While we detected an upregulation of various antioxidant response genes in P. vivax-infected hepatocytes on day 5 post-infection (i.e. PTGR1, SOD1, GPX2, TXNRD1), and even validate one of these markers (AKR1B10) using IFA, an opposite transcriptional response is observed in the recently published study. Here, GPX2 is linked to infection.