A high expression of A- and B-type var genes and an association of DC4, -8, and -13 with disease severity has been reported for malaria cases imported to France (Argy et al., 2017), and parasites from severe Indian adults show an elevated expression of DC6, -8 (Bernabeu et al., 2016), and DC13 (Subudhi et al., 2015). Here, CMC2 is linked to malaria.