In the same way, NK and γδT lymphocytes produce IFNγ and TNFα in malaria patients (D’Ombrain et al., 2007; Horowitz et al., 2010; Stanisic et al., 2014), while polymorphisms within the natural killer cell complex modulate mouse cerebral malaria (Hansen et al., 2014). This evidence concerns the gene TNF and cerebral malaria.