SUMF2 and parasitic infectious disease: In vitro culture is not a good model for this because it is difficult to separate immature from mature gametocytes, therefore we directly evaluated the expression profile of Pfgdv1 and the Pfge genes in a microarray analysis of samples obtained from 20 patients on the Thailand Myanmar border with a range of different gametocytemias and asexual parasitemias (Fig. 5 and Table S2).