Fig. 4

Relationship between asymptomatic malaria and nutrition, A boxplots of the four malnutrition categories (normal, n = 195; mild, n = 122; moderate, n = 41; severe, n = 26) showing lower parasitaemia in the three malnourished categories compared to the normal group; aparasitaemic individuals (< 20 parasites per microlitre, n = 304) were excluded from this illustration, B bar chart of parasite positives’ proportions with 95% confidence intervals in the malnutrition categories