IFNG and malaria: During the blood stage of malaria, the circulating monocytes are pivotal to control parasitemia by phagocytose merozoite and asexual infected RBCs (iRBCs), as well as by increased inflammatory cytokines (IFN-α, IFN-γ, TNF-α, and IL-6) and chemokines (CCL2, CCL3, CCL4, and CXCL10)  (Huang et al., 2014; Colborn et al., 2015; Bansal et al., 2016; Hommel et al., 2018).