; 21,034; 15,631; 12,714 parasite/μl of blood. The *TTAG haplotype was significantly associated with lower parasitaemia compared with the non-TTAG haplotype (6,178 vs. 20,114 parasite/μl of blood, p = 0.007). Statistical analysis was performed using ANOVA and student’s t-test. P value of <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.