MBL2 and malaria: The 100 patients with severe malaria both had significantly more frequently low MBL levels, defined as <200 ng/mL (0.35 versus 0.19, P = 0.02) and a higher frequency of mutant alleles at codons 54 and 57 (0.45 versus 0.31, P = 0.04) compared to 100 children with mild malaria.