Correlations of parasitaemia with clinical and laboratory variables.

Clinical and laboratory variables with significant associations with parasitaemia are shown. Spearman's rank correlation ‘rs’ value is given; * p<0.05, ** p<0.01 and *** p<0.001; ‘–’ denotes inverse associations and ns  =  no significant correlation. Variables that are not shown displayed no correlation with parasitaemia in all three species of infection. All variables and total number of patients in each group per variable are listed in Table S1.