Trichinella zimbabwensis (Tz) has been successfully used in laboratory animal model experiments for TDHs (Onkoba, Chimbari & Mukaratirwa, 2015) and in determining chemokine, cytokine and haematological profiles in Sprague-Dawley rats co-infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA (Murambiwa et al., 2020) and the authors propose extending the use of this parasite to determine the blood glucose, insulin and glycogen profiles during co-infection with P. berghei ANKA (Pb) to fully understand the pathophysiological implications of co-infection. The gene discussed is INS; the disease is coinfection.