Retention of uninfected red blood cells causing congestive splenomegaly is the major mechanism of anemia in malaria.

When categorizing spleens by Plasmodium infection, this relationship was highly significant in Pf (r = 1.0, p = .003, n = 6) but not apparent in Pv infection ( n = 4, Figure 3C ).

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