Fig. 5
From: Elevated IL-17 levels in semi-immune anaemic mice infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA
Effect of parasitaemia on minimum Hb within the semi-immune mice strains. Minimum Hb is the Hb at which low Hb is obtained during the profile of malaria anaemia in the semi-immune mice strains (Fig. 3). Parasite level at which the minimum Hb was attained was noted. The impact of parasite density on respective minimum Hb (Hbm) was compared hence the Hbm/parasitaemia. These are values of one experiment. Similar observations were made in a repeat experiment. F1 (11), Balb/c (5) and CBA (4). Middle lines within the box are median values while whiskers refers to the minimum and maximum values. One way ANOVA was used to analyse data with Tukey post-test, where p values for F1 vs. Balb/c (p = 0.562), F1 vs. CBA (p = 0.009) and Balb/c vs. CBA (p = 0.114)