Acute phase protein levels, parasitaemia and frequency of haptoglobin polymorphisms in Gabonese children.

Continuous data are shown as median value [inter-quartile range] or mean (standard deviation) and categorical data are n (%). Note for C-reactive protein, albumin and plasmodium prevalence n = 550.1C-reactive protein >10 µg/mL was the cut-off used to define an acute phase response [17].2The cut off value for hypohaptoglobinaemia is [29].3The cut off value for low albumin is [30].4The frequency of species in this population has been published previously [21].