HDGFL2 and malaria: According to AMC standard procedure, screening for Malaria was done by a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and CareStart Malaria HRP2/PLDH (AccessBio Inc., Monmouth, USA, further referred to as CareStart) for the rapid qualitative determination of Plasmodium falciparum-specific histidine-rich protein 2 (HRP2) and pan-Plasmodium-specific parasite lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) performed on venous blood.