Chemokine release is also associated with the malaria blood stage, but HZ alone did not induce the secretion of any of the chemokines investigated, CXCL8 (IL-8), CXCL9, CXCL10 (Figure 2E), CCL2 and CCL5 (Figure S2E, upper panel). This evidence concerns the gene CXCL10 and malaria.