Malaria drives unique regulatory responses across multiple immune cells during human infection

To investigate malaria driven transcriptional changes in specific immune cell subsets, we sorted live PBMCs from 6 malaria infected donors (day 0), and two subsequent time points after drug treatment (day 7 and 28), along with PBMCs from 2 healthy controls. We performed scRNAseq of these cells, and used clustering and sub-clustering to identify specific immune cell subsets. Differential gene analysis between day 0 and day 28 was performed for each cell cluster and sub-cluster. Key transcriptional changes were confirmed at the protein level with additional donor samples.