Baseline and clinical characteristics of the studied population.

*<p>these individuals were not infected at the moment of blood collection but recorded as having previously mild malaria; Controls were healthy individuals with no history of previous malaria; For some statistical analysis we have grouped clinical malaria patients, asymptomatic infected individuals and individuals with previous history of malaria (<i>any_malaria</i> group) and clinical malaria patients previous history of mild malaria (<i>clinical_malaria</i> group).