Fig 3.

Parasitemia in malaria blood-stage inoculated macaques. (A) Parasitemia was defined as number of P. coatneyi-infected red blood cells per the total number of uninfected red blood cells. Macaques were treated on days 11, 12, 13, and 15 after exposure to malaria. Parasitemia from day 1 to day 15 is graphed on a linear scale for both coinfected and malaria-only-infected macaques (■, malaria-only or schistosomiasis negative; ▲, coinfected or schistosomiasis positive). Parasitemia is not significantly different between the two groups of macaques (P = 0.38). (B) Parasites per microliter were defined as the total number of parasites in a microliter of blood; this was graphed from day 4 to day 15 on a log scale. The values were not significantly different between the groups (P = 0.39). (C) Hematocrit was determined weekly after exposure to malaria until malaria cure; there is no significant difference between coinfected and malaria-only-infected macaques (P = 0.16). (D) Hemoglobin values (in grams per deciliter) were determined for the same time period as the hematocrit, and there is no significant difference between the groups (P = 0.17).