Figure 1.

Levels of young RBC increase during new onset malarial anaemia. RBC of different ages (subsets) presented as a proportion of total RBC count. Blood was obtained from children with malarial anaemia (open boxes) and from non-anaemic infected children (shaded boxes), and compared for differences in proportions of RBC at different ages. Each box represents the interquartile range (25-75%) of values, the whiskers represent 10% and 90% values, the middle line represents median value and the circles represent patients who fell outside the 10% and 90% range.