Appendix 1—figure 2. Comparison of the marginal distributions of platelet counts between Asian adults and children with severe malaria and African children with severe malaria.

FEAST: 121 severely ill Ugandan children with PfHRP2 >1000 ng/mL (Maitland et al., 2011). Vietnamese adults: 930 adults from two large randomised trials in severe malaria (Phu et al., 2010; Hien et al., 1996). Bangladesh/Thailand: 653 adults and children from observational studies of severe malaria (Leopold et al., 2019). The bottom-left qqplot compares the white counts from the children in the FEAST study with the combined dataset from Vietnam and Bangladesh/Thailand.