In patients with vivax malaria, Ang-2, in addition to correlating with parasitemia, correlated with the adhesion receptors E-selectin (ρ = 0.40, P = 0.001) and ICAM-1 (ρ = 0.54, P<0.0001), and inversely with. Here, ANGPT2 is linked to Plasmodium vivax malaria.