IFNG and malaria: Phenotypic characterization of the in vitro IFNγ response to whole blood-stage parasites (PfRBC) in malaria-naive donors has variously implicated ‘innate’ natural killer (NK) cells [28], [29], [30], ‘semi-innate’ γδT cells [31], [32] (including NK-like γδT cells [33]) and ‘adaptive’ αβT cells [32], [34], [35].