GSTM1 and malaria: Also, Kotepui and colleagues, (2014) demonstrated that patients infected with malaria had significantly reduced red blood cell count (RBCs), hemoglobin (Hb), platelet count, white blood cell count (leukocyte), neutrophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, and eosinophils, while corpuscular mean volume (MCV), corpuscular mean hemoglobin (MCH), corpuscular mean hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio -(NLR) and monocyte-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) were higher compared to patients not infected with malaria [11].