Parasitaemia estimation and prediction of hepatocellular dysfunction among Ghanaian children with acute malaria using haemoglobin levels.

Malaria is an important global health disease which puts individuals, particularly children, at a greater risk of mortality. is distinguished from the rest of the by its high level of parasitaemia. They infect liver cells (hepatocytes), and multiply into merozoites and rupture liver cells in the process, prior to infection of red blood cells.