GPT and schistosomiasis: However, when we separated data in the malarial parasite infected individuals from those infected with schistosomiasis and performed categorical analysis, malaria infection was only associated with significant group differences in platelet count (and not monocytes, eosinophils or ALT; Table 4 where we compared the first two columns [parasite−/CCA− vs parasite + /CCA−]), corroborating previous findings [10].